1.0 link 144509 <![CDATA[Bridge Loan to Nowhere or Bridge Loan to the 21st Century?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randi-rhodes/bridge-loan-to-nowhere-or_b_144509.html In every crisis there is opportunity. That lesson has been well-learned by all the wrong people over the past eight years.

American defense contractors like Blackwater, Triple Canopy and DynCorp made obscene profits in the chaos created by Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld in Iraq. Imagine their armored Humvees pulling up to Treasury every month for billions of our tax dollars.

The banks have their getaway armored truck parked at the side door of Treasury right now. They've only been able...

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