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This is what comes of taxpayer
bailouts. Billions of dollars shipped overseas to foreign banks to make them whole. Hundreds of millions of dollars paid out as bonuses to the very executives who helped create the financial crisis. Cronyism and corporate favoritism is on a scale unseen at any time in our country or any county's history.
Why is it the regular everyday U.S. citizen knew what a lousy idea bailouts were, whether called TAKP or by any other name, and a majority of our elected officials didn't? And why was it that in the late summer and fall of'08, when these bailouts started, our elected representatives continued to ignore the people, even when their
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