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Obama say what? Compares Big Banks, AIG, to Suicide Bombers
ABC News
March 18, 2009 10:46 PM
At his town hall meeting in Costa Mesa, Calif., Wednesday evening, President Obama compared embattled insurer AIG and other large failing banks to a suicide bomber.
"A lot of people say, 'Well, why not just let the banks fail?'" the president said. "'Why don't we just let them fail, let them go bankrupt, what's the problem?'"
~Snip~
Bigger banks, however, "Citicorp or Bank of America or, you know, Wells Fargo that controls 70 percent of the banking system, and all of them are weakening, you can't afford to have all those banks all at once start going under. Even though the deposits might be guaranteed, you've got the entire economy resting on that credit."
The president said, "It was the right thing to do, even though it's infuriating, even though it makes you angry because you're thinking, 'I was responsible and these folks are irresponsible and somehow I'm paying for them.' The same is true with AIG. It was the right thing to do to step in."
"Here's the problem," Mr. Obama said, "It's almost like they've got -- they've got a bomb strapped to them and they've got their hand on the trigger. You don't want them to blow up. But you've got to kind of talk them, ease that finger off the trigger."
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d59_1237530013#y0RAIDE2IUuTvDWc.99
ABC News
March 18, 2009 10:46 PM
At his town hall meeting in Costa Mesa, Calif., Wednesday evening, President Obama compared embattled insurer AIG and other large failing banks to a suicide bomber.
"A lot of people say, 'Well, why not just let the banks fail?'" the president said. "'Why don't we just let them fail, let them go bankrupt, what's the problem?'"
~Snip~
Bigger banks, however, "Citicorp or Bank of America or, you know, Wells Fargo that controls 70 percent of the banking system, and all of them are weakening, you can't afford to have all those banks all at once start going under. Even though the deposits might be guaranteed, you've got the entire economy resting on that credit."
The president said, "It was the right thing to do, even though it's infuriating, even though it makes you angry because you're thinking, 'I was responsible and these folks are irresponsible and somehow I'm paying for them.' The same is true with AIG. It was the right thing to do to step in."
"Here's the problem," Mr. Obama said, "It's almost like they've got -- they've got a bomb strapped to them and they've got their hand on the trigger. You don't want them to blow up. But you've got to kind of talk them, ease that finger off the trigger."
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d59_1237530013#y0RAIDE2IUuTvDWc.99
Here's the video. The statement starts at around the 4:30 mark:
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Obama say what? Compares Big Banks, AIG, to Suicide Bombers (2009) (Original Post)
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Nov 2015
OP
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)1. Call them what they really are.
"You will know them by their deeds."
Truprogressive85
(900 posts)2. wow
Thats the Obama I knew
Where did he go
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)3. We all wonder that.