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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Sat Nov 16, 2013, 08:58 AM Nov 2013

Could the US be heading towards an Elizabethan era?


by Simon Carswell

There is a popular video on YouTube, viewed more than one million times, showing a group of hapless financial regulators squirming under questioning by Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren.

At her first congressional banking committee hearing in February since winning a Senate seat last year, Warren grilled big-bank regulators on why they had never taken a Wall Street giant to court.

“There are districts attorneys and US attorneys who are out there every day squeezing ordinary citizens on sometimes very thin grounds and taking them to trial in order to make an example, as they put it,” she told them. “I am really concerned that too big to fail has become too big for trial.”

The Democratic senator’s attacks on the recovering influence of Wall Street, surging student debt, consumer protection and the deepening divide between the rich and working classes in the US have invigorated the party’s core supporters and raised hopes that she might run for president in 2016.

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http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/could-the-us-be-heading-towards-an-elizabethan-era-1.1596727
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Could the US be heading towards an Elizabethan era? (Original Post) n2doc Nov 2013 OP
An Elizabethan Era, JimboBillyBubbaBob Nov 2013 #1
That difficult woman will be the death of us MannyGoldstein Nov 2013 #2
Ha Ha... I'm the blue14u Nov 2013 #3
Hehe. Laelth Nov 2013 #5
Count me in. Scuba Nov 2013 #4

blue14u

(575 posts)
3. Ha Ha... I'm the
Sun Nov 17, 2013, 02:37 AM
Nov 2013

ready for Elizabeth crowd!!!!

We still have hope and can win with Elizabeth Warren 2016!!!

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
5. Hehe.
Mon Nov 18, 2013, 09:01 AM
Nov 2013

I'm pretty sure Elizabeth Warren isn't lethal, but I suppose she may cause corporate Democrats some discomfort.

If so, GOOD.



-Laelth

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