Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) delivered a stinging critique of Republicans and Democrats alike in a speech “that said policies pushed by both parties have created financial hardships for everyday families while further enriching a narrow sliver of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Said Warren: “Pretty much the whole Republican Party—and, if we’re going to be honest, too many Democrats—talked about the evils of ’big government’ and called for deregulation. It sounded good, but it was really about tying the hands of regulators and turning loose big banks and giant international corporations to do whatever they wanted to do—turning them loose to rig the markets and reduce competition, to outsource more jobs, to load up on more risks and hide behind taxpayer guarantees, to sell more mortgages and credit cards that cheated people. In short, to do whatever juiced short-term profits even if it came at the expense of working families.”
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