"We paid for this instead of a generation……" — Matt Taibbi
"We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways. With the $13-plus trillion we are estimated to ultimately spend on the bailouts, we could not only have bought and paid off every single sub-prime mortgage in the country (that would only have cost $1.4 trillion), we could have paid off every remaining mortgage of any kind in this country - and still have had enough money left over to buy a new house for every American who does not already have one."
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108 Quotes by Matt Taibbi
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Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and…
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