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people.
See front page of today's NYTimes.com if you can stomach it. 35% were from the business sector including a lot of Wall Street bundlers
Including (warning --> link contains graphic content that may not be fit for all audiences):
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/07/us/politics/obama-state-dinner-guest-lists.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region
Lloyd Blankfein and wife (Goldman Sachs CEO)
Jamie Dimon (JP Morgan Chase)
Stephen Schwarzian (Blackstone Group)
James Gorman (Morgan Stanley)
Jeff Immelt (General Electric)
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and on and on.
THOSE WHO HAVE GET - ANOTHER REASON WE NEED A POLITICAL REVOLUTION !
Cleita
(75,480 posts)What he wouldn't do is let them bribe him or lobby him to get favors.
retrowire
(10,345 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Turn CO Blue
(4,221 posts)Seriously, the way our modern culture across the globe worships and coddles these horrific vultures almost makes me believe our society will collapse under the weight of idiocy and sycophantic adulation of sociopaths.
Has there ever been a person who accumulated obscene levels wealth or influence who didn't get there by horrifically stepping on the backs of a metric-ton of people -- exploiting people's labor, tricking people or stealing someone else's ideas? I'm not talking about comfortably wealthy, I'm talking about the 1% of the 1%.
At the very least our government regulators should all be suffering debilitating whiplash from turning a blind eye 1000 times a day on these very men and their corporations and subsidiaries.
None of these men should be able to walk 20 feet without one of their victims being able to face their monster down giving them the scolding of a lifetime. On my more angry and irrational days, I'd prefer to see these CEO-mob bosses forced into a cage fight with their victims who:
- lost a home (and twice-victimized with the bank pocketing their equity too)
- lost a pension (pocketed as an "asset"
- had their patent or invention or software code stolen through corporate spying
- lost their life savings in investment vehicles that the banksters knew were compiled bags of shit (unprosecuted fraud)
- had their small business taken over or forced buyout or forced closure or failed startup due to illegal hindering practices (price-fixing or collusion, corporate spying, implanted bad reviews of new market products, rigged bids, etc etc.)
Impedimentus
(898 posts)"Vampire Squids" Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
NCjack
(10,279 posts)BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)Not one prosecution. No fight by Obama to have Elizabeth Warren head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that she created because the banksters hate her, Rahm Emanuel as first chief of staff, Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary, and it goes on and on.
TheDormouse
(1,168 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Guess they forgot about the 99.9% of us.
But those Bankster assholes...
AtticusInd
(12 posts)But seems like he's just another Dynastic parasite
TheDormouse
(1,168 posts)In other words, do they get a seat at the table no matter who gets into office?
(Hint: ^ Rhetorical question.)