Too Big To Jail - It Was An Inside Job

[thinbluemime2]

Too Big To Jail - It Was An Inside Job


Elizabeth Warren's Senate speech on the extreme influence of Citigroup in
the Executive Branch & US Govt
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/544606439059505152


Elizabeth Warren, directly to Citigroup: "I agree with you that Dodd-Frank
isn't perfect. It should have broken you into pieces."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzrBurlJUNk
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[BTR1701]

In article <op.xqx5j...@experience.woh.rr.com>,

thinbluemime2 <thinbl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Too Big To Jail - It Was An Inside Job
>
>
> Elizabeth Warren's Senate speech on the extreme influence of Citigroup in
> the Executive Branch & US Govt
> https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/544606439059505152
>
>
> Elizabeth Warren, directly to Citigroup: "I agree with you that Dodd-Frank
> isn't perfect. It should have broken you into pieces."

What's Fauxcahontas up to now?

(I'd pay real money if the White House could work in a "Democrats are
circling the wagons with regard to Warren" comment somewhere.)

[thinbluemime2]

Warren continues to claim she is not running for Prez in 2016. Supporters
took an indirect poke at Clinton's exorbitant speaking fee with a clever
$25 Warren T-Shirt.

http://redalertpolitics.com/2014/12/03/elizabeth-warren-best-senator-money-cant-buy-hero-rich-liberal-donors/

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[BTR1701]

In article <op.xqx8e...@experience.woh.rr.com>,

thinbluemime2 <thinbl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 01:44:16 -0500, BTR1701 <atr...@mac.com> wrote:
>
> > In article <op.xqx5j...@experience.woh.rr.com>,
> > thinbluemime2 <thinbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Too Big To Jail - It Was An Inside Job
> >>
> >>
> >> Elizabeth Warren's Senate speech on the extreme influence of Citigroup
> >> in
> >> the Executive Branch & US Govt
> >> https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/544606439059505152
> >>
> >>
> >> Elizabeth Warren, directly to Citigroup: "I agree with you that
> >> Dodd-Frank
> >> isn't perfect. It should have broken you into pieces."
> >
> > What's Fauxcahontas up to now?
> >
> > (I'd pay real money if the White House could work in a "Democrats are
> > circling the wagons with regard to Warren" comment somewhere.)
>
> Warren continues to claim she is not running for Prez in 2016.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88475764/Warren.jpg

[thinbluemime2]

It could have been worse for Warren. She could have been a member of the
tribe like John Kerry or Madeleine Albright and not known.

http://forward.com/articles/141557/joining-the-tribe-late-in-life-the-ever-widening/

[FPP]

?

'Cause that whole "Indian" thing worked out so well for Scott Brown...
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[trotsky]

Do you need help with the Dodd-Frank bill, Thanny?

[trotsky]

I can see why you make fun--we've got Warren, and you've got Ted Cruz.
And you're too fucking stupid to feel embarrassed.

[anim8rFSK]

In article <atropos-760822...@news-europe.giganews.com>,

BTR1701 <atr...@mac.com> wrote:

> In article <op.xqx8e...@experience.woh.rr.com>,
> thinbluemime2 <thinbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 01:44:16 -0500, BTR1701 <atr...@mac.com> wrote:
> >
> > > In article <op.xqx5j...@experience.woh.rr.com>,
> > > thinbluemime2 <thinbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Too Big To Jail - It Was An Inside Job
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Elizabeth Warren's Senate speech on the extreme influence of Citigroup
> > >> in
> > >> the Executive Branch & US Govt
> > >> https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/544606439059505152
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Elizabeth Warren, directly to Citigroup: "I agree with you that
> > >> Dodd-Frank
> > >> isn't perfect. It should have broken you into pieces."
> > >
> > > What's Fauxcahontas up to now?
> > >
> > > (I'd pay real money if the White House could work in a "Democrats are
> > > circling the wagons with regard to Warren" comment somewhere.)
> >
> > Warren continues to claim she is not running for Prez in 2016.
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88475764/Warren.jpg

heh

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[thinbluemime2]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:58:35 -0500, thinbluemime2
<thinbl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Too Big To Jail - It Was An Inside Job
>
>
> Elizabeth Warren's Senate speech on the extreme influence of Citigroup
> in the Executive Branch & US Govt
> https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/544606439059505152
>
>
> Elizabeth Warren, directly to Citigroup: "I agree with you that
> Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. It should have broken you into pieces."
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzrBurlJUNk

"Look Mom...No Future"




Congress changes savings accounts and retirement funds, and America sleeps
Tess Vigeland 16 December 2014
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/dec/16/budget-sets-stage-for-next-meltdown



Do you remember where you were six years ago? Probably not. It was a long,
long time ago. December 2008 is not one of those dates that gets burned on
your brain, like the moon landing, or D-Day, or the end of Seinfeld.

