State of the Union: Obama to set up Financial Crimes Unit

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* Obama to set up a Financial Crimes Unit  to investigate “abusive lending and packaging of risky mortgages that led to the housing crisis”

* Obama to ask his AG to form a committee of SAGs to oversee crimes in lending practices

* Obama comes to the Buffet rule at the end of his speech

* “American people know what the right choice is, and so do I”

* If you make more than a million dollars a year you should pay a minimum of 30% in taxes.

Education and Energy reforms were touched in the early part of this election year speech Energy  part of the speech Referenced “Billions of taxpayer Dollars” that made Natural Gas from shale possible and a TEU fo runfair trade practices was also mooted.  The Guardian thinks taxpayer dollars referenced theugly experiment with Solyndra

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