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Gomez163

(2,039 posts)
Mon May 9, 2016, 02:21 PM May 2016

What is lost in all these "Hillary is getting money from Wall Street" posts is

that Wall Street is saying that Democrats and the good economy they bring is good for business and good for Wall Street. Remember that Obama has doubled the Dow, whereas Bush cut the Dow in half. These are numbers people and they dont want to risk a return to the bad times.

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Yurovsky

(2,064 posts)
6. The "I've got mine" wing of the Democratic Party doesn't seem to care...
Mon May 9, 2016, 02:27 PM
May 2016

workers are just a cost center to be minimized whenever possible. The 1% isn't going to tolerate sharing with the great unwashed, so they're banking on Team Clinton to protect their interests?

 

Trust Buster

(7,299 posts)
9. The Koch's alone have budgeted $889 million. In my state of Ohio, Ted Strickland is challenging
Mon May 9, 2016, 02:39 PM
May 2016

Rob Portman's Senate seat. Americans For Prosperity, a Koch funded group, has been slamming Strickland in television ads since the beginning of April as they are in states where they have other vulnerable seats. Trump will get his because the Supreme Court hangs in the balance.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
5. Good point, in fact a Democrat in the presidents office usually means a better ecomony
Mon May 9, 2016, 02:26 PM
May 2016

than with a republican as president. Wall Street employees should not be restricted to donating to the candidate which they support.

griffi94

(3,731 posts)
7. The other thing that's getting lost
Mon May 9, 2016, 02:28 PM
May 2016

is that most regular voters don't care.

It's a given that politicians have donors.
It's a given that businesses and even entire industries
donate to candidates of all stripes.

Nobody that supported Hillary is going to stop
supporting her over this.

Hillary is still hundreds of delegates and millions of votes ahead.

That's because IRL nobody cares.

 

egalitegirl

(362 posts)
8. Good for Wall Street is not good for economy
Mon May 9, 2016, 02:36 PM
May 2016

Of course, taking money from the economy and handing it to Wall Street is good for Wall Street. Hillary voted for the Wall Street bailouts. So Wall Street loves her. Whose money was it that was given to Wall Street?

 

lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)
10. What's good for GM is good for the country.
Mon May 9, 2016, 02:40 PM
May 2016

It's now a democrat principle. Yay.

Median family income has dropped as a result of the bubble economy. Bubbles aren't good for the economy.

Ferd Berfel

(3,687 posts)
11. What gets lost by some is that Wall Street supports Status Quo
Mon May 9, 2016, 02:46 PM
May 2016

and will do anything to keep it.


And status quo only helps the 1%- that's Clintons goal

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