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Originally Posted by Derwood
It's not 30 years of Republican domination in Congress. It's 30 years of a conservative (nee neo-liberal) economic construct that we've been living under.
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I'm sorry, what? fiscally conservative democrats during the reagan years is now considered neo-liberalism?
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Originally Posted by dc_dux
We'll see how many of the sponsoring organizations and tea-parrty goers support the regulatory overhaul that Obama is expected to announce this week.
Including tighter regulation of hedge funds, credit default swaps and other related financial instruments that helped bring about the financial crisis....or tighter federal standards for mortgage lenders and tougher enforcement of mortgage regulations....or more transparency in executive compensation of publicly traded companies.
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things like the republicans posed to the democrats a couple of years ago? why now and not back then?
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