Posted on 04/17/2010 10:23:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Some background articles.
It was unclear whether the govt let Lehman fallto teach Wall Street a lesson It was to save Paulsons Goldman Sachs http://tinyurl.com/n2ebof
Hank Paulson’s Former Co Goldman Sachs Admits Its Software Can “Manipulate Markets in Unfair Ways http://tinyurl.com/kjea5l
In order to shift funds to his former company Goldman Sachs, Hank Paulson got a “Waiver of ethics disclosure” for conflict of interest.
DNC and Obama using Goldman Sachs SEC problems to push their goal of power. How hypocritical of Obama and his thugs.
Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government, said in an e-mail: It must be nice for the Democrats that the SEC’s filing against Goldman Sachs so conveniently fits into their political agenda. But at the end of the day, all the theatrics and tactics in the world will not successfully divert the American people’s attention away from the inescapable fact that the very people the Democrats are trying to blame for main street’s problems are the same people that they gave a blank check to when they bailed them out with hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ dollars.”
Are you saying both parties are culpable?
I agree. Did you happen to see porker of the year is a republican?
$29,992,000 by Senate Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) for 27 projects, including: $4,000,000 for the Jamie Whitten Delta States Research Center, Stoneville; $1,500,000 for Berryman Institute, Jack Berryman Institute, Utah and Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Experiment Station; $1,002,000 for Mississippi Valley State University, curriculum development; $939,000 for the Agricultural Wildlife Conservation Center; and $231,000 for e-commerce research, because no one knows how to go online.
With Republicans in charge earmarks hit their peak at $29 billion in 2006. Now down to $19.6 billion in fiscal year 2009.
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