NADER: Wall St. repays our generosity by trying to bring us to our knees

[yurbud]

Nader nails it. We went into hock to save Wall Street, and they repay us by going right back to their usual tricks, including trying to block the student loan business from being taken back by the government, and jacking up credit card rates, and more.

Obama should be tying these guys to anthills or feeding them to sharks.

AG Eric Holder needs to get some high profile indictments in the press soon, and Congress needs to start reregulating these assholes post-haste before too many of us start to believe Obama is the slave not the master of Wall Street.

How about a test of your injustice barometer?

You might think that the reckless, avaricious, giant corporations, having shrunk the economy, cost millions of jobs and then demanded that taxpayers be dunned for years into the future for multi-trillion dollar bailouts, would show contrition, regret, or self-restraint of their power over Washington.

Forget it. They’e baaack! Their greed and power are revving up big time to bring Washington and you the taxpayer, you the parent, you the consumer, you the worker, to your knees.

Here is a sample of the appalling dynamics of corporate greed and continuing over-reach each day in your nation’s capital:

http://counterpunch.com/nader04172009.html">FULL TEXT

[FreakinDJ]

1. Go Away Nader the Trader

You are part of the problem not the solution

[frylock]

2. that's some weak ass shit..

try posting something of substance. mix in a spell check while you're at it. Nader is proven right with every passing day. there is no REAL difference between the dems and the repubs.

[angstlessk]

3. well actually there IS a difference...the Democrats want to save the rich..and give the poor

at least a pittance...the repugs don't even want the poor to survive a tough winter!

[yurbud]

27. reminds me of an old toon about Goldwater after LBJ beat him

Goldwater is watching LBJ talk about escalating troop levels in Vietnam and Goldwater says, "He's doing what I would have done, but I would have enjoyed it more."

On the economic front, Dems often screw us like Repubs, but they have the courtesy to slip us a roofie or at least use lube. Repubs enjoy doing it Jeffrey Dahmer style.

[Butch350]

30. Well, pick a damn side and live with it, sorry.

Or do something stupid and let the state take care of you for a while.

For many years now, us americans, at least some of us, have been getting over extended in debt, buying gas
guzzling autos, boats, planes and big fancy homes, (keeping up with the jones), watching the latest reality tv shows,
jack bower and 24, all the fricken csi's - while our politicians, bankers, and corporate america has been stealing
our money and our lives right under our noses, and now we've finally woke up - just like the Matrix and we're so all
pissed off now and want to turn everything around all of a sudden.

Have f**king fun surviving.

[yurbud]

32. I've picked a side, but don't pretend it's perfect or even close--just better graded on a curve

If we don't keep the pressure on Democrats, they will backslide to Clinton era DLC policies of giving the store away to Wall St while giving empty platitudes to the rest of us.

[Botany]

6. Ralph needs a long walk on a short pier

No difference between Al Gore and W please ..... btw he took repug money to run spots in Florida 2000.


he is a shit.

[depakid]

19. In terms of dergeulatory policies- you know, the kind that caused the great recession?

Ralph was spot on- whereas Nader haters- they're stuck with the saying the same stupid things oiver and over.

[Botany]

24. I have met ralph nader and see his act in person ... the man is a jerk

and saying it is a stupid thing does not take away from the fact Nader
took republican money to run ads in 2000 in Florida.

[depakid]

26. Wow.

I hadn't heard about Republican money for Florida!

That one take paranoia and denialism to yet another level...

Fact is- most partisan Dems can';t wrap their mionds around the fact that there wasn't (and to some extent still isn't) a DIME'S BIT OF DIFFERENCE between the parites on issues of deregulation and corporate accountability. Or the lack thereof.

Nader was right on all those isses. Democrati "leaders" were wrong- and it's cost us all dearly.

[Botany]

28. Where did Ralph get the money to run ads in Florida in 2000?

Nader Campaign Unveils New Television And
Radio Ad Campaign

http://www.commondreams.org/news2000/1031-08.htm

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And yes I have met Ralph and he was an A-hole.

Somehow I think Al Gore might have done something after getting the 8/6/2001 P.D.B. and that is more than a dimes worth of difference ...
say no 3,000 killed on 9/11, no war in Iraq, no 3 trillion spent on the war in Iraq, no no-bid contracts for Halliburton, Blackwater, and others,
and no letting polluters run the EPA and other govt. agencies. Nader has tarnished his legacy beyond all repair.

