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Wall Street Visits Washington, the Grand Bargain Returns and Other Tales from the Kidnap House
… The heads of the country’s largest banks and stock brokers came to Washington, D.C., yesterday to meet with President Barack Obama. Washington is the center of our national hostage drama—to … incentives for sending jobs overseas. But it gets even worse. The spending cuts side of the Grand Bargain is again aimed right at the key institutions that provide economic security for working Americans—Social Security and Medicare. The single … Republicans take the country hostage—closing our government, our museums, our parks, laying off people who do critical work we all depend on, from weather forecasting to protecting our rights on the job. Then Wall Street and the pundits they …