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Sorry!

Posted by tinear (A) on November 17, 2020 at 16:39:49

In Reply to: Ex-wife. Ahem. posted by ghost of olddude55 on November 17, 2020 at 15:01:16:

"There are all sorts of reasons why the department might have been timid — going up against banks' well-funded legal defense teams would be tough, particularly when trying to prove wrongdoing to a jury in the byzantine world of finance, says James Angel, associate professor at the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business. In an article in the July/August edition of Politico Magazine, Glenn Thrush writes that a test criminal case against bankers ended in an acquittal, which scared Holder away from actual prosecution against individual bankers.

In addition, the Justice Department simply had a lot of other things on its plate in the last few years: terrorism and voting rights, for example. But if the Obama DOJ simply doesn't have the manpower to handle all of the problems thrown at it, that may signal that it's time for a new structure, says one expert.

"Now, one can argue that going after terrorists, drug dealers, narco lords, and child pornographers is a higher priority, and I agree with that, but at least say so," says Angel. "What this whole mess points out is that we need a separate law enforcement agency that won't get distracted by other seemingly more important things." Vox

Obama did establish a special fraud investigation/prosecution authority.

And Bank of America and others did have massive fines leveled against them that they paid. 17 billion in the case of B of A. That's BILLION.

I hope you're kidding about Obamacare. You do know tens of millions more Americans got coverage? Or don't you care? Pre-existing conditions were covered--- don't you care. You'll brush these off, but
they're huge.

Oil: you couldn't be more wrong. Just plain wrong. Where do you get your news? "Mr. Obama also promoted policies designed to curb fossil-fuel usage and production, including the Clean Power Plan; the federal methane rule; federal restrictions on hydraulic fracturing; the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, and the Paris climate accord." apnews.com

I could go on and on but it's obvious you've got this equation cemented in.

W: totally botched Katrina, began a war, rolled back environmental protections, etc.

In politics, there are no absolutes. It's all COMPARATIVE.

Religion and government: huge differences in the parties. Or are you okay with a plurality of one smallish religion on the SCOTUS? Public funding of religious schools? How about women not being able to decide how large their families will be?

People are more divided than ever and you think they're essentially the same? Your denial makes a certain orange-haired guy's look normal :0_

One last point, farm subsidies: "From 2010 through 2017, direct government payments to farmers averaged about $11 billion a year. By the end of this year, those payments are likely to hit nearly $20 billion.

Or consider this:" In 2013, direct government payments and federal crop insurance benefits made up 20% of U.S. farmers' profits. This year, they'll total about 34% as revenues from actual sales drops." Detroit news

COMPARATIVE. If double doesn't resonate with you...

Politics ain't "my way or the highway." Change is incremental.

Last thing: voting rights act. Dems are for it. Repubs won't support it.

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