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Religious Freedom?

Always remember that the Puritans were kicked out of England because they thought the Church of England and Catholic church were too easy going and not burning enough people at the stake.  Literally, England was like, “You guys are assholes and need to get on a boat and leave.  GTFO.”

And thus, American religion was born.

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Elizabeth Warren Proposes Replacing Payday Lenders With The Post Office
thinkprogress.org

From 2014:

“USPS could partner with banks to make a critical difference for millions of Americans who don’t have basic banking services because there are almost no banks or bank branches in their neighborhoods,” Warren wrote in a Huffington Post op-ed on Saturday. The op-ed picked up on a report from the USPS’s Inspector General that proposed using the agency’s extensive physical infrastructure to extend basics like debit cards and small-dollar loans to the same communities that the banking industry has generally ignored. The report found that 68 million Americans don’t have bank accounts and spent $89 billion in 2012 on interest and fees for the kinds of basic financial services that USPS could begin offering. The average un-banked household spent more than $2,400, or about 10 percent of its income, just to access its own money through things like check cashing and payday lending stores. USPS would generate savings for those families and revenue for itself by stepping in to replace those non-bank financial services companies.”…

She could have just stayed at Harvard Law School and taught but she did this, too.  She not only understands the problems, she’s working to fix them.  

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