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Credit card "reform"
Gun rights bill attached
RobVG
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5/19/2009 8:26:36 PM
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Is this anyway to write law?
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Credit card "reform"
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TB
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5/19/2009 5:21:59 PM
Why stop at credit cards?
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ER
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5/21/2009 2:17:03 AM
Indeed
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Robert
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5/22/2009 1:46:00 AM
Thanks for the corroborating information, from an insider perspective.
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ER
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5/22/2009 2:48:43 PM
re: Indeed
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TB
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5/22/2009 3:39:33 AM
Yep - corrupt to that core. "The core assumption seems to be that the private sector is corrupt- - -"
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Bowser
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5/22/2009 5:01:02 AM
re: Yep - corrupt to that core. "The core assumption seems to be that the private sector is corrupt- - -"
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Robert
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5/22/2009 5:24:00 AM
Have you ever heard of 'checks and balances'?
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Robert
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5/22/2009 4:44:13 AM
'checks and balances'
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TB
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5/22/2009 2:34:31 PM
Collusion, price fixing by CC companies?
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Buck Galaxy
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5/20/2009 3:28:44 PM
Any sympathy for those who have no alternative but to use their credit cards
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z
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5/20/2009 11:47:23 AM
How is that relevant?
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TB
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5/20/2009 6:40:10 PM
Let me know when you "get it"
(n/t)
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Lindy
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5/20/2009 11:05:22 PM
re: Let me know when you "get it"
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TB
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5/20/2009 11:19:22 PM
Now I get it.
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ER
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5/21/2009 1:11:36 AM
Okay.
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TB
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5/21/2009 3:37:11 AM
Changing the subject again?
(n/t)
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ER
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5/21/2009 10:22:05 AM
No, I was making a point
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TB
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5/21/2009 4:44:13 PM
So was I.
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ER
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5/21/2009 5:14:26 PM
re: So was I.
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TB
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5/21/2009 5:42:18 PM
No.
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ER
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5/21/2009 5:54:46 PM
re: No.
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TB
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5/21/2009 6:27:07 PM
This is getting really tiresome.
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ER
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5/21/2009 7:36:50 PM
So the banks are gonna pout?
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Bowser
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5/20/2009 4:28:30 AM
And let's not forget the merchants,
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ER
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5/20/2009 2:51:49 PM
Gun rights bill attached
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RobVG
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5/19/2009 8:26:36 PM
Oh yeah, that's terrible.
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RobVG
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5/19/2009 6:34:18 PM
I don't understand why...
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ER
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5/19/2009 6:32:56 PM
Who, the competent?
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TB
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5/19/2009 8:18:58 PM
No, the usurers
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ER
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5/19/2009 8:37:45 PM
Maybe I wasn't clear.
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TB
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5/19/2009 8:50:58 PM
I like my credit cards too.
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ER
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5/19/2009 10:24:36 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.