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Uncle Fuck Stick Offer Upgrade User ID: 44601884 United States 08/04/2013 11:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.mitchellrepublic.com] The 1933 act aimed to curb the speculative investment excesses that led to the stock market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. The nation has apparently forgotten the lessons of that earlier time, said Robert Hockett, 62, of Pierre, who unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2002. "It's absolutely imperative that Glass-Steagall gets pushed through. It translates into saving the nation," Hockett said earlier this week. He believes a corrupt banking and investment system is "looting the population and killing Main Street." Hockett counts himself among a growing chorus calling for the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall. The legislation kept the banking and investment sectors out of each other's business until its repeal in 1999. The repeal was a mistake, said Hockett, who believes the law's repeal opened the door to rampant speculative trading that resulted in the 2007-2008 financial crisis and still threatens the economy. Speculative trading has created a market filled with worthless toxic assets that are bleeding taxpayers dry, he said. Hockett raised the same banking system red flags when he ran for governor in 2002, and he thinks the eventual financial crisis and recession validated his earlier warnings. "Banks have become nothing more than casinos, but they are betting with taxpayer money," he said. State Rep. Stace Nelson, R-Fulton, and Hockett are members of a loosely bound, bipartisan coalition favoring reinstatement of Glass-Steagall Nelson's signature was among those of present and past state lawmakers on a letter delivered this week to members of the Senate Banking Committee. Other signers include Sens.Tim Begalka, R-Clear Lake; Jim Bradford, D-Pine Ridge; Jason Frerichs, D-Wilmot; Ryan Maher, R-Isabel; Jeff Monroe, R-Pierre; and Reps. Dennis Feickert, D-Aberdeen; Kevin Killer, D-Pine Ridge; Dean Schrempp, D-Lantry; Betty Olson, R-Prairie City, and former lawmakers Frank Kloucek, Patty Miller and Lyndell Petersen. The letter urges the Banking Committee and committee chairman U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson, D- S.D. "to hold immediate emergency hearings on the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act." The letter cited Senate Concurrent Resolution 6 --passed in February by 83 percent of the combined houses of the South Dakota Legislature -- as its authority. SCR 6 urges Congress to "enact legislation that would reinstate the separation of commercial and investment banking functions that were in effect under the Glass-Steagall Act (Banking Act of 1933). That Act prohibited commercial banks and bank holding companies from investing in stocks, underwriting securities, or investing in or acting as guarantors to derivative transactions, in order to prevent American taxpayers from being called upon to fund hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out financial institutions." Nelson, who describes himself as a Republican with "a mean libertarian streak," said the state Legislature's resolution proves there's strong support for the Glass-Steagall legislation. "SCR 6 had overwhelming bipartisan support in both chambers," Nelson said. SCR 6 passed the state Senate 19-16 and passed the House 67-2. "South Dakotans, including myself, are not fans of the 'too big to fail' mentality," Nelson said. "A lot of people didn't like what happened when individuals and corporations who abused our financia More at link Last Edited by Uncle Fuck Stick on 08/04/2013 11:58 PM :4hlick: |
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