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They forgot about us

A $700 billion bank rescue plan has turned into a bank buyout plan of banks that are not in trouble. The banks that are not in trouble will be able to buy assets of the failing banks for pennies on the dollar and grow richer while mortgages will continue to fail and retirement funds will continue to disappear. The population still has no money to buy products or services. Why can't people see this for the rip off that it is? The one thing that was designed to protect the middle class, the Constitution, has been trashed.

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Web Smith of CA @ Oct 15, 2008 18:43:24 PM

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