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I did but I thought that it was focusing on a one-of remark in many, many hours of congressional testimony designed to prevent a mob with pitchforks and torches storming wall street.

I just don't see this as something that will be policy, but I guess I could be wrong and too trusting of the Obama administration.

> congressional testimony designed to prevent a mob with pitchforks and torches storming wall street.

The job of a community activist is to rile up a mob, or threaten same, and use that threat to extract concessions.

Remember the AIG bonus scandal? The bonuses that Congress approved, the approval that Obama specifically approved for folks who were cleaning up AIG? (Wall-street often uses back-loaded contracts, so they're not really bonuses, but I digress.) The bonuses that Congress and the president then used to bash AIG and wall street?

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