But I remember where I was. I was at my post as the host of a personal
finance show on national radio, and I was taking calls from people all
over the country who were a) furious that their tax dollars were siphoned
off to pay for a massive bank bailout that crashed the world economy, and
b) outraged that the stock market was responding by wiping out their
already-meager retirement and college education savings funds.

In December 2008, the number of jobs shrank by 533,000, the worst monthly
loss in more than 30 years. Construction permits fell by more than 12% as
people stopped buying houses. And retailers got a giant lump of coal from
consumers, who decided that buying a bunch of worthless junk to put under
a tree was probably not the best idea when their bank accounts – not the
mention the country’s – were circling the drain.

“This shall not stand!” we cried, then. “We can never allow our own
savings to be put at risk like this!”

And yet. Here we are again.

Congress has passed, and President Obama has said he would sign, a budget
bill that allows banks to use your savings when they make giant financial
bets called derivatives. Again.

And because those savings are insured by the federal government, you, the
taxpayer, would be on the hook if those bets go south. Again.

This isn’t arcane financial stuff we can ignore. These are the exact
financial mechanisms that led to the global crisis just six (short!) years
ago. The Dodd-Frank reform law that was passed in the wake of that crisis
forbade this from ever happening.


///


While you were sleeping
They came and took it all away
The lanes and the meadows
The places where you used to play

It was an inside job
By the well-connected
Your little protest
Summarily rejected

It was an inside job
Like it always is
Chalk it up
To business as usual

And they'll keep doin' it and doin' it
Doin' it, doin' it, doin' it
Doin' it, doin' it, doin' it
Until we all wake up
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up

[thinbl...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 at 12:57:24 AM UTC-5, thinbluemime2 wrote:
> Too Big To Jail - It Was An Inside Job
>
>
> Elizabeth Warren's Senate speech on the extreme influence of Citigroup in
> the Executive Branch & US Govt
> https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/544606439059505152
>
>
> Elizabeth Warren, directly to Citigroup: "I agree with you that Dodd-Frank
> isn't perfect. It should have broken you into pieces."
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzrBurlJUNk

Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein: Sanders candidacy a 'dangerous moment'
By ELIZA COLLINS 02/03/16
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/lloyd-blankfein-bernie-sanders-218689


The head of Goldman Sachs said on Wednesday that Bernie Sanders' insurgent candidacy "has the potential to be a dangerous moment."

[thinbl...@gmail.com]

Why Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein Called Bernie Sanders "Dangerous"
Jon Schwarz Feb. 8 2016
https://theintercept.com/2016/02/08/why-goldman-ceo-lloyd-blankfein-called-sanders-dangerous/



Lloyd Blankfein, longtime CEO of Goldman Sachs, didn't like what Bernie Sanders said about him in early January, and he fired back on CNBC's "Squawkbox" last week, saying Sanders' critique "has the potential to be a dangerous moment."

But there's more to that story than it appears. It's not simply that Sanders uses Blankfein as a symbol of the "greed of Wall Street" -- it's that Sanders does so while highlighting the evocative contrast between the 2008 bailout of Wall Street and Blankfein's public advocacy for cuts to entitlements.

Sanders took offense when Blankfein, in a 2012 segment on "60 Minutes," said, "You're going to have to undoubtedly do something to lower people's expectations" that they will get their full Social Security and Medicare benefits because "we can't afford it." Blankfein advocated an increase in the eligibility age for both programs as well as other cuts because "entitlements have to be slowed down and contained."

Soon afterward, Sanders excoriated Blankfein in a speech from the floor of the Senate titled "The Face of Class Warfare":

SANDERS: Sometimes there is no end to arrogance. ... Lloyd Blankfein is the CEO of Goldman Sachs. ... During the financial crisis Goldman Sachs received a total of $814 billion in virtually zero-interest loans from the Federal Reserve and a $10 billion bailout from the Treasury Department. ... And now with his huge wealth he is coming here to Washington to lecture the American people on how we have got to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid for tens of millions of Americans who are struggling now to keep their heads above water.