[followthemoney]

8. Watch out everybody.

There is some bad Hope-ium going around.

Too many people vote for who will win than for who should win.

Hope-ium is known to be related to hearing loss.

[truedelphi]

12. Obama must have made a deal before they ever let him

Hit the Oval Office.

Or else he is jsut very stupid economically.

[Enthusiast]

15. +1, frylock. nt

[Laelth]

11. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

This time Nader is right.

:dem:

-Laelth

[jwirr]

4. Yes they are back and so is Ralph Nader! Back doing what he does

best. Not running for office but calling out the bad guys and revealing their crimes. Thank you Ralph.

[yurbud]

7. yeah, instead of getting a bully pulpit by running for president, he got a bloody pulping

[wolfgangmo]

10. Not great political material is Ralph,

But as an advocate and voice for the people he is great. I daresay he might have been a better president than Obama, but then again I also like Edwards and Kucinich. At least they recognized that there was a problem.

[onehandle]

5. He should run for President.

Of assclown college.

[ardvark]

9. a story about a girl and a snake, that warned what we'd get in return for the bailout

A young girl was trudging along a mountain path, trying to reach her grandmother's house. It was bitter cold, and the wind cut like a knife. When she was within sight of her destination, she heard a rustle at her feet.

Looking down, she saw a snake. Before she could move, the snake spoke to her. He said, "I am about to die. It is too cold for me up here, and I am freezing. There is no food in these mountains, and I am starving. Please put me under your coat and take me with you."

"No," replied the girl. "I know your kind. You are a rattlesnake. If I pick you up, you will bite me, and your bite is poisonous."

"No, no," said the snake. "If you help me, you will be my best friend. I will treat you differently."

The little girl sat down on a rock for a moment to rest and think things over. She looked at the beautiful markings on the snake and had to admit that it was the most beautiful snake she had ever seen.

Suddenly, she said, "I believe you. I will save you. All living things deserve to be treated with kindness."

The little girl reached over, put the snake gently under her coat and proceeded toward her grandmother's house.

Within a moment, she felt a sharp pain in her side. The snake had bitten her.

"How could you do this to me?" she cried. "You promised that you would not bite me, and I trusted you!"

"You knew what I was when you picked me up," hissed the snake as he slithered away.

[bertman]

13. I VOTED FOR AL GORE. But every time I hear Ralph Nader speak or whenever I read his

speeches I am amazed at the breadth and depth of his knowledge and his ability to penetrate the thick fog of bullshit that hovers around our political system.

He's not one to pull punches. I wish our representatives in Washington were as astute and persistent as Mr. Nader.

[yurbud]

14. every time a politician makes a deal or takes a donation, the minimum cost is a pulled punch

[bertman]

17. MINIMUM is absolutely right, yurbud. And all those minimally pulled punches end up

costing us our representative government.

[yurbud]

20. and they get so tied up in knots they can't acknowledge facts right in front of their eyes

[bobthedrummer]

25. Nader would be an outstanding Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

He would also be an excellent head of ANY investigatory group seeking prosecution of the corrupted.

[bertman]

29. A crash of the cymbals for bobthedrummer!! I'm with you, bob.

[Enthusiast]

16. Nader is absolutely correct about

the shocking level of corporate greed. These fucks don't care if they take the country down.

Do you think we will have reasonable healthcare reform under these circumstances? No fucking way, jack! Will we enact legislation to significantly reduce greenhouse gasses? No fucking way! The corporations wield too much power to allow it. All this teabagging stuff was a smokescreen used to promote the false idea that the Obama Administration's moderate proposals are crazy wild measures that will destroy America. Now the corporate media will ramp up attacks and wild allegations against President Obama and chances of meaningful reform will be quashed. Watch it happen right before your eyes. Sorry to take such a negative attitude but I can't see any way to avoid this sad conclusion.

[progressoid]

18. TRYING to bring us to our knees?

I think they are succeeding.

[yurbud]

21. I wanted to get the idea of intent there instead of doing it accidentally

[progressoid]

22. I love it.

Nader has rubbed me the wrong way in the past but this is some old righteous anger!

[vinylsolution]

23. Ralph's right, again....

But some of us are still programmed to hate him, regardless of how progressive he is, or much sense he makes.

[Stellabella]

31. Up yours, Ralph.

Just go away.

[yurbud]

33. and leave poor Wall Street alone?