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Re: Republicans urge Obama to pick a more business-friendly successor to Larry Summers
Maybe Phil Gramm?Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -Groucho -
Re: Republicans urge Obama to pick a more business-friendly successor to Larry Summers
Apparently everybody is playing their part in this hall-of-mirrors exercise in covering up what's transpired.Comment
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Re: Republicans urge Obama to pick a more business-friendly successor to Larry Summers
Yup. Or maybe John Stossel.Originally posted by Master Shake View PostComment
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Re: Republicans urge Obama to pick a more business-friendly successor to Larry Summers
Every "elected" African President hand picks his successor. Is that because they want to pull a Putin and continue to exercise power from the retirement dacha? In part...but the really important thing is to make sure the guy coming after them won't start an investigation into the corruption that enriched their predecessor.Originally posted by don View Post
How long before the USA starts looking like Nigeria...without the oil?Comment
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Re: Republicans urge Obama to pick a more business-friendly successor to Larry Summers
We (the USA) are already there, in a way ... Nigeria with American characteristics.Originally posted by GRG55 View Post
Notice how all the Presidents seem to belong to a "good 'ol boys club?" They reliably avoid investigating any misconduct by their predecessors.
What we have in America is not individualized corruption such as in Nigeria (*), but institutionalized corruption. The institution perpetuates this corruption in part by ensuring that only "reliable" people gain positions of power, meaning people who can be reliably counted on not to expose too much of the corruption of the past, and ongoing in the present.
(*) I don't actually know diddly squat about Nigerian politics. I just use that example because GRG55 did, and trust that his snarky comment about Nigerian politics is somehow accurate.Most folks are good; a few aren't.Comment
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Re: Republicans urge Obama to pick a more business-friendly successor to Larry Summers
Originally posted by Munger View Post
Ken Lay would be a good choice. Too bad he's dead.Comment
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Re: Republicans urge Obama to pick a more business-friendly successor to Larry Summers
Not Carter. I think he's been blacklisted.Originally posted by ThePythonicCow View PostComment
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Re: Republicans urge Obama to pick a more business-friendly successor to Larry Summers
Bernard Ebbers -- totally business friendly -- Obama can pull a Clinton, and give him a total pardon before, or maybe after appointing him!Originally posted by BigBagel View PostComment
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Re: Republicans urge Obama to pick a more business-friendly successor to Larry Summers
He will top them and appoint a FIRE friendly successor. Just like the republicans would if they would be in power...Originally posted by Munger View PostComment
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Re: Republicans urge Obama to pick a more business-friendly successor to Larry Summers
Goddess! I swear sometimes I just shake my head.... I scarcely recognize this nation as the one I grew up in and I am not that old!
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