-=> Richard Webb wrote to Dave Drum <=-   
      
    RW> First, glad to see you still among us.  Hadn't seen you   
    RW> posting anywhere since you bailed on pol_inc a few months   
    RW> back.   
      
   I do not suffer fools gladly. And after Ceppa went away that echo had an   
   unfettered oversupply.   
       
    BK>  I do not consider balanced budgets all that great an idea, I am   
    BK>  just pointing out how the republican ideal was achieved only   
    BK>  under Clinton after 1969. Which, BTW, was LBJ's last budget, we   
    BK>  are talking fiscal years, not calendar years.   
      
    RW> AS for Wall Street, forget Wall Street, they've got their   
    RW> too big to fail happening when it comes to sticking their   
    RW> hands in our wallets after they screw it up.  Their version   
    RW> of the casino does alright even if the economy goes down the toilet for   
    RW> the rest of us.  Especially with average folks to bail their butts out.   
      
   We need some laws (enforceable and enforced) to curb the abuses of Wall   
   Street. But, the truth is that the fat cats OWN the politicians who write   
   those laws. Prospects of meaningful reform are vanishingly small.   
      
   ... GOP 2012: Keeping millions out of work to put one man out of a job.   
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