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Thursday, October 31. 2013

The Dems and Wall St.


Liberals get tons of money from Wall St. In fact, Wall St. is a Democrat stronghold. Typical: Hillary Clinton’s Lucrative Goldman Sachs Speaking Gigs.


Those on the inside know that, when Dems talk class warfare, they are always winking at the bankers and at the ultra-wealthy, and hoodwinking naive populist voters. (I have nothing against the bankers. They are necessary for almost everything, but it would be fine with me if their politics were more balanced.)

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"but it would be fine with me if their politics were more balanced"

Well, as long as one party pushes for more control over more aspects of more people's lives the likelihood of that happening...
#1 Jess1 on 2013-10-31 11:47 (Reply)
How can the half million paid to HRC for two speeches be considered anything other than a bribe?
#2 feeblemind on 2013-10-31 17:43 (Reply)
I don't see how anyone in either party can NOT hate the bankers. Banking stopped being an honorable job when all the banks made so-called NSF fees their main profit center, and they've only gotten worse from there.

Making a loan to somebody when you know darn well they won't be able to pay it off is fraud. All the bankers who did this ought to be in jail today, and that's nearly all of them.

I have no use for the CFPB, but in its place I propose two new rules that, if kept in place, would prevent any recurrence.

(1) Effective immediately, no corporation is allowed to be in business as a bank, investment bank, or broker. They must all convert to partnerships or shut down. The problem this solves is the irresponsibility the corporate veil creates and enables. Anyone who manages other people's life savings needs to be liable to lose his own if he blows it.

(2) Any future "bailout" or "rescue" must rescue only the depositors and let the institution die. Emergency powers shall not extend to making any exception.
#3 jdgalt on 2013-10-31 23:29 (Reply)
Naive populist voters may not, in fact, be as naive as you think:

Obama's worst demographic during the election was white working class voters. This is the same 'blue collar' vote that used to form the base of the Democrat Party.

non-whites, of course, voted for him because of his skin color, so that wasn't really a 'populist' issue.
#4 Aarradin on 2013-11-01 05:20 (Reply)

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