“Rahm Emanuel worked on Wall Street——and was a fund-raiser and top aide to Bill Clinton AND a G/S lobbyist at the same time.”
I forgot about Rahm. Jeb Bush worked for Lehman brothers after his term as governor of Florida. Lehman was at the center of the 2008 meltdown. The key actors in both political parties are dependent on the big banks for campaign money and lucrative do nothing consulting jobs when they are out of office. Too much cronyism.
The concentrated wealth at Goldman, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, MetLife, Bank of America and Wells Fargo plus a few large private equity firms and hedge funds is excessive and detrimental to the republic. The New York centered banking/investment cartel needs to be broken up if we are to restore liberty in this country. These firms act as an oligopoly and control the national political agenda.
The Chicago mayoralty (and its--cough--"benefits") is a job poor Emanuel has coveted since he was a penniless Democrat machine go-fer back in the 1980s.....before he became (1) Bill Clinton's national campaign finance chairman and served a dual role as (2) Clinton's senior White House aide, AND, (3) a Goldman Sachs lobbyist.
After Rahm "accidentally" became a multi-millionaire, thanks to a measly few months at a Wall Street investment firm......he decided to run for Congress (was there for four terms).
Hard-scrabble Rahm's accidental stumble into politics culminated in Rahm picked as (1) Obama's White House chief of staff .... and a dual role as (2) Obama's hand-picked man at Treasury with an unarticulated "job description."
Later, when he left the WH--penniless, of course---Rahm held a presser declaring he "just remembered" he really, Really wanted to be Mayor of Chicago.
Then Rahm happily announced he had "accidentally" raised $30 million for his campaign "in just a matter of weeks."
Golly, I hope the poverty-stricken little bugger did not "accidentally" wire-transfer federal tax dollars offshore at the time he was in a dual role as Obama's COS AND in charge of the entire US Treasury.
Sob.
The minute Obama/Valerie/Rahm/Axelrod/Geithner, and that Practiced bunch of Chicago criminals, landed in the WH they did two things that were apparently crucial to their evil plans
(a) they took control of the US Census;
(b) Obama placed his COS Rahm Emanuel in control of the US Dept of the Treasury (cabinet-level agency oversees IRS).
THE SMOKING GUN---WSJ REPORT--On Jan 20, 2009 Timothy Geithner was appointed Obama's Secy of the Treasury. But within three weeks, the Obama White House tightened its grip on Treasury. Obama put his COS, Rahm Emanuel, in charge of Treasury---Rahm Emanuel's dual role was an unusual move.
When he got to Treasury, WH COS Rahm Emanuel was so involved in the inner workings of the Treasury that the phrase "Rahm wants it" had become an unofficial mantra among subservient govt staffers, prostrate in obeisance, scurrying to accede to Rahm's wishes, according to Treasury government officials. Reported by WSJ / 05/31/09
SOURCE http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124113406528875137.html