The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

innerSpaceman · 09-18-2009, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by scaeagles

Well, hopefully they aren't funding those banks. Right now all that is happening is removing the funding from ACORN, which I think is appropriate.

Not funding those banks?!?!? How would you define handing them $750 billion dollars such that they have gone from brim-of-bankruptcy to healthily-profitable? Is that not "funding?" It's not grants, yeah. But it was voted by Congress just the same.

scaeagles · 09-18-2009, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Not funding those banks?!?!? How would you define handing them $750 billion dollars such that they have gone from brim-of-bankruptcy to healthily-profitable? Is that not "funding?" It's not grants, yeah. But it was voted by Congress just the same.

Well, crap, yeah. I'm with you on that one. Brain fart. I think once a corporation accepts that kind of help from the government then they need to submit to whatever as the price they pay.