Just a few weeks ago on Bloomberg TV Sanders returned to the subject, citing Blankfein as a Wall Street executive who "really irks me" because such executives "make huge sums of money, help destroy our economy, they come to Congress and you know what they say? They say, 'You've got to cut Social Security and you've got to cut Medicare and you've got to cut Medicaid.'"

That's what Blankfein was responding to on CNBC last week when he said, "To personalize it, it has the potential to be a dangerous moment, not just for Wall Street, not just for the people are particularly targeted but for anybody who is a little bit out of line."

And so that's why Sanders' remarks concern Blankfein: No one on Wall Street wants someone running for president asking why the United States "can't afford" Social Security and Medicare but could afford to bail them out.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_iM97ggx70

[Ed Stasiak]

> thinbl...@gmail.com

>
> SANDERS: Sometimes there is no end to arrogance. ... Lloyd Blankfein is the CEO
> of Goldman Sachs. ... During the financial crisis Goldman Sachs received a total of
> $814 billion in virtually zero-interest loans from the Federal Reserve and a $10 billion
> bailout from the Treasury Department. ... And now with his huge wealth he is coming
> here to Washington to lecture the American people on how we have got to cut Social
> Security, Medicare, and Medicaid for tens of millions of Americans who are struggling
> now to keep their heads above water.

Too bad Sanders doesn't display the same common sense when it comes American's
right to keep & bear arms.

[Rhino]

As I understand it, Sanders actually has a surprisingly pro-Second
Amendment record in Vermont, which pundits say has a lot to do with his
repeated electoral successes in a heavily pro-gun state.

I don't know what he's saying on the campaign trail about guns - most
Leftists are enthusiastic about encroaching on guns and gun ownership -
but articles I've read on conservative websites say he's a lot less
anti-gun than most other Democrats.

Of course I have no doubt that this is only a compromise he's made to
get elected and re-elected and that if he were free to vote his
conscience, he'd be among the gun-grabbers. I think he's much like Obama
on gay marriage: he only pretended to be against it when that was where
most people sat in the polls. In his heart, I think he was for it long
before he became President.

--
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[FPP]

What? Do you even know Bernie Sanders record on guns?

The biggest stick Hillary has used to hit Bernie over and over is his
PRO gun voting record.
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[Ed Stasiak]

> FPP
> > Ed Stasiak

> >
> > Too bad Sanders doesn't display the same common sense when
> > it comes American's right to keep & bear arms.
>
> What? Do you even know Bernie Sanders record on guns?
> The biggest stick Hillary has used to hit Bernie over and over is his
> PRO gun voting record.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-guns_us_55b54b5fe4b0a13f9d18e1a5

"On Sunday, Sanders dismissed criticism from Democrats on his prior opposition
to gun control measures and defended his support for universal background checks,
a ban on assault weapons and closing the gun show loophole.

"Nobody should have a gun who has a criminal background, was involved in domestic
abuse situations. People should not have guns who are going to hurt other people,
who are unstable," he said. "And second of all, I believe that we need to make sure
that certain types of guns used to kill people exclusively -- not for hunting -- they
should not be sold in the United States of America."

Winning an election in his home state of Vermont is one thing but now that he's
playing the national game, he's playing the same tired old Dem tune when it comes
to guns.

[FPP]

Of course. It's the same tune they ALL play - and Bernie is no
different from any other career politician.

Those who think he's pure as the driven snow should realize that there
have been many, many drivers :-)
--
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

[thinbl...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 9:58:24 PM UTC-5, FPP wrote:
> On 2016-02-10 21:04:04 -0500, Ed Stasiak <esta...@att.net> said:
>
> >> FPP
> >>> Ed Stasiak

> Of course. It's the same tune they ALL play - and Bernie is no
> different from any other career politician.
>
> Those who think he's pure as the driven snow should realize that

> there have been many, many drivers

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/9a/26/c3/9a26c365478155d8d9091043ced737fb.jpg

:P

[Ed Stasiak]

> FPP
> > Ed Stasiak

> >
> > Sunday, Sanders dismissed criticism from Democrats on his prior opposition
> > to gun control measures and defended his support for universal background
> > checks, a ban on assault weapons and closing the gun show loophole.
>

> Of course. It's the same tune they ALL play - and Bernie is no different from
> any other career politician.

