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Elizabeth Warren to Dems: Kill the bill - Seung Min Kim - POLITICO
I expect both left and right to fight against this type of economic nonsense that allows the worst players to raid the American taxpayers.
“Now, the House of Representatives is about to show us the worst of government for the rich and powerful,” she continued. “The House is about to vote on a budget deal, a deal negotiated behind closed doors that slips in a provision that would let derivatives traders on Wall Street gamble with taxpayer money and get bailed out by the government when their risky bets threaten to blow up our financial system.”She acknowledged that bipartisan House and Senate negotiators have worked “long and hard” on the spending bill, and that Senate leadership “deserve great credit for preventing the House from carrying out some of their more aggressive … fantasies about dismantling even more pieces of financial reform.”
I expect both left and right to fight against this type of economic nonsense that allows the worst players to raid the American taxpayers.