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You know what they say -- half a million dollars just doesn't go as far as it used to

By Michael Winship

"These guys won't be happy until the government agrees to relieve them of every last one of their lousy loans and investments at inflated prices, recapitalize every major bank and brokerage and insurance company on sweetheart terms and restore them to the glory days, so they can once again earn inflated profits and obscene pay packages by screwing over their customers and their shareholders."

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21993.htm



Looting Social Security

By William Greider

To understand the mechanics of this attempted swindle, you have to roll back twenty-five years, to the time the game of bait and switch began, under Ronald Reagan.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21991.htm



It's Going to Take a Civic Jolt

By Ralph Nader

Some staffers in Congress privately assert that the Democrats are not acting like a majority party. It is worse than that. They are not acting-period.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21994.htm



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