Posted on 03/13/2019 12:17:26 AM PDT by knighthawk
Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan fired back at New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a contentious hearing in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, after the freshman legislator accused the bank of "financing the caging of children" and suggested it should bear financial liability for everything from oil spills to climate change.
Ocasio-Cortez's inquiries come as activists increasingly seek to "deplatform" political opponents by cutting off their funding from banks and other financial services providers -- a concerted effort that conservatives and libertarians have said threatens free speech.
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., brought Sloan before the panel Tuesday as part of a broad, four-hour inquiry into widely reported fraudulent misconduct in recent years by Wells Fargo employees. But in questioning Sloan, who faced bipartisan criticism during the hearing, Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described Democratic socialist, quickly went much further.
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But you know, these corporate types seem to be enamored with the Left. You ever hear a peep out of them.
Perhaps these folks need to pull their head out of the ground, and start paying attention.
Do they not grasp what the Left wants to do with our economy, and that banks won’t fair very will?
Yes, a simply amazing question.
Politicising financial institutions
and their lending practices. What’s
next, gun manufacturers ?
People have got to stop the whole show and simply say “ that is the most idiotic question, Im not answering it and can I get a real adult to discuss serious topics?”
Amazing, simply amazing. AOC makes people feel sympathetic for a CEO of a major financial institution for having to listen to her stupid driveling questions! "When did you start funding the building of cages for children and why would you do such an evil thing?" And "Don’t you think Wells Fargo should be responsible for cleaning up all the environmental damage done by everything you financed since your stage coach horses pooped on the roads a 150 years ago, not to mention paying reparations to the families of all those independent entrepreneurial freelance toll men your thugs killed with shotguns preventing them from earning a living wage?" (OK, i’m Exaggerating a tad on her questions but her tone was similar.)
Goodness gracious. She would see any business that she does not like not be able to get a loan as gun manufacturers would be held responsible for gun deaths, McDonald’s responsible for bad health and breweries responsible for drunk driving deaths. I am sorry but I want to punch her. Settle Mel settle!
This evil, godless woman is a communist menace!
It boils down to only libtards can run their businesses based on their values. Otherwise government can crush you if you are running your business on your values that arent govt’s libtard values.
Such hypocrites. But thats really the foundation of socialism. Double standards, hypocrisy, lip service, saying one thing and doing the opposite. Accusing your enemies of doing what you do.
They already have pressured financial institutions into changing lending practices towards firearm manufacturers.
This is what socialism delivers....a gov’t that tells everyone what it is allowed and not allowed to do.
Oh, you can go loan money to explore for oil, but the punishment will be massive.
Remember when Obama promised that you can open a coal power plant, but we will bankrupt you? This is just the continuation of that.
....making friends and influencing future votes...*smiles*
It sounds like it must be Alex’s “time of the month.”
This is Stalinism, right out of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Good post..!!
Ocasio-Cortez is the kind of person who once upon a time would be invited to meet with Pelosi and other Dem leaders for dinner at Machus Red Fox.
The Dimms are literally creating a slow-motion explosion of themselves and their party. Love it!
The Brains Behind AOC Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h5iv6sECGU&feature=youtu.be
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lol
AOC also asked him why Wells Fargo didn’t pay for the clean up of a 2017 oil spill in S.Dak from the Keystone XL pipeline.
The Keystone XL pipeline hasn’t even been built!!
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