Posted on 09/20/2021 7:34:16 PM PDT by blam
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband must not be having the success with his daytrades that he once was. Otherwise, we can’t think of any other reason for Pelosi to come out last Friday and state in London that capitalism “has not served” the U.S. economy as well as it should.
“In America, capitalism is our system, it is our economic system, but it has not served our economy as well as it should,” Pelosi said according to WaPo. “So what we want to do is not depart from that, but to improve it and to make sure that it serves us.”
The statement is ridiculous on a number of levels, not the least of which is that Pelosi and her husband have been partaking in the system – exactly as it exists today – by executing meaningful options trades in U.S. listed public companies, many of which have had “interestingly timed” runs of fortune since Pelosi’s involvement.
Pelosi’s criticism of capitalism was that it had “historically allowed workers’ wages, as well as management’s, to rise alongside productivity”. We wonder if she has taken a good hard look at the effect of the ongoing Democratic government dole on productivity as well?
Doing her best Karl Marx impression, Pelosi said: “You cannot have a system where the success of some springs from the exploitation of the workers and springs from the exploitation of the environment and the rest, and we have to correct that.”
Pelosi said that the economic shift has been to “shareholder capitalism” which caused “employee salaries to stagnate”.
So naturally we’re expecting that Pelosi will dump all of her investments where her and her husband are “shareholders” – lest she contribute to the very same system she is arguing is decimating America and the middle class.
Pelosi, meanwhile, is estimated to be worth $114 million.
What’s it going to be, Nancy?
Yeah, but corruption and fraud is alive and well isn’t it Nasty?
Capitalism + your large check payable to me would be swell
It seems the Botox stuff is insufficient.
You’ve got to try harder capitalists & scientists.
The part that needs fixing is the Pelosi and AOC becoming wealthy in Congress.
Shameless crooks
I love when the super wealthy say that their vision for the future is the rest of us donning our gray jumpsuits and trudging off to our 7 days a week of manual labor in a state owned windowless factory and then heading to the market to collect our state issued roll of toilet paper and loaf of bread for the week.
“Communist that gets rich off exploiting capitalism, complains capitalism isn’t working well”
NanXi Pelousy.
We don’t have Capitalism now.
If there were investigative journalists that were worth a good curse, that story would be plastered all over the national news like stink on a skunk.
Perhaps the merry pranksters of Project Veritas and Western Journalism should pry open this can of stinky fish.....
Wouldn’t that be fun?
Crony capitalism (corporatism) works well for those who capture regulation.
Nancy Pelosi Booed in England: “Whole World Knows TRUMP WON, Nancy!”
https://welovetrump.com/2021/09/18/nancy-pelosi-booed-in-england-whole-world-knows-trump-won-nancy/
That picture just screams Michael Jackson
The ONLY problem with the Capitalist system is - people like Nancy and her co-horts, who ABUSE it at the expense of others for their own fun and profit.
They should be locked up, not quoted in the press.
Central committee member worth $114 Million no questions to be asked.
$114,000,000! That is a lot of money. I wonder which is more profitable to the family fortune, husband is a banker, owning a tuna packing company in American Samoa, being a congress person.
Being a banker with the Speaker of the House in your pocket has got to produce some real good cash flow. Probably almost as good as being Secretary of State.
Endangered specie canning, distribution , and sales should also be a very lucrative business, especially when you can pay really, really low wages in American Samoa.
Being a congress critter and especially Speaker, well it just ‘speakers’ for itself for the amount of graft, payback, insider stuff, etc.
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