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Posted on 02/10/2010 3:08:46 PM PST by Syncro
OBAMA'S OWNED -- YOU CAN BANK ON IT
February 10, 2010
The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are bristling with the news that Republicans have decided now is the time to suck up to Wall Street. As the saying goes, there is no truer friend than a Wall Street arbitrageur -- they are the salt-of-the-earth, the most loyal men who ever drew a breath!
What are Republicans thinking? While not every money-manipulator on Wall Street deserves to be treated like a heroin dealer, lots do. Could the Republicans be a little more discriminating in picking up the Democrats' old friends?
The Democrats are acting as if they want to punish everyone in the financial services industry, including the innocent, while the Republicans seem to want to protect everyone on Wall Street, including the guilty.
How about just punishing the guilty? The Democrats can't do that because the list of Wall Street's biggest offenders may turn out to be eerily similar to the list of Obama's biggest campaign contributors.
Employees from Goldman Sachs gave more to the Obama campaign than any other organization except the University of California -- with Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase quickly following in sixth and seventh place.
Whatever Obama has in mind for punishing the financial industry, I promise you, he won't punish his friends. After JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon took a $17 million bonus this week, and Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein got a $9 million bonus, Obama said he didn't begrudge them their bonuses, saying, "I know both those guys."
Obama seems to be hoping that his vague bluster about "obscene profits" will lure Republicans into embracing Wall Street welfare recipients -- thereby losing Americans forever.
Never bet against Republicans being outwitted.
Risk-taking and speculation are good. But the Democrats' crony capitalism is the worst of both worlds: risk-taking without any real risk for the risk-takers. It's like gambling with your rich daddy's money, except we're the rich daddy.
Obama, like the rest of his party, is an ideologue who doesn't understand or particularly like the free market. He fundamentally believes in the efficacy of the welfare state, whether the beneficiary is a layabout single mother or a rich Wall Street banker.
As Peter Schweizer describes in his magnificent book "Architects of Ruin," the Democrats have been bailing out investment houses from their bad bets since the Clinton administration. The bankers got all the profits when their risky bonds were paying -- and then gave massive donations to their Democratic benefactors. But once the bets went bad, it was the taxpayers' problem.
Heavily leveraged securities packages put together by Goldman Sachs and others were the HIV virus that killed the American economy. And the reason investment firms piled leverage on leverage on leverage was that they knew the government would bail them out if their house of cards collapsed.
On one hand, Goldman put together toxic securities packages for their clients, but on the other hand, Goldman knew the mortgage securities being sold on the market were crap, so they also took out lots of insurance with AIG on crappy products being traded on the market.
It would be as if, anticipating a major earthquake, Goldman bought massive insurance policies on every house on the San Andreas fault line.
There's nothing wrong with taking risks and making bets, provided that if you bet wrong or if you bankrupt your betting partner with wild gambles: You lose.
Read more at AnnCoulter.Com
Where's the media coverage on this?
Probably still in Haiti, persecuting a few Baptists trying to help.
LOL, gimme a break.
Coulter speaks to a large variety of subjects, and the fact that people want to hear them has nothing to do with why she speaks to the issues.
She's on top of the whole economic, political and religious world.
Not until we force him to.
Miss Gibbs and his various and assorted poofter czars too.
RuPaul called and wants to see you again.
He remembers you:
LOL! You just posted a little red x.
FAIL!
Which major US financial institution had a former CEO serve as both Senator from New Jersey and as Governor of the same?
Which major US financial institution was the home to Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson before he went to Washington?
From which major US financial institution did Hank Paulson hire someone to administer TARP?
Which major US financial institution was the only one of currently independent major financial institutions that Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke did NOT force, using un-Constitutional means, to take on huge debt and merge with other failing institutitons during the crisis in the fall of 08?
Which major financial institution gave more to Barack Obama's election campaign than any other institution, financial or otherwise, in the US?
Which major financial institution is the only major bank that will not be forced to split in two if Obama's new financial regulations are passed into law?
Which financial institution do Wall Street traders privately say is trying to take over the world?
The answer to all of these questions: Goldman Sachs, the 21st century's East India Company.
LOL! Just messin’ wit ya, man!
This is well known already.
How about just punishing the guilty? The Democrats can't do that because the list of Wall Street's biggest offenders may turn out to be eerily similar to the list of Obama's biggest campaign contributors. Employees from Goldman Sachs gave more to the Obama campaign than any other organization except the University of California -- with Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase quickly following in sixth and seventh place.Thanks Syncro.
To Ann Coulter: “Thou art femininity itself, extracted whole from the quarry of creation’’—Shakespeare. **SIGH**
Dimon and Blankfein were huge Obama supporters. These guys escaped the “near collapse” of our economy with their fortunes intact.
Republicans should ask how is this possible.
All for free markets and completely against redistribution of wealth, but free markets mean you’re free to fail as well as succeed.
WOW now that is a gorgeous pin.
touche!
“Corporations buy influence from both parties.”
Except that McCain is not really a republican...
From Paul Johnson's A History of the American People. on Jay Gould's takeover of the Erie Railroad, which Vanderbilt coveted:
"At the climax of the battle, Drew, Fisk and Gould, who had taken over the Erie HQ in New York, gathered up $8 million of greenbacks there, tied them in bundles, threw them into the back of a hackney cab, drove to the New Jersey ferry, crossed, collected an army of thugs, and fortified Taylor's Hotel on the Jersey City waterfront, renamed For Taylor, with their armed men and three cannon. They also had a shore patrol in four lifeboats, each containing a dozen gunmen. All this was to fend off the naval assault of the Commodore , who, it was said, 'could be heard roaring from the New York shoreline."
Heh... Apple contributed to Ron Paul... that’ll make some heads explode around here...
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