Warren tells the controversial truth: Fighting the banks, protecting the consumer

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Commentary: Fighting the banks, protecting the consumer
AL LEWIS
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/warren-tells-the-controversial-truth-2011-04-22?link=MW_home_latest_news

Certain members of Congress keep trying to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau before it is born, but so far they’re losing to a former Sunday school teacher.

“I am not going down on this agency without a fight,” Elizabeth Warren said earlier this month at a Society of American Business Writers and Editors meeting in Dallas. “It is a fight worth having.”

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“I wish I could say that this was a story of people who went to the mall and bought too many Game Boys,” she told me at the time. “A broken health-care system is bankrupting middle-class America — and neither the insurance companies, nor the credit industry, nor Congress wants to admit that.”

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She endures in her stand against the hollowing out of the middle class at a time when few others dare to acknowledge the cause.

[midnight]

1. Crap... You just knew when she was begging for some real tools to do her job, that she was going to

have to do the whole damn thing without a lick of help... What a waste of this wonderfully capable person's time and talents.... I'm still with Elizabeth Warren.... Now either help her or get out of her way....

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2. Just her being there is the first victory.