HI Dave,   
      
   On Fri 2012-Feb-10 09:27, Dave Drum (1:18/200) wrote to Richard Webb:   
      
    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.   
      
   DD> I do not suffer fools gladly. And after Ceppa went away that echo   
   DD> had an unfettered oversupply.   
      
   I delinked there as well.  I'm reading all-politics again,   
   but basically same trip.   
      
    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.   
      
   DD> We need some laws (enforceable and enforced) to curb the abuses of   
   DD> Wall Street. But, the truth is that the fat cats OWN the politicians   
   DD> who write those laws. Prospects of meaningful reform are vanishingly   
   DD> small.   
      
   Agreed, and therein lies the real problem.   
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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