If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a day than wild animals that have to go out into the jungle and hunt for opportunities in order to eat.
Matt TaibbiIt may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.
Matt TaibbiThere is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
Matt TaibbiI mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.
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