Posted on 04/16/2010 12:14:12 PM PDT by Slyscribe
Americans United For Change, a labor-funded organization, has been running Web ads with the caption “Tea Parties. Who Are The Senate Republican Listening To? Not You.” Click on the ad and it leads here, to AUC’s message on financial reform:
Think Republican Senators are listening to you? Not a chance.
While you’re protesting, Republican Senators like Mitch McConnell are cozying up to many of the same figures who were responsible for creating the economic meltdown. They’re promising them that there will be no new transparency, no accountability, no end to the too big to fail system that resulted in taxpayer bailouts. They’re looking out for their friends on Wall Street and not you on Main Street.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.investors.com ...
Democrats are turning into a new KKK freak show, complete with terror wing.
No kidding. Tax payer bailouts kept union workplaces open (GM & Chrysler). Their pension plans are next in line for government takeover/taxpayer bailout.
The usual suspects, in other words.
Funny, all of these Wall Street “Republicans” gave overwhelmingly to Obama and Schumer. Goldman Sachs employees being a prime example.
DEMOCRATS ARE THE CRIMINAL THUG PARTY OF GOLDMAN SACHS.
if the GOP is smart, which they are not, they’d start running ads telling the American public that Goldman Sachs was/is chairman obama’s biggest campaign contributor....
Congress Has 43,457,362 Reasons to Help Goldman Sachs
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Blotter/story?id=5891663&page=1&page=1
Congress Has 43,457,362 Reasons to Help Goldman Sachs Embattled Firm and Its Employees Spread Millions Around Washington in Donations and Lobbying Expenses 95
Not all their money has gone for mansions and Ferraris. Employees of Goldman Sachs are listed as a top contributor to 55 separate members of Congress. (ABC News Photo Illustration)
The embattled Goldman Sachs investment banking firm and its employees have spent more than $43 million dollars on lobbying and campaign contributions to cultivate friends and buy influence in Washington, D.C. since 1989, according to an ABC News analysis of campaign finance records compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.
As a group, Goldman Sachs bankers have been the country’s top political campaign contributors this year and have given $29.5 million in contributions since 1989, according to the Center. “They are almost in a class by themselves,” said Sheila Krumholz, the executive director for the Center for Responsive Politics.
“Their top executives are in a class that is way above the clout and name-dropping that most other American businesses can achieve,” says Krumholz.
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“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”
-P. J. O’Rourke
Goldman Sachs bankers are also the number one contributors to the Barack Obama presidential campaign, giving $691,930 to his campaign in this cycle, according to the records.
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John McCain’s campaign has received substantially less from Goldman Sachs employees, $208,395, although they are, as a group, his fourth largest contributor.
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In the 2008 election cycle, Goldman Sachs bankers have come up with $4.8 million in contributions to federal candidates, according to the records. 72 per cent of Goldman’s money this year has gone to Democratic candidates and the national party, the majority party in Congress.
Goldman Sachs exec named first COO of SEC enforcement
WASHINGTON – A Goldman Sachs executive has been named the first chief operating officer of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division.
The market watchdog says Adam Storch, vice president in Goldman Sachs’ Business Intelligence Group, is assuming the new position of managing executive of the SEC division.
Adam Storch Named Managing Executive of SEC’s Enforcement Division
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2009-220
Washington, D.C., Oct. 16, 2009 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Adam Storch has been named to the newly-created position of Managing Executive of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement.
http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2009/2009-220.htm
The fox guarding the hen house-Corruption at it’s finest. The government in this country is revolting.
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