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    Whatever populist anger there is should rightfully be directed at the Bush administration and former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, DeLong says. "Had we wanted policies that transferred less taxpayer money to Wall Street, we should have had people other than George W. Bush and Henry Paulson sitting in the hot seats in the fall of 2008.... For Paulson, the game was to stop depressions without risking 'socialism' -- and minimizing the transfer from the federal Treasury to high finance was a second or a third-order concern for him." But when it comes to the big picture, the voters in the Hart Research survey quite accurately saw the way the world works: When everyone from bankers to laid-off assembly line workers line up for a hand from the feds, the bankers go to the head of the line. Full Article at Huffington Post
    Had we wanted policies that transferred less taxpayer money to Wall Street, we should have had people other than George W. Bush and Henry Paulson sitting in the hot seats in the fall of 2008.... For Paulson, the game was to stop depressions without risking 'socialism' -- and minimizing the transfer from the federal Treasury to high finance was a second or a third-order concern for him.
    SOURCE: Huffington Post 1 month ago
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  1. The economy fell off a cliff in 2008 and landed with a crash in the quarter of Obama's inauguration. Without the [government bailout] policies, we would have kept rolling down the hill, and right now would have a recession not twice, but about 1.7 times, as deep as the one we have.
    SOURCE: Huffington Post 1 month ago
  2. You can make an argument that everyone has been helped by the fact that the economy hasn't collapsed even more completely
    – James Galbraith SOURCE: Huffington Post 1 month ago
  3. In relative terms, the perceptions are dead-on: the big winners so far are the bailed-out bankers. Meanwhile on the jobs and housing front, things get worse
    SOURCE: Huffington Post 1 month ago
  4. now it's time for our banks to stand by creditworthy small businesses and make the loans they need to open their doors, grow their operations and create new jobs....It's time for those banks to fulfill their responsibility to help ensure a wider recovery, a more secure system and more broadly shared pro...
    SOURCE: Huffington Post 1 month ago
  5. has so far reached fewer than 3 percent of those targeted, with many struggling borrowers deciding that the benefits of a new loan aren't worth the closing costs.
    SOURCE: Huffington Post 1 month ago
  6. We acted boldly and we acted swiftly to pass a Recovery Act that's made a difference in the lives of families across America
    Barack Obama – Barack Obama SOURCE: Huffington Post 1 month ago

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