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Elizabeth Warren: Obama's economic team chose Wall Street over 'families'
CNN Money ^ | 10/13/14 | Melanie Hicken

Posted on 10/13/2014 11:01:04 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

Senator Elizabeth Warren, always outspoken on the tension between Main Street and Wall Street, took shots Sunday at a system she said is "rigged" against the little guy.

In an interview in Salon, Warren, who has said she doesn't plan to seek the 2016 presidential nomination, said fellow Democrats including President Obama have not done enough to help consumers.

On President Obama: Warren praised Obama for the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency aimed at enforcing consumer protection laws.

But she told Salon that "there has not been nearly enough change" in the wake of the U.S. financial crisis.

"He picked his economic team and when the going got tough, his economic team picked Wall Street. ...They protected Wall Street. Not families who were losing their homes. Not people who lost their jobs. Not young people who were struggling to get an education. And it happened over and over and over."

On lobbyists: Banks spend millions on "armies of lobbyists and lawyers," she told Salon, but there are few people at "the decision-making table" representing the concerns of everyday Americans.

"And when that happens -- not just once, not just twice, but thousands of times a week -- the system just gradually tilts further and further."

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crockajawea; economic; elizabethwarren; families; fauxcahontas; lieawatha; obama; wallstreet; warren; woowoowoowoo
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Fun times when they start eating their own. I saw a blurb this weekend that said a Gallup Poll had Obama's unfavorables at a record 57%.

We have to sweep the rats away in November.

1 posted on 10/13/2014 11:01:04 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

This is our next Affirmative Action President,boys and girls.


2 posted on 10/13/2014 11:02:45 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Islamopobia:The Irrational Fear Of Being Beheaded)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

She is picking sides with Shrillery so she gets a plum appt after Shrillery gets elected


3 posted on 10/13/2014 11:03:20 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Gay State Conservative

> This is our next Affirmative Action President,boys and girls.

I wanna puke.

But you’re prolly correct.


4 posted on 10/13/2014 11:03:52 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Yep. That rhetoric is gonna usher her into the White Hut IMO.


5 posted on 10/13/2014 11:04:41 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Indian squaw Liz Warren sure is getting out there and in our faces a lot.

Is it possible that the radical liberal side of the Democrat party will push her, and not Hillary, for president?

I’ve heard rumblings that the Clinton’s aren’t liberal enough for lots of Democrats.

And Warren could be the historic first woman president. No need for Hillary if there is a more liberal woman out there.


6 posted on 10/13/2014 11:05:47 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

The Fauxcahontas Lieawatha Crockajawea drinking game!

“rigged” Drink!

“hammered” Drink!

“fairness” Drink!

“little guy” Drink!

“cheekbones” Drink!

Fraudawatha runs away from a reporter...CHUG!


7 posted on 10/13/2014 11:06:56 AM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Gay State Conservative
She's dumb as a box of rocks and frumpy as a pilgrim.

Cruz will run circles around her.

8 posted on 10/13/2014 11:08:21 AM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor, Lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Obama’s economic team chose Wall Street over ‘families’and the golf course over working.


9 posted on 10/13/2014 11:08:54 AM PDT by IM2MAD (IM2MAD=Individual Motivated 2 Make A Difference)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
She is right, but as usual for the wrong reasons.
She would have you believe it's Rich Republicans who are taking away from Poor (i.e. Welfare) Families.
Instead it is Rich Dem Cronies who are taking away from Working (i.e. Productive) families.

10 posted on 10/13/2014 11:09:23 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
What you be sayin',fool!
11 posted on 10/13/2014 11:11:25 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Islamopobia:The Irrational Fear Of Being Beheaded)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Ur gettin’ SCROOOOOD and I’m just the gal to punish the guys doin’ it to ya!” is gonna resonate with a whole lot of low infos.


12 posted on 10/13/2014 11:13:13 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TangledUpInBlue

She got the dem talking points memo that told zeros sycophants to pretend to oppose him so that hilLIARy can run as zeros opposition and the country’s next savior.


13 posted on 10/13/2014 11:13:14 AM PDT by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: BitWielder1

Sure thought the wall streeters like The Hildabeast & she took her share of money from them. Also Buffett endorses her


14 posted on 10/13/2014 11:13:21 AM PDT by Digger
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Wait..
WHAT????

I guess this means that Elizabeth Warren is a rassiss that just hates the idea of a black president, right?


15 posted on 10/13/2014 11:15:13 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Princess Fauxcahontas speak with forked tongue about "honorary" Chief Black Eaglet. She should be sent to sleep with the dogs in the wood pile.
16 posted on 10/13/2014 11:15:15 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Ebola and Enterovirus-D68. Proud members of Viruses Without Borders.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
"He picked his economic team and when the going got tough, his economic team picked Wall Street. ...They protected Wall Street. Not families who were losing their homes. Not people who lost their jobs. Not young people who were struggling to get an education. And it happened over and over and over."

That's because only the 1%ers can afford the $50,000 fund raiser tickets.

17 posted on 10/13/2014 11:15:48 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: yldstrk

She wants to be Commandant of the first re-education camp for enemies of the state.


18 posted on 10/13/2014 11:16:31 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

The further left they are the more they are trying to disempower the comon person so thi sis just BS.


19 posted on 10/13/2014 11:23:57 AM PDT by amnestynone (A big government conservative is just a corporatist who is not paying enough taxes.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“I’ve heard rumblings that the Clinton’s aren’t liberal enough for lots of Democrats.”

Most of my liberal acquaintances during the Clinton administration thought he was too conservative and not really a liberal. After all, he ran as a “New Democrat”, socially liberal but economically a centralist. Most liberals will never forgive him for welfare reform.


20 posted on 10/13/2014 11:42:01 AM PDT by DugwayDuke
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