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Barney Frank, a primary architect of our financial ruin, talks about having banks pay for “their mistakes”:
"Look, the financial institutions collectively, particularly the larger ones, caused problems by their errors – their errors of judgment, their irresponsibility, in some cases their skating around dishonesty," said House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass.
That’s rich coming from the man who purposely put in place the private profit, public loss, system the banks operated in.
Frankly, I’m starting to place Massachusetts in the same category as Vermont – as states I’d gladly pay money to Canada to take. It would be cheaper than letting them continue to elect radicals that frolic with our wallets.
January 14th, 2010 at 10:55 am
Unfortunately for any wish to dispense with Massachusetts, the Constitution has no provision for removal or sale of a state.
Note also that Massachusetts was one of the founding states and the one that probably had the most influence in driving the independence that created the United States. Started as a religiously intolerant colony, sparking the independence movement with mob action that recently became the inspiration for the populist Tea Parties, contributed fighting men and abolitionists to the Union in the Civil War, passed through hard conservatism “The land of the bean and the cod/ Where the Cabots speak only to Lodges/ And the Lodges speak only to God,” and emerged most recently as “liberal” led for many years by one its richest families. A long and distinctive history that some residents of late-comer Utah would throw on the trash heap in a proposition to sell the state to another country. That seems a revisiting of the 18th century attitude of King George III who conversely sent an army and navy to keep Massachusetts in the fold. Were it not for Massachusetts, there would be no Utah.
January 14th, 2010 at 11:07 am
Constitution smonstitution. They ignore it all the time, I’ll ignore it just this once.
January 14th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Frank should know about bad judgement and irresponsibility- he’s the guy who let his gay lover run an escort service out of his aprtment, isn’t he?