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Capitalism's Latest Champion: Alec Baldwin?
« on: October 21, 2011, 09:00:15 AM »
Alec Baldwin visited the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City this week, where he found himself defending the very institutions the demonstrators are protesting: Banks, capitalism and the rich.

"You have to have capital markets in this country," Baldwin said. "You can't not have strong capital markets in this country or this country is going to go down the tubes. ... Capitalism is worthwhile and capitalism demands the flow of money. ... You want the banks to do what the banks do."

Baldwin said he wouldn't answer any questions, but quickly got into a discussion with a group of Ron Paul supporters who grilled him on the Federal Reserve.

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Re: Capitalism's Latest Champion: Alec Baldwin?
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2011, 11:20:48 AM »
I have a hard time wanting to listen to anything 'ol Alec says, especially concerning this subject, but he is a proponent of crony-capitalism, it's just the non-liberal capitalists he loathes...
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Re: Capitalism's Latest Champion: Alec Baldwin?
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2011, 11:24:35 AM »
Quote from: Libertas on October 21, 2011, 11:20:48 AM
I have a hard time wanting to listen to anything 'ol Alec says, especially concerning this subject, but he is a proponent of crony-capitalism, it's just the non-liberal capitalists he loathes...

I think that's pretty much it
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Re: Capitalism's Latest Champion: Alec Baldwin?
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2011, 11:29:33 AM »
Too late.  Already closed my ING Direct account.
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Re: Capitalism's Latest Champion: Alec Baldwin?
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2011, 04:54:24 PM »
I'm still waiting for him to leave the country since Bush won the election.
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