Re: The FCIC falls apart

"Peter T. Chattaway" <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.music.dadl.ot
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On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Lance McLain wrote:

>>> Last Wednesday, just hours after securing the position of chairman of 
>>> the House Financial Services Committee, Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., told 
>>> the Birmingham News that "in Washington, the view is that the banks 
>>> are to be regulated, and my view is that Washington and the regulators 
>>> are there to serve the banks." 
>>> http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2010/12/15/the_fabulous_bankers_boys_from_alabama
>> 
>> And that's kinda like saying they're there to serve the people, yes? 
>> Yes? :/
>
> uh....no.  In what possible way could that ever be the case?

Just following the right-leaning rhetoric regarding who serves who.  Does 
X serve the government or does the government serve X?  If you think it 
doesn't make a difference who "X" represents, well, then ...

> Who owns the banks?

Private citizens, rather than public institutions.  In theory.

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