Talking to Elizabeth Warren

[Crewleader]

April 30 - May 2, 2010

"Bankruptcy is a Case in Which Literally, the Lobbyists Wrote the Bill"

Talking to Elizabeth Warren

By HARRY KREISLER

Elizabeth Warren was born in Oklahoma in 1949, professes law at Harvard Law School and is currently chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel to investigate the banking bailout, formally known as the Troubled Assets Relief Program. She’s also the prime advocate for the creation of a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency, which Congress is now considering, but which may well be suffocated in the embrace of the Federal Reserve. Warren's has been cited as among names being considered as Supreme Court nominees to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.and in the opinion of the editors of CounterPunch would be the best choice. AC/JSC

Kreisler: Where were you born and raised?

Elizabeth Warren: Born and raised in Oklahoma.

http://www.counterpunch.org/kreisler04302010.html

[Bigmack]

1. I love her....

seriously... I love her.

Smart.... hell, brilliant... pretty... she's got it all.

I can't decide whether she should be president or just Sec Treasury.... or head of the FED.

[Kat45]

2. Great insights from Elizabeth Warren, as always.

Thanks for posting this. It should be required reading.

[chill_wind]

3. "Contrary". I enjoyed this personal insight:

"Partly my mother always said that I was just contrary, that some kids are just born that way. Families tell stories, and those stories both reflect what the children are and shape what the children become. The story that was always told is that when I was about two and a half I would be allowed to play in the front yard but my mother would tell me, “Don’t go into the street.” And I would look at her and wait until she turned her back and step right on the street, and I would just stand in the street, just a little bit, just near the curb, but I would stand in the street. And my mother was big on switches. She’d pull a switch off a tree and just switch the backs of my legs. And I’d cry, but I’d step right back in the street. Finally my mother realized I was going to go in the street anyway, so she said, “Okay, here are the rules. You look this way and you look that way, and this is how you safely go in the street.” She gave me all the rules for the street, and I was perfectly happy."





K & R.

[IndianaGreen]

4. K&R

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