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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 08:27 PM
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Charles Grassley on Banks: We Shouldn't Blame Greed Any More Than You'd Blame Gravity (VIDEO)
Video clip from MSNBC @ the URL below.

Charles Grassley: We Shouldn't Blame Greed Any More Than You'd Blame Gravity
By Heather Monday Jan 18, 2038 8:14pm

Charles Grassley is starting to sound as incoherent during his television interviews as he does in his Tweets. Grassley doesn't think we need more regulation. We just need more transparency. Yeah, that's going to make the finace companies behave. And when asked if the banks are in any position to protest if they're not going to make as much money, Grassley comes back with this:

Greed is human nature. We shouldn't blame greed any more than you'd blame gravity when a plane has an accident and goes down.


I'm sorry Senator, but I think we can blame greed for the mess we're in. Greed and the unwillingness of the government to put a check on it.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/charles-grassley-we-shouldnt-blame-greed-any
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 08:36 PM
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1. "I'm not very anxious to move into the area of the federal government being involved in insurance."
Like the, um Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation? :rofl:
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 08:45 PM
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2. Charles Grassley is Gordon Gecko? n/t
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 08:56 PM
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3. Yeah, except I easily made it through 2 hours of "Wall Street," but...
...near the end of 10 minutes of Charles Grassley, I felt my brain going all goofy and stuff.

:rofl:
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