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August 28, 2009

Profiting While On the Taxpayer Teat

Filed under: Bank of America (BoA), Harvey Column — admin @ 5:37 pm

Hearing that the banks they bailed out are now “making a profit” is one of the insults taxpayers are reckoning with these days.

Bank of America recently announced $2.4 billion in second quarter profits – but still hasn’t paid back the $45 billion bailout money it got less than a year ago. Citigroup trumpeted $3 billion in profits while it too owes American taxpayers $45 billion. Continue reading “Profiting While On the Taxpayer Teat” »

August 26, 2009

The Summer of Our Discontent

Filed under: Harvey Column, Outrage — admin @ 7:15 pm

There’s been a lot of speculation that the Town Hall confrontations over health care reform have been generated by political operatives enlisted by politicians and other partisans who are in the pockets of the insurance and medical industries. Continue reading “The Summer of Our Discontent” »

August 18, 2009

Bank of America’s Ghosts

President Barack Obama won the election because he clearly articulated a more inclusive, smarter and more accountable vision of how government should function. People were tired of politicians who treated government as the enemy. They wanted somebody who could get it to work. Continue reading “Bank of America’s Ghosts” »

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