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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on October 09, 2009, 04:15:21 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6730286
Oh my.
babsbunny (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-08-09 06:40 PM
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Frank pushing quick movement on credit card bill
http://portal.wowway.net/news/read.php?ps=1018&rip_id=%...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Barney Frank, the tough-talking liberal ushering through a major rewrite of rules governing Wall Street, sounded a warning shot on Thursday to big banks: Start playing nice or Congress will make your life even more difficult.
Last spring, Frank helped push a bill through Congress that imposes strict new rules on lenders, including a limitation on when and how banks hike rates. Most of the rules will take effect in mid-February, a date set by Congress to give banks time to prepare for the changes.
But the Massachusetts Democrat, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, said at a hearing on Thursday that lenders have abused the grace period by using the time to hike rates ahead of the new rules. He has introduced legislation that would move up the enactment date to Dec. 1.
Hmmm. I'm wondering about something. How come despite the new AP (Associated Press) rules, the primitives continue to put my fellow alum Skins into legal jeopardy by quoting AP stories?
monmouth (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-08-09 06:46 PM
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1. I hate that these guys give out their little warnings. They've been sufficiently warned and "playing nice" is not something they are familiar with. I hate to sound like an old hag here, but old LBJ and even Harry Truman would have warned once... Consequences to follow.
msongs (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-08-09 06:49 PM
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3. LBJ wasnt there to be loved instead of effective in moving his agenda
monmouth (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-08-09 06:53 PM
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5. And he knew how to get it done....
alstephenson (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-08-09 06:47 PM
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2. Thanks, Senator Frank.
We need to enact this legislation as soon as possible.
ccharles000 (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-08-09 06:50 PM
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4. he is in the house not the senate
alstephenson (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-09-09 04:58 PM
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10. Duh! Thanks - I know he's in the House, I just had a brain fart.
cutlassmama (862 posts) Thu Oct-08-09 07:08 PM
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6. We are lucky to have Frank in Congress looking out for us
Zenlitened (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-08-09 07:10 PM
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7. Let's get that barn door closed ASAP.
By the way, where'd all the horses go?
Deja Q (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-08-09 07:35 PM
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9. I think the horses went into the "economy grade beef" section at the grocer's...
DJ13 (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-08-09 07:33 PM
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8. Wake me when our party realizes its the interest rates that cause the problems
Anything else is just theater.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Barney Frank, the tough-talking liberal ushering through a major rewrite of rules governing Wall Street, sounded a warning shot on Thursday to big banks: Start playing nice or Congress will make your life even more difficult.
Yeah, we saw how well that worked for GM. Play by our rules and we'll **** you anyway.
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I thought Bawany was the pushee.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6730286
Oh my.
Hmmm. I'm wondering about something. How come despite the new AP (Associated Press) rules, the primitives continue to put my fellow alum Skins into legal jeopardy by quoting AP stories?
I read an AP article today about AP and Rupert Murdoch's news organizations. The gist I got was that they are concerned about the sites that use their material and also do so to make a profit. That's their main concern, sites that take their entire articles and don't link back to them. They lose out on the ad revenue generated by visitors to their own page.
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didn't they 'fix' the credit card thing last year?
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didn't they 'fix' the credit card thing last year?
Yes, that's why it's broken worse, now.
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I have a suggestion: DON'T LIVE ON CREDIT!!!!! A credit card is OK for durable goods but too many people use them to buy non-essentials.
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Yeah, we saw how well that worked for GM. Play by our rules and we'll **** you anyway.
Chrysler's bondholders also got a nice taste...
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...Rep. Barney Frank, the tough-talking liberal...
Sorry, nobody sounds tough with that lisp.
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The guy is one of the reasons we find ourselves in this sorry state! For cryin' out loud, when the Bush admin was trying to slow this shit down, it was Shnooker and friends that shut down reform!
Shmucky Shoomer is corruption incarnate! How in the hell he look himself in the mirror and then go out and tell Americans he's on their side................
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The guy is one of the reasons we find ourselves in this sorry state! For cryin' out loud, when the Bush admin was trying to slow this shit down, it was Shnooker and friends that shut down reform!
Shmucky Shoomer is corruption incarnate! How in the hell he look himself in the mirror and then go out and tell Americans he's on their side................
Unfortunately, he's got the support of too many in NYC. He'll likely keep his Senate seat this time around.
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Yeah, Saint, much to my chagrin. There's a boatload of people who can't stand the man, but there is nobody willing to go after that seat. They're eyeing Kirsten's of course.
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Yeah, Saint, much to my chagrin. There's a boatload of people who can't stand the man, but there is nobody willing to go after that seat. They're eyeing Kirsten's of course.
After she voted against defunding ACORN, she pretty much said, "I don't want to be in the Senate."