Reply With QuoteBourbon (04-23-2018)
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"GOP split as banks take on gun industry"
"Major banks are cutting off business with the gun industry, roiling Republicans who want to respect the financial decisions of private institutions while still showing their unyielding support of the Second Amendment."
"Some Republicans, enraged at moves by Citigroup and Bank of America to distance themselves from some retailers and gun manufacturers, have called on government agencies to cancel contracts with the banks and defer deregulation proposals that would benefit them. But other Republicans want to keep their hands off, saying lenders are free to decide who they do business with."
"Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, who has asked an expanding list of federal and state officials to cut off the banks from government contracts. He has also discouraged Republican leadership from taking up regulatory rollbacks that would benefit banks’ trading operations. He has also suggested that Citi might be running afoul of federal, state and local laws."
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...p-split-544739
Looks like we got a conundrum for the gun loving conservatives, do they support employing the Gov't to pressure banks into doing business with the gun industry, or, do they support capitalism's tenent of free enterprise without Gov't interference?
Does show one phenomena not possible even five years ago, it isn't the political sphere that are forcing recognition of a gun problem in America but rather economic and social currents are highlighting the realities. The NRA has to really really hate those high school kids from Florida
Bourbon (04-23-2018)
Oh, hi
I thought liberals claim Republicans walk in lock step. Also, don't you guys support "boycotts"?
And what is your basis that the left's boogeyman NRA hates those kids?
Truth Detector (04-23-2018)
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Don't know anything about the "lock step" whatever, but this certainly puts a gun loving conservative in a difficult position, well, that's if they actually believe all the stuff they tell us makes them a conservativeOriginally Posted by Yaya
And "basis that the NRA hates those kids," easy, already told you, "it isn't the political sphere that are forcing recognition of a gun problem in America but rather economic and social currents," events and forces outside of the political sphere beyond the control or influence of the NRA
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I thought you supported less regulation and a "hands off" policy toward business, or does that only happen when it works in your favor.
Verified User
While I appreciate anybody sticking it to the NRA, I don't agree with banks blacklisting legal enterprise, regardless of what it is.
rebel
fuck those banks. this is why the fed should be audited and any bank that wants to discriminate against legal enterprises should have their ability to operate in the USA removed.
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
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So now we know "smarty pants" doesn't believe in free enterprise nor laissez faire, I think that would make him a Socialist, imagine that
Leonthecat (04-23-2018)
Truthmatters
the NRA is being investigated by the FBI for taking Russian money
rebel
free enterprise is great. discrimination is not......or should bakers be allowed to deny making wedding cakes for certain couples now?
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
Truthmatters
Truthmatters
move if you don't like the constitution protecting Americans
rebel
bite my ass, krispy kreme
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
Verified User
They are not blacklisting, they'd just rather not do business with them, and you can't say they are depriving any individual of their rights as a citizen - (anticipating the next conservative exchange)
rebel
you don't have a clue about the constitution, except to use it as a weapon against those you hate, racist
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
rebel
and there was a baker that didn't want to do business with a certain couple. how is that NOT the same?
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
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