Posted on 09/28/2009 4:58:11 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
Wall Street has showered nearly $11 million on the Senate since the beginning of the year, and more than 15 percent of it has gone to a single senator: Democrat Chuck Schumer of New York. Schumer’s $1.65 million take from the financial services industry is nearly twice that of any other senator's — and more than five times what the industry gave to any single Republican senator.
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Considering a chunk of that change must be your’s and mine-it raises some interesting “ethical-type” issues...not that any US senator “worth” his special-interest cash ever really turned a jaundiced eye towards it...
Capitalists freely giving money/support to their executioner.
I just do NOT get it!
Of course, they know who their sugar daddy is. Never figured why The Repbs got tagged as the party of big money. It has always gone to the Dems. The Money men know the Dems will regulate their competitors out of existance while raining taxpayer money on them.
Well, Democrats saints need money too, ya know?
They try to bribe the dems so they will be eaten last.
Hey, Diana.
These are not first-and-foremost Capitalists. They are that select, elite brand who become Corporate Socialists because they want the government to help create a monopoly for themselves.
Like the ChiComs, they use Capitalism to gain wealth and power. And, like all those who are ruled by GREED, they desire for wealth and power has no bounds.
The Bolsheviks didn’t actually overthrow the Czar and conquer Russia. Kerensky did the dirty work in the early part of the year, but he didn’t have a plan in place to establish the government. In came the Wall St. bankers and financiers who funded Lenin and Trotsky to go in and take over Russia not with revolution but with a coup d’etat.
The Wall St. crowd funded these operations through the Red Cross and did so for two reasons: they believe in a global power so long as there is a global banking/financial system behind that global power (Mayer Rothschild once said, “Give me control of the money and I care not who makes the laws), and 2. because Lenin promised exclusive manufacturing rights within the USSR for those companies that sponsored him — and they received it.
So, these are not Capitalists. They are Statists who seek power not directly through the political process, but indirectly through monetary policy and financial control.
Sounds like “Money Laundering” to me.
Culture of corruption on parade. Where are the special prosecutors?
Likewise, the Democrats have convinced blacks that Republicans are destroying back families and communities.
Meanwhile, all the Democrat-run cities are in deep poverty, and their social programs end up debauching the culture and make all problems bigger in the communities they are supposedly serving.
And somehow the Republican party is completely unable to communicate any of this to the American public.
I think Congress should meet only 2 weeks every 3 or 4 mos. they need to get out of DC, there is safety in numbers and too much collusion. If they had to live in their districts/states fulltime it would be harder for all of these lobbyists to get to them and they would have to answer to the people they are supposed to represent.
This is protection money. They are trying to limit their future losses.
Graft and extortion at the highest levels..
Thanks! You can always make things perfectly clear. I still don’t understand it, but I understand it, LOL!
Sensible Wall St bigshots want to be on the good side of the politicians who are going to be running the economy.
Economic fascism is when the politicians ask the businessmen to prop up the political agenda, and the businessmen ask the politicians to prop up the economic infrastructure. It's all one body (corporatism) and although private ownership continues, the line between public and private becomes blurred.
They are no longer capitalists. They are Ivy League trained fascists who find it comfortable marching in lockstep with the government. Put not your faith in Wall Street for you surely will be disappointed.
IndyMac doesn’t donate to Chuckie anymore.. not after he stabbed them in the back.
Here is a major problem for conservatives. Liberals have learned to play to the fascist bone in corporations well. When we get in power, we don’t offer corrupt CEO’s any favors from the treasury and it serves as protection money from Federal shakedowns.
We have to be ready and willing to punish these corporations that play along with the Democrat Party. Like next time we have power, they should all be investigated and audited overtime.
I don’t. I’m a real estate and gold bug. ;)
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