2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumGuess what? Bernie Sanders actually has backers...on Wall Street
Meredith Burak is a third-generation Wall Street executive. At 32, she has worked in global wealth management for Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. She thinks Wall Street is one of the few places in the country where people can truly realize the American Dream. And she's supporting Bernie Sanders for president of the United States.
The same Bernie Sanders who said this about Burak's industry: "The reality is that for the past 40 years, Wall Street and the billionaire class has rigged the rules to redistribute wealth and income to the wealthiest and most powerful people of this country."
Burak doesn't take it personally. "Wall Street has been very good to my family," she said. "It has enabled myself and my cousins and people around me to go to college."
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/11/guess-what-bernie-sanders-actually-has-backerson-wall-street.html
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She doesn't seem very worried that Bernie is going to end the gravy train any time soon.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)More connection with corporations than he has revealed, wonder why.
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)LOL. And then there are the RW superpacs like Rove's AmericanCrossroads.org that spend millions to focus-group new anit-Clinton memes and spread them to all takers. Whenever I hear Bernie brag about how he gets no help from SuperPacs I have to laugh.
scscholar
(2,902 posts)full of angry ranting
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)But the point is that so are Bernie's proposals, when you get down to it. The prosecutable criminals are already in jail, like Madoff, and I hope no actually thinks that Bernie is going to waste his first hundred days trying to prosecute U.S. citizens for the crime of being wealthy.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)It makes my blood boil thinking how corrupt Barack, Eric and Hillary were to let him go free!
By DIANA B. HENRIQUESJUNE 29, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/business/30madoff.html
p.s. yes this is
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)That's why. You don't con rich people and get away with it.
KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)No candidate has perfect angels for supporters.
Bohemianwriter
(978 posts)There are Wall Street bankers who have a consious?
How sinister! Let's dig deep into Bernie's "Wall Street connections"....