Bernacke has done more harm to the United States than any one man in history.
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Bernacke has done more LONG TERM harm to the United States IN PURSUIT OF SHORT TERM GAIN than any one man in history.
Barney Frank ranks equally.
Ben is trying to resolve the mess Frank created.
The Queeah from Massachusetts created the lending debacle thet precipitated the ensuing economic disaster
“Bernacke has done more harm to the United States than any one man in history.”
Ben Bernanke was chosen for the job by George W. Bush. Bush also put Henry Paulson, Chairman of Goldman Sachs into the Secretary of the Treasury slot in time for the meltdown. Timothy Geithner also became head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank under Bush.
The Republican Party is a creature of Wall Street. During the 2008 meltdown, Bush turned management of the crisis over to Bernanke, Paulson, and Geithner who proceed to bail out the banks at the expense of the taxpayer. Bush’s Justice Department did nothing to investigate and bring to justice the perpetrators of the run on the banking system that set off the collapse in September 2008. A year after the collapse and bailout the Goldman Sachs boys were back to paying huge bonuses.
The administration of George W. Bush was the setup for the economic and cultural destruction we see today. Bush sat with his veto pen in his pocket while Congress went on a spending spree. He installed Bernanke at the Federal Reserve, Paulson at Treasury, Gates at Defense, and Roberts on the Supreme Court. He would have installed Harriet Myers on the Supreme Court if the Republicans in Congress hadn’t rebelled. He did nothing to root out the socialists and leftists Clinton installed in the bureaucracy. The Patriot Act and the Department of Homeland Security were his creations. He failed to enforce immigration laws and protect the southern border. He called Islam the “religion of peace” immediately after 9/11. When conservatism thought and principles were under attack, he sat silent.
Voting for Republicans is not the solution. A new conservative party is needed that is not dependent on Wall Street and multinational corporations for its financing and is not invested in preserving the inside the beltway power structure.