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Marcy Kaptur: Excellent analogy. They created rules by which only they could win, and that doesn't seem to me to be the spirit of free…

On the recordApril 28, 2010
Excellent analogy. They created rules by which only they could win, and that doesn't seem to me to be the spirit of free enterprise. They created so much collateral damage it brought down the economy of the whole country. They keep using the argument if we didn't have the TARP, then things would have really gone wrong. I thought, How could it be worse? How could it be worse than this? Is what they did with the TARP just bailing themselves out, because they certainly have not done anything for the American people. They have thrown all of the bills of all of their mistakes on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA, all of the instrumentalities of the United States for decades to come. They didn't take any losses on those themselves. They were enriched by the taxpayers of the United States who lifted them right up. And they are not dealing with the damage across this country where foreclosures continue to go up. I place on the Record the names of the six companies that now hold two-thirds of the wealth of this Nation, and they are Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo. They have enriched themselves handsomely.
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Marcy Kaptur
Democratic · Ohio
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Apr 28, 2010

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Kaptur criticizes the impact of TARP and the concentration of wealth among major financial institutions.

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