Then why should anybody vote for him?

Either he's an opportunistic hypocrite who wants to ban guns, or he's a moron
who wants to ban guns (both, I suspect...)

Based on his previous position in Vermont, he had an opportunity to set himself
apart from Hillary in the presidential race but instead, just spews the same bullshit.

[FPP]

You should vote for him (or anybody else) because, on balance, they're
going to make your life better.

Nobody's banning guns. If that's your main criteria, you can just
about vote for anybody.

And if you're looking for honesty, I suggest you get a dog... because
you're never going to find that quality in any politician.
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Fox News.

[trotsky]

On 2/10/16 8:58 PM, FPP wrote:
> On 2016-02-10 21:04:04 -0500, Ed Stasiak <esta...@att.net> said:

>> Winning an election in his home state of Vermont is one thing but now
>> that he's
>> playing the national game, he's playing the same tired old Dem tune
>> when it comes
>> to guns.
>
> Of course. It's the same tune they ALL play - and Bernie is no
> different from any other career politician.

That's not what the Bernie Bros. keep telling me.

[trotsky]

On 2/10/16 5:46 PM, FPP wrote:
> On 2016-02-10 08:17:38 -0500, Ed Stasiak <esta...@att.net> said:
>
>>> thinbl...@gmail.com
>>>
>>> SANDERS: Sometimes there is no end to arrogance. ... Lloyd Blankfein
>>> is the CEO
>>> of Goldman Sachs. ... During the financial crisis Goldman Sachs
>>> received a total of
>>> $814 billion in virtually zero-interest loans from the Federal
>>> Reserve and a $10 billion
>>> bailout from the Treasury Department. ... And now with his huge
>>> wealth he is coming
>>> here to Washington to lecture the American people on how we have got
>>> to cut Social
>>> Security, Medicare, and Medicaid for tens of millions of Americans
>>> who are struggling
>>> now to keep their heads above water.
>>
>> Too bad Sanders doesn't display the same common sense when it comes
>> American's
>> right to keep & bear arms.
>
> What? Do you even know Bernie Sanders record on guns?

Watch him ask you if it was a 33 or a 45.

[BTR1701]

FPP <fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2016-02-11 05:27:06 +0000, Ed Stasiak <esta...@att.net> said:
>
>>> FPP
>>>> Ed Stasiak
>>>>
>>>> Sunday, Sanders dismissed criticism from Democrats on his prior opposition
>>>> to gun control measures and defended his support for universal background
>>>> checks, a ban on assault weapons and closing the gun show loophole.
>>>
>>> Of course. It's the same tune they ALL play - and Bernie is no different from
>>> any other career politician.
>>
>> Then why should anybody vote for him?
>>
>> Either he's an opportunistic hypocrite who wants to ban guns, or he's a moron
>> who wants to ban guns (both, I suspect...)
>>
>> Based on his previous position in Vermont, he had an opportunity to set himself
>> apart from Hillary in the presidential race but instead, just spews the
>> same bullshit.
>
> You should vote for him (or anybody else) because, on balance, they're
> going to make your life better.

You're an idiot if you think any politician will make your life better.
*You* should make your life better, not rely on the government to do it for
you.

[Barb May]

Riiight. Because government has no control over things that affect your
quality of life. So if you live in Flint, MI it's your fault if your
children have brain damage because you failed to do your own water
testing and purification. Only an idiot would expect the government to
insure that the water supply to their house was safe.

--
Barb

[trotsky]

Cliven Bundy, is that you?

[BTR1701]

There's a difference between solving your problems for you and actively
attacking you, "Barb May". You shouldn't expect the former, but you ought
to expect the latter.

[FPP]

You're an idiot, period.

Typical right wing claptrap. Rig the game, and then blame the players
for not doing better.
--
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Conservatives think it takes a family to raise a child.
Children are actually being raised by TV, video games, and the Internet.

[FPP]

There's a difference between giving a shit about your fellow
countryman, and being a conservative.

Got a great little slogan for you, here...

Eat Tainted Meat
Drink Tainted Water
Breathe Tainted Air
Vote Republican

--
If "Con" is the opposite of "Pro", then isn't Congress the opposite of
Progress? -J.Stewart

[FPP]

On 2016-02-11 11:57:08 -0500, BTR1701 <addre...@invalid.invalid> said:

As Bill Clinton once said:

"If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat."
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[Ed Stasiak]

> FPP

>
> Got a great little slogan for you, here...

https://gmoawareness.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/monsanto-us-government.jpg

[Ed Stasiak]

> FPP

>
> As Bill Clinton once said:

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/10/10-clinton-nafta.o.jpg/a_560x375.jpg

[FPP]

Hillary hasn't worked for the Rose Law firm for 24 years, now...

> 1976-1992 - Attorney at Rose Law Firm, Little Rock, Arkansas.
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[hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com]

On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 11:57:11 AM UTC-5, BTR1701 wrote:

> You're an idiot if you think any politician will make your life better.
> *You* should make your life better, not rely on the government to do it for
> you.

There are a million ways government has made our lives better, both
directly, such as protecting us from tainted foods and medicine, or
preventing banks from cheating us too much.

Government has also provided us public schools and aid to colleges so
that we can build ourselves up.

Unfortunately, today, conservatives want to eliminate all government
regulation and turn back the clock to the days of the robber barons,
like Rockefeller, Carnegie, etc. Conservatives somehow think having
workers as mere serfs is somehow a good thing.

[Barb May]

Heh. It is a good thing...for rich people.

--
Barb

[FPP]

Conservatives seem to think that polluting the air *I* breathe, the
water *I* drink, the products *I* buy, etc., etc., etc. is their right,
in the name of Freedom.

I want the government to protect me from THOSE assholes, as well as the
assholes with suicide vests.
--
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting
where you heard it. -LJ Peter

[anim8rfsk]

In article <0b1bb4d4-1937-4c97...@googlegroups.com>,

Ed Stasiak <esta...@att.net> wrote:

> > FPP
> > > Ed Stasiak
> > >
> > > Too bad Sanders doesn't display the same common sense when
> > > it comes American's right to keep & bear arms.
> >
> > What? Do you even know Bernie Sanders record on guns?
> > The biggest stick Hillary has used to hit Bernie over and over is his
> > PRO gun voting record.
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-guns_us_55b54b5fe4b0a13f9d1
> 8e1a5
>
> "On Sunday, Sanders dismissed criticism from Democrats on his prior
> opposition
> to gun control measures and defended his support for universal background
> checks,
> a ban on assault weapons and closing the gun show loophole.
>
> "Nobody should have a gun who has a criminal background, was involved in
> domestic
> abuse situations.

What a maroon. Victims are involved in domestic abuse situations.

People should not have guns who are going to hurt other
> people,

Wow, he just gets stupider and stupider

> who are unstable," he said. "And second of all, I believe that we need to
> make sure
> that certain types of guns used to kill people exclusively -- not for hunting
> -- they
> should not be sold in the United States of America."
>
> Winning an election in his home state of Vermont is one thing but now that
> he's
> playing the national game, he's playing the same tired old Dem tune when it
> comes
> to guns.

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[Adam H. Kerman]

hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 11:57:11 AM UTC-5, BTR1701 wrote:

>>You're an idiot if you think any politician will make your life better.
>>*You* should make your life better, not rely on the government to do it for
>>you.

>There are a million ways government has made our lives better, both
>directly, such as protecting us from tainted foods and medicine, or
>preventing banks from cheating us too much.

This may be the single most idiotic thing you've ever posted to Usenet. Banks?

>Government has also provided us public schools and aid to colleges so
>that we can build ourselves up.

Once upon a time, high schools were better and people who had graduated
were actually qualified to work decent jobs. Today, high schools suck and
it's rather difficult to get a decent job without a college education. Hence
the demand is a lot higher for college now than in the past.

>Unfortunately, today, conservatives want to eliminate all government
>regulation and turn back the clock to the days of the robber barons,
>like Rockefeller, Carnegie, etc. Conservatives somehow think having
>workers as mere serfs is somehow a good thing.

And yet, they didn't have as much of a stranglehold on the economy as
their counterparts today do.

[anim8rfsk]

In article <n9orjg$ehn$1...@news.albasani.net>,

Why are you even condescending to talk to this idiot troll?

[Barb May]

Irony!
--
Barb