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Which is a nanny government in cyprus, is insolvent. it s that the banks are insolvent. and the banks had sort of grown to about 6 or 7 times the size of the economy. with a lot of influx of russian money. what happened was the banks invested in greek bonds which went from 100 to essentially zero. the banks are wiped out. now, europe said we will help you out and that the beginning they made a fatal mistake. they said we will help you out if you steal money from all of your depositors. now, that caused sort of a revolution in cyprus. and it was stopped. but then they made what was the only wise decision. they decided that those people who have under 100,000 euros, which are insured, they have their money intact. but all the money that was put in beyond insurance it s like the fdic insurance we have here. is fair game.
Is not that the government, which is a nanny government in cyprus, is insolvent. it s that the banks are insolvent. and the banks had sort of grown to about 6 or 7 times the size of the economy. with a lot of influx of russian money. what happened was the banks invested in greek bonds which went from 100 to essentially zero. the banks are wiped out. now, europe said we will help you out and that the beginning they made a fatal mistake. they said we will help you out if you steal money from all of your depositors. now, that caused sort of a revolution in cyprus. and it was stopped. but then they made what was the only wise decision. they decided that those people who have under 100,000 euros, which are insured, they have their money intact. but all the money that was put in beyond insurance it s like the fdic insurance we have here.
City, new york city, put in a ban on trans fats, using trans fats to deep fry foods, for instance. according to the city, restaurant trans fat use dropped from about 50% of fried products to less than 2%. new york sort of has become the leader in this kind of thing. all kinds of other states and municipalities have followed on, you know, despite the complaints that this is nanny government. right. jon: is it ultimately going to yeah. it s going to make a big difference. the ban on trans fats, this is an artificial form of fat that was put into our food. it had a certain flavor texture that food producers liked, but it increased levels of heart disease and diabetes. this is not the kind of food that we want to be consuming. we want to educate people not only about the things they shouldn t be eating, but also the things they should be eating, more greens, more fruits ask vegetables, healthy grains.
That got him elected, one of the things that got him elected to expand free health care, cheap health care to people who couldn t afford it and he gets absolutely hammered. th is now being seen as an abject failure by him and his administration. and i m sitting there going let me get this straight, a president says when i get into power, i m going to make it more available for poor people to have better health care than they re getting already and this is is an be a jukt, miserable failure that he should be lambasted for? he s calling for a nanny government. he s a liberal by the way, we re not liberals anymore. what have you become? nobody runs around saying i m a liberal, i m a liberal. we ve been so marginalized, we re almost ashamed of the name. we re not liberals anymore, we re progressives.