You make a mistake that is common on this forum of not differentiating firms and individuals.
Wall Street firms, just like Alcoa and others, donate not that much and do so to both Dems and Reps. Wall Street execs, acting as INDIVIDUAL, donate more to Dems.
You comment is thus disconnected from what I said.
It only shows that irrationality of hatred of Wall Street that is quite common on this forum.
I agree that not all Wall Street people are ideologically identical, so my text should be more precise, but consider that according to numbers from the Federal Election Commission, Goldman Sachs (20,000 employees, much smaller than other top donor organizations) was the number 2 Obama donor organization in 2008.
So I will rephrase:
"Like employees of big Wall Street firms who donate big bucks to Obama?"
You advocate a moral purity that seems very difficult for many of your Wall Street heroes to live up to.
Speaking of imprecision (on several levels), from your post 31:
It’s nice to see the unity of the leftist scum and the supposedly conservative forum...
It seems to me that Taibbi does have an ugly underlying hatred of capitalism in general, not just the Wall Street Ferengi, and unfortunately some FR posters do not seem to notice that. I think it's very unlikely I would have much in common with him or his friends. I guess I should not be too surprised with a Rolling Stone article.
The point of all this is that, even though I find Taibbi sleazy sometimes, I also find some of his enemies equally sleazy. If he were a pure marxist, why would he attack Crap and Trade so passionately?