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Old 09-25-2008, 08:56 AM
 
Location: Charlotte
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"We cannot allow taxpayers to take on this burden so that Wall Street and the Bush administration can hit the "reset button."

This historic intervention demands a historic shift in priorities: an end to the broken culture on Wall Street, and the broken economic policies in Washington.

Corporations that will benefit must be held accountable, not only to large shareholders but also to the American people, who are rightly tired of business as usual: short-term profit at the expense of long-term viability; lax oversight and regulation; obscene bonuses and golden parachutes regardless of performance; reckless risk-taking that has placed the markets in jeopardy; rewards for foreclosing on middle-class families and selling mortgages designed to fail; and outsourcing good jobs to serve short-term stock prices instead of America's long-term economic health."
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As was established throughout the primaries, Senator Clinton and Senator Obama appear to continue to be on the same page.
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