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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Walmart, for Victory! [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)49. Stating the facts isn't ''bashing.''
As a US Senator, Phil Gramm led the charge to repeal Glass Steagall.
As President Bill Clinton signed the repeal of Glass Steagall into law.
After leaving office, Phil Gramm took the job as vice chair of UBS, a Swiss bank notorious for all manner of crime.
After the banks went belly up on derivatives in 2008, the US taxpayer was on the hook.
UBS in the bailout got billions, courtesy of the US taxpayer.
Today, Phil Gramm, Bill Clinton and George W Bush work in Wealth Management at UBS.
Maybe you got yours, Tarc, I don't know, but I don't like it when people cash in on their government service, especially when me and my fellow US taxpayers are on the hook for their looted trillions.
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What is destroying this country is people looking the other way when they are confronted with the
insta8er
Jun 2016
#42
It's not walmarts job to raise the minimum wage, it's Congress. Congress knows underpaid americans
Sunlei
Jun 2016
#19
Time form e to leave this cesspool, where progressives have become an endangered species.
zonkers
Jun 2016
#60
That is an interesting question. I wonder if those on their Board of Directors knows the answer?
Octafish
Jun 2016
#6
K&R-lay down and take a snooze then MM, here's a tune for everyone that's "tired"
bobthedrummer
Jun 2016
#14
Actually that stupid Henry Ford quote is bullshit- He paid $5 a day so the didn't quit
snooper2
Jun 2016
#27
Don't forget, it costs the local community about a million dollars a year for each
pdsimdars
Jun 2016
#48