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To: Libloather
After the financial crisis, President Obama knew that we had to clean up Wall Street. For years, families had been tricked by credit cards, fooled by student loans and cheated on mortgages. I had an idea for a consumer financial protection agency to stop the rip-offs. The big banks sure didn't like it, and they marshaled one of the biggest lobbying forces on earth to destroy the agency before it ever saw the light of day

American families didn't have an army of lobbyists on our side, but what we had was a president -- President Obama leading the way. And when the lobbyists were closing in for the kill, Barack Obama squared his shoulders, planted his feet, and stood firm. And that's how we won.

~Elizabeth Warren

8 posted on 09/15/2012 4:11:47 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

and universities were tricked by unscrupulous liars that tried to pawn themselves off as having a minority heritage to rip off taxpayers.

blessings, bobo


11 posted on 09/15/2012 4:47:43 PM PDT by bobo1
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