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I'll leave this right here (Original Post) angrychair Jan 2016 OP
Yeahup..... daleanime Jan 2016 #1
Kickin' Faux pas Jan 2016 #2
Kickety cherokeeprogressive Jan 2016 #3
Elizabeth Warren seems to like Clinton's plan. I guess she better avoid buses. Hoyt Jan 2016 #4
That is not the whole cloth angrychair Jan 2016 #6
+1 tecelote Jan 2016 #19
Probably should keep up to date on things PatrynXX Jan 2016 #11
banker-bashing was unproductive and foolish SoLeftIAmRight Jan 2016 #5
Well, they pay her a lot of $$$$$ for speeches. CharlotteVale Jan 2016 #7
Since they KNOWINGLY and DELIBERATELY collapsed our economy and STOLE $12.8 TRILLION of OUR tax in_cog_ni_to Jan 2016 #8
I lost everything in 2008. draa Jan 2016 #13
I am so, so sorry! in_cog_ni_to Jan 2016 #14
I lost my business, too. Never completely recovered, either. Yeah, she's funny alright. libdem4life Jan 2016 #23
Let's look at the term "bashing." Have you ever noticed, whenever person A accuses Gene Debs Jan 2016 #9
"Bashing" around these parts bvf Jan 2016 #10
Yeah, but it goes back farther than that. Like pointing out that Obama had packed his administration Gene Debs Jan 2016 #12
Inconvenient Facts I call them. The bashing-hating-insulting bar is pretty low here. libdem4life Jan 2016 #25
Yes, the financialization of our economy paleotn Jan 2016 #15
And President Obama said.... Hotler Jan 2016 #16
But NEXT time ejbr Jan 2016 #22
Interesting that the far left now has their own media sources just like the far right. No wonder the Metric System Jan 2016 #17
And the pragmatic moderate centrists have the M$M Fumesucker Jan 2016 #18
Originally quoted from politico ejbr Jan 2016 #24
They have been around for decades. Just now emerging into the Daylight libdem4life Jan 2016 #27
This message was self-deleted by its author think Jan 2016 #29
She doesn't want the poor fee-fees of her Wall Street masters getting hurt. Odin2005 Jan 2016 #20
Add the "fee-fees" FROM Wall Street, too. A little juxtaposition. All safe and sound. LOL libdem4life Jan 2016 #26
If you haven't seen floriduck Jan 2016 #21
Clinton and big bankers are not folks that I can support bigwillq Jan 2016 #28
How do you post the video of her laughing at him in this thread? Lawud Jan 2016 #30
Like this: demwing Jan 2016 #31
Thank you , what a night and day difference from President Bill Clinton and her Lawud Jan 2016 #32
Right. I guess that means jailing or in any way punishing the many criminals in their ranks will be Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2016 #33
I'd love it if someone asked Hillary's opinion of Iceland imprisoning their bankers. snagglepuss Jan 2016 #34

angrychair

(8,678 posts)
6. That is not the whole cloth
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 02:46 PM
Jan 2016

Truth and you know it or at least should if you're going to post on this site. She like aspects of it. She likes that it moves the conversation on the issues.

Here, from this month, Warren praised Sanders plan:

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders-wall-street-217401

Echoed him again here in here own speech just a couple of days ago, saying this:
“The first votes will be cast in Iowa in just 11 days. Anyone who shrugs and claims it is too hard has crawled into bed with the billionaires who want to run this country like some private club.” - See more at: http://newbostonpost.com/2016/01/22/warren-bashing-citizens-united-echoes-sanders-more-than-clinton/#sthash.TlPCAD4W.dpuf

Source: http://newbostonpost.com/2016/01/22/warren-bashing-citizens-united-echoes-sanders-more-than-clinton/ (fyi, great article about the whole issue and who Warren is likely to endorse)

PatrynXX

(5,668 posts)
11. Probably should keep up to date on things
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 03:50 PM
Jan 2016

yes she should avoid buses after having praised Bernie (not really by name just the other day. She didn't endorse him yet but that was fairly close.

in_cog_ni_to

(41,600 posts)
8. Since they KNOWINGLY and DELIBERATELY collapsed our economy and STOLE $12.8 TRILLION of OUR tax
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 03:06 PM
Jan 2016

dollars, bankers deserve to be bashed, investigated, tried and thrown in JAIL!
If you haven't seen the Big Short, you need to. The criminals on Wall St. knew exactly what they were doing and belong in jail. Ms. Hillary W. Bush can dismiss it all she wants, but they're GUILTY and we're NOT bailing their asses out when they collapse our economy again!

<Snip>

But it turns out that that $700 billion is just a small part of a much larger pool of money that has gone into propping up our nation’s financial system. And most of that taxpayer money hasn’t had much public scrutiny at all.

According to a team at Bloomberg News, at one point last year the U.S. had lent, spent or guaranteed as much as $12.8 trillion to rescue the economy. The Bloomberg reporters have been following that money. Alison Stewart spoke with one, Bob Ivry, to talk about the true cost to the taxpayer of the Wall Street bailout.
<snip>

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/economy/the-true-cost-of-the-bank-bailout/3309/

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

draa

(975 posts)
13. I lost everything in 2008.
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 03:57 PM
Jan 2016

Arresting and imprisoning them is the least of what I'd do.

Business, home, marriage and finally my fucking dignity. All of it because of these scum. I won't forgive and I don't forget. And people wonder why so many of us can't stand Clinton or the immoral fucking people she protects.

And some economists believe it was $22T stolen, but since there was no records we have no way of knowing for sure.



in_cog_ni_to

(41,600 posts)
14. I am so, so sorry!
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 04:25 PM
Jan 2016

They destroyed MILLIONS of families and did it deliberately! That's a crime and they belong in jail. Trust me, I think jail is too good for them too. Especially since they'd just be sent to their club-med-for -the-wealthy prisons. Maybe a firing squad or Saudi Arabia would be more appropriate. I'm against the death penalty, but if anyone deserved the death penalty, it would be the Wall St. THIEVES.

And Ms. Hillary W. Bush supports them and what they do....all for the almighty dollar. She's one if them.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
23. I lost my business, too. Never completely recovered, either. Yeah, she's funny alright.
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 04:54 PM
Jan 2016

Ha, ha, ha. Nobody bailed me and my family out either.

 

Gene Debs

(582 posts)
9. Let's look at the term "bashing." Have you ever noticed, whenever person A accuses
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 03:34 PM
Jan 2016

person B of "bashing" someone or something, person B virtually always has a legitimate grievance, the assertion of which makes person A uncomfortable? It's a phenomenon that seems to be unique to that word, as far as I can tell.

 

bvf

(6,604 posts)
10. "Bashing" around these parts
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 03:48 PM
Jan 2016

is coming to mean saying, "Excuse me, but you're wrong," much like pointing out Person A's six-figure speaking fees paid by banks is tantamount to... wait for it... "going negative."

What a hoot some people are.



 

Gene Debs

(582 posts)
12. Yeah, but it goes back farther than that. Like pointing out that Obama had packed his administration
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 03:52 PM
Jan 2016

with Goldman Sachs executives was "Obama bashing."

paleotn

(17,881 posts)
15. Yes, the financialization of our economy
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 04:30 PM
Jan 2016

...in place of actually manufacturing things is hunky dory! Why, instead of good paying manufacturing jobs on which the middle class and class mobility was built, the plebs can all be baristas at Starbucks! Forget that growing income inequality stuff. All is well.

Sometimes, I really, really hate that woman.

Metric System

(6,048 posts)
17. Interesting that the far left now has their own media sources just like the far right. No wonder the
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 04:39 PM
Jan 2016

behavior is similar.

ejbr

(5,856 posts)
24. Originally quoted from politico
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 04:55 PM
Jan 2016

We promise to be opinionated but never partisan, and hope to bring you perspective, not more punditry. We aspire to provoke and inspire, and never to bore or lecture. And we hope you will soon come to rely on the magazine as a place to find the best writers and thinkers in the country—engaged with the day's most important stories, and those that should be.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/about#ixzz3y6S0wGFp

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/12/wall-street-white-house-republicans-lament-of-the-plutocrats-101047

Response to Metric System (Reply #17)

 

floriduck

(2,262 posts)
21. If you haven't seen
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 04:48 PM
Jan 2016

Inside Job, you really need to. It is online free via Vimeo. Just search the title. It goes into deep analysis that's very easy to understand. And it shows the players who actively and passively protected the banks, rating agencies, insurance companies and other players and allowed the crisis to grow and exploded. Bill Clinton, Henry Paulson, Robert Rubin, Allen Greenspan, in particular could have prevented or limited the destruction. But chose to look the other way. And now, one of these players has a spouse running for office to allow it to continue.

 

bigwillq

(72,790 posts)
28. Clinton and big bankers are not folks that I can support
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 05:02 PM
Jan 2016

They have ruined the nation and will do so again.

 

demwing

(16,916 posts)
31. Like this:
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 05:29 PM
Jan 2016
https://vimeo.com/152786370

1. Click on the VIMEO or YOUTUBE link in the lower right corner of the video link.
2. Click in the address bar. Click "CTRL" + "A" to select the URL, then "CTRL" + "C" to copy the URL.
3. Paste the URL into the body of your post

all done!
 

Lawud

(70 posts)
32. Thank you , what a night and day difference from President Bill Clinton and her
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 05:40 PM
Jan 2016

Bill for all his faults had genuine empathy and could feel .

She seems if she was just an ordinary person in the neighbor hood . not famous or rich and powerful
I would not want to associate with .

Just not a nice person



Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
33. Right. I guess that means jailing or in any way punishing the many criminals in their ranks will be
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 05:47 PM
Jan 2016

out of the question.

snagglepuss

(12,704 posts)
34. I'd love it if someone asked Hillary's opinion of Iceland imprisoning their bankers.
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 05:48 PM
Jan 2016

Icelanders certainly feel their tax dollars have been well spent bringing these greed soaked crooks to face justice

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