'Katy Bar the Door!' VA DEM. SEN. MARK WARNER URGES RICH TO CHALLENGE POPULIST ANGER

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Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of VA urges business elites, "we need Entitlement Reform, we need Tax Reform, it generates revenue. If you don't get engaged, you're turning the keys over to the extremes." Sen. Mark Warner (D) of Virginia called on an audience of business and political elites to respond to public discontent by lobbying harder for the reduction of corporate taxes and the cutting of public programs like SOCIAL SECURITY. Warner spoke Monday at the Milken Institute’s 2016 Global Conference, May 1-4. The economic policy think tank gathers politicians, corporate executives and others annually.
*More: http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/democratic_sen_mark_warner_urges_the_rich_to_20160505

[CrispyQ]

1. Wall St. really wants that SS money.

The D brand is so tarnished I hardly recognize it.

[appalachiablue]

4. IT wants, it needs...mohr money!

[Kelvin Mace]

2. Another Vichy Democrat

shows his true allegiance.

[appalachiablue]

6. A special representative for sure...Close the gates, peasants rising!

[Kelvin Mace]

3. Oh, and isn't buying people like Mark Warner involvement enough?

[awoke_in_2003]

15. I said it in another thread...

they write the laws, and buy the politicians that pass them. How much more involved can they get?

[appalachiablue]

16. Warner's talk sounds like a call for Full Speed Ahead, a la Fast Track

with the next status quo executive, or Congress. Disturbing.

[djean111]

5. That "always vote for the "D"" order can be officially retired as utter bullshit now, amiright?

The Democratic Party is, for all intents and purposes, gone. Vanished. Vanquished. Stripped like a Mitt Romney-acquired company.
So completely taken over by the Third Way that the DNC is just jeering at us now.

And Hillary, IMO, has already started down the full-tilt Maggie Thatcher rat hole.

Not "uniting" with any of that. Looks like Hillary is FINALLY telling the truth, and wooing GOP voters.

[appalachiablue]

7. *Democratic Senator Mark Warner of VA Urges the Rich to Challenge Populist Anger

TRUTHDIG, May 5, 2016, *Democratic Sen. Mark Warner Urges the Rich to Challenge Populist Anger (Video)*

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia called on an audience of business and political elites to respond to public discontent by lobbying harder for the reduction of corporate taxes and the cutting of public programs like Social Security. Warner spoke Monday at the Milken Institute’s 2016 Global Conference. The economic policy think tank gathers politicians, corporate executives and others annually.

*Zaid Jilani writes at The Intercept:
Although a dominant populist sentiment is that the system is already rigged in favor of the rich, Warner suggested that the “business community” needs to get more involved in politics or face unpleasant repercussions.
“If you don’t think the frustration of Americans with our overall system — not just our political system, but our business system, our tax code — is at the boiling point, then KATY BAR THE DOOR!,” he said.
>“The walls that are gonna have to be built, may not be at borders, they may be around neighborhoods the way they are in many Third World countries around the world,” Warner warned. …
Warner’s panel on tax reform and the federal debt also includes Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., Ernst & Young CEO Mark Weinberger, and Maya MacGuineas, who chairs the corporate-backed lobbying group Fix The Debt.
Warner bemoaned that his years of efforts to strike a congressional “Grand Bargain” based on the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction plan had resulted in failure. …

Weinberger, for his part, complained that Congress is too responsive to the public. “In fact when I worked for [former Missouri Republican Senator] Jack Danforth many years ago, he had a great line. People think in Washington we’re so [disassociated], we’re so aloof, we’re so unconnected to the general public. Nothing could be further from the truth, quite frankly. And we want to do what they want us to do to get elected, in many cases.”
>He continued: “The problem is when you have candidates on both sides of the aisle attacking the corporate institution as all greedy and rich … And all not paying their fair share … all the institutions lose trust.” Continued.
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/democratic_sen_mark_warner_urges_the_rich_to_20160505

[ladjf]

8. Virginia needs to kick his ass out of office as soon as possible. nt

[appalachiablue]

9. Absolutely, corporate all the way. Trying to get this one K&R for visibility & to the greatest.

[ladjf]

10. Why do Americans continue to support such awful people? nt

[gopiscrap]

11. fuck Wall Street

[appalachiablue]

12. THE SOCIAL SAFETY NET, DEMOCRATS AND BILLIONAIRE PETE PETERSON.

TYT Cenk explains in 2011 BILL CLINTON Whispering to PAUL RYAN, GOP Budget Slasher About the recent election and CUTS TO MEDICARE at billionaire financier PETE PETERSON event. >Peterson, pictured with Clinton below, has been trying to get to the Social Security $2.3 Trillion Trust Fund for years.
- Ryan now wants to end Obamacare protections for people with *pre-existing conditions.





MEDICARE was enacted in 1965 during President Lyndon B. Johnson's Administration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(United_States)

Wiki: Peter George "PETE" PETERSON (Peter Petropoulos) (born June 5, 1926) is an American businessman, investment banker, fiscal conservative, philanthropist, and author, who served as United States Secretary of Commerce from February 29, 1972 to February 1, 1973. He is also known as founder and principal funder of The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, which he established in 2008 with a $1 billion endowment.
*The group focuses on raising public awareness about U.S. fiscal-sustainability issues related to FEDERAL DEFICITS, ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS, and TAX POLICIES. In recognition of his support, the influential Peterson Institute for International Economics was named in his honor in 2006.
Before serving as Secretary of Commerce, Peterson was Chairman and CEO of Bell & Howell, from 1963 to 1971. From 1973 to 1984 he was Chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers. In 1985 he co-founded the private equity firm, the Blackstone Group, which went public in 2007. Peterson was Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations until retiring in 2007, after being named chairman emeritus. In 2008, Peterson was ranked 149th on the "Forbes 400 Richest Americans" with a net worth of $2.8 billion.
*Peterson has been named the most influential billionaire in U.S. politics.
On August 4, 2010, it was announced that he had signed "The Giving Pledge." He was one of 40 billionaires, led by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, who agreed to give at least half their wealth to charity. Most of his giving has, however, been to his own foundation, dedicated to forwarding his political views rather than traditional charitable works.
WIKI, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_George_Peterson

More: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027787543 http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017366906

[appalachiablue]

13. WARNER'S a tech multi millionaire. Almost all are mills in Congress esp. the Senate, House of Lords.

- Sen. Mark Warner Speaking at the Campaign for America's Future event by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.

Wiki. In the early 1980s, Warner served as a staff member to U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd, also a Democrat from Connecticut. He later used his knowledge of federal telecommunication law and policies as a broker of mobile phone franchise licenses, making a significant fortune. As founder and managing director of Columbia Capital, a venture capital firm, he helped found or was an early investor in a number of technology companies. He was one of the early investors in Nextel, co-founded Capital Cellular Corporation, and built up an estimated net worth of more than $200 million. *As of 2012, he is the wealthiest U.S. Senator. WIKI, Mark Warner, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Warner

- PETE PETERSON, Wall Street Billionaire and Political