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To: i-node who wrote (38476)	2/5/2013 5:30:18 AM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Guest Post: It’s About Time - JP Morgan To Enter The Housing Slumlord Trade Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/04/2013 - 18:02It was just a matter of time before the most powerful crony capitalist bank in America decided to join the housing trade. Making money running the food stamp program just wasn’t enough for Your Crony Highness Jamie Dimon and company, it’s time to join his financial oligarch brothers in the bidding war to corner the housing market and become your overlord. That way they can control how you eat (food stamps) and where you sleep. It’s become very clear what the large financial interests in these United States are attempting. Funnel all the low interest crony American money, with a dash of Chinese laundered money, into the “housing recovery.” ... Full article here.

To: i-node who wrote (38476)	2/5/2013 2:41:29 PM
From: FJB	Respond to of 85487

Last March the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee estimated that Obamacare would increase unfunded obligations — or federal spending without a dedicated funding source — for federal health care programs by $17 trillion over 75 years, or from $65 trillion to $82 trillion. Adding currently illegal immigrants, via a pathway to citizenship or other means, to Obamacare would further increase those unfunded obligations by another $2 trillion, based on their calculations. Read more: dailycaller.com

To: i-node who wrote (38476)	2/11/2013 2:14:55 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

There are only 2 things out of control in this country... corporations and a few people in Washington doing their best to destroy democracy itself. It's the usual cast of characters, as I'm sure you can guess, and they are actually self-deluded puppets used by the corps and assorted other pirates, so maybe only one thing is really out of control. Most conspiracy theories are incredible because they presuppose that the conspirators can keep a secret. The truth is the more people involved the less likely that the conspiracy will remain secret. In the GOP inauguration night conspiracy, somebody talked. And Robert Draper reported it in his book “Do Not Ask What Good We Do.” According to Draper, on January 20, 2009 – inauguration night – Frank Luntz, a GOP communications expert, organized a dinner with GOP members of both the House of Representatives and of the Senate. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and journalist Fred Barnes also attended the dinner. Representatives Cantor, McCarthy, Ryan, Session, Hensarling, Hoekstra, and Lungren were there. Senators DeMint, Kyl, Coburn, Ensign, and Corker were present. tikkun.org