Yes! And the Banksters know how to make money off recessions & depressions.
86%
No! This administration will impose regulations on WallStreet & push back on the Banksters.
14%

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dianhow 14 years 49 weeks ago

Our Fed Chairman have come from Goldman Sachs They took great care of their old buddies . Greenspan Rubin Paulson Bernacki Bush Paulson TARP was a huge scam on taxpayers 4 pages with NO safe guards in place to protect our money ! 700 billion in Wall St WELFARE Taxpayers paid 100 cents on dollar for their JUNK that was fraudulently labelled TRIPLE AAA ! Where else could Goldmans Wall St they find such gullible suckers ? Bush & Paulson pulled off the real Ponzi scheme yet Cons - GOP Tea Baggers still prasie Bush & Cheney and they revere Reagan ( 1981 Reaganomics deregulation- 1986 total amnesty with open borders for cheap illegal wages- guns sold to Iran then lied about- good jobs started going overseas with big GOP tax cuts . Bush kept that going strong . a reward for GOP votes ?

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taschreyer 14 years 49 weeks ago

I think this type of sociopathy is very widespread. I receive many email advertisements from investment advisors trying to get me to subscribe to their newsletters. The sales pitches always start with a one or two paragraph horror story telling how the entire economy is going to collapse. And then the very next sentence is, "And here is how you can get rich when it happens!"

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arky12 14 years 49 weeks ago

I voted no because I have high hopes for a strong push back against the banksters. But I do agree that they currently, and for many years have run the world to their liking. I've now heard that the market will totally crash soon and that there are many who are betting on it and should that happen will become even richer then they are now while the rest of the world plunges into deep despair. It is just sick. What good would their money do them if there's no one left to make the luxury items they could buy with all that money? More money then they could spend in 10,20 or more lifetimes? Wonder if we then have a world wide revolt?

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David J. Cyr 14 years 49 weeks ago

opensecrets.org documentation of Wall St. investments in Obama, 2008:

Goldman Sachs $1,648,685
JP Morgan Chase $808,799
Citigroup, Inc. $736,711
Morgan Stanley $512,232

3 of the top 7 owners of Obama are bankster corporations. Democrats are what banksters refer to as a value investment — high return to be gained on a cheap investment.

The "progressive" liberals don't oppose any evil; they vote for Democrats to perfect every evil.

It might become possible for elections to serve a good purpose, if all liberals were nonvoters.

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Ramalam1 14 years 49 weeks ago

Thomm,

What is the status of the Sherman Antitrust Act? Why isn't it used all the time?

Jim from Berkeley

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Ramalam1 14 years 49 weeks ago

David, Do you happen to have the statistics for their support for the total $ support for the Republican candidates?

Are you truly in support of taking away the vote of people who don't think like you? Really? What is your definition of Democracy?

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David J. Cyr 14 years 49 weeks ago

In answer to the fake named Ramalam1:

A1:
Part of the serious problem with liberal voters is that they eagerly vote for corrupt corporate party Democrats, faith-based believing the corporate party's Democrats might be less corrupt than the same corporate party's Republicans. We all get the corporate party's complete corruption because liberals vote together with conservatives to get it.

Imagine how hard Robert Rubin laughed when tens of millions of liberal maniacs sent in their small change contributions attempting to match the funds of the corporations that already owned all the shares in Obama. Rubin's Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, and all of Obama's other corporate person shareholders got mountains of dividends, and both short and long-term gains from their investment in Obama. Natural persons got none.

Obama maniacs voted for Goldman Sachs to control economic policy; for Monsanto to control agriculture policy; and for the military industrial complex to control foreign policy... for corporate persons to continue to completely control the government of natural persons.

A2:
I'm in support of people not being liberal voters. Liberal voters have ensured that no good comes from elections, by their fundamental abuse of the electoral process. Liberal voters reliably regularly (D) vote for what they say they are against, and against what they say they are for.

Example: The corporate party's conservative retrograde (R) voters vote for war because they think it is the answer. But it's the corporate party's "antiwar" depraved (D) voters who ensure that war will be the only answer.

In a people's democracy natural persons would vote to determine the best policies for people and for Nature (upon whom we all depend), not fight over which of two corporate persons decided "electable" sociopaths is the evil thing deserving lesser or greater support from its victims.

America never achieved a democracy, because there were too many Democrats.

No democrat would be, nor could be a Democrat.

http://www.chenangogreens.org

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