Posted on 11/05/2011 10:27:55 AM PDT by casinva
Perry accused lawmakers of being too chummy with Wall Street at a town hall held yesterday in Johnston, Iowa. Asked what he would do to “to stop stupid CEOs of financial institutions from making bad decisions that cause them to fail,” Perry said there are already “plenty of regulations in place to do that.” What’s lacking, he claimed, is “a government that will actually institute the oversight.”
“I happen to think Wall Street and Washington, D.C., have been in bed together way too long,” he said. “That’s one of the problems that we have in this country, is that there are people that have too much money invested that end up in Washington, D.C. One of the reasons that the establishment really doesn’t like me, and really doesn’t like my tax plan, is because they know that I’m going to show up in Washington, D.C., with a sledgehammer and they’re not going to like it.”
Watch the full clip here, via The Texas Tribune:
More plus a 2:34 minute video of this segment of the town hall meeting at the liked article.
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I would never have bailed anybody out.
If you are too big to fail, you are too big.
Ping please.
He’s got that right. Good to see him standing up and saying what needs to be said.
I haven’t been able to watch any of the debates, but have a general picture of how they went thanks to FR and other sources. Too bad Perry so badly muffed the early part of his campaign, because I was really hoping he’d be the person most Republicans (moderates and conservatives) could rally around. Now it’s probably too late for him to recover. Sad that Romney and Cain might be our only viable choices come time to vote in the primaries. Sigh.
Yep, sensitive areas are starting to chafe.
What a load of garbage. How many millions of dollars of taxpayer money did this guy funnel to his major donors? And now, he expects us to believe that will all change, because the money comes from Wall Street?
Unfortunately, Obama stood up and said what needed to be said as well.
I no longer trust words from any politician, only deeds.
Actually, it is a pigmy pony.
No bailouts except for the 250 million Perry gave to F1 Racing and the billions he gave to the Toll Road operators.
“They” better not show up on this thread because now I’m documenting.
Take heart. Perry has never lost. Don’t count him out.
That us just the most obvious, well known example of Rick’s long term addiction to pay to play cronyism. Rick doesn’t have the credibility to trash Wall Street and D. C. He practices the same Mordida games from his $10 k/month rental mansion in Austin.
The question is, which "Altura" is "documenting"....Do you trade information with your other aliases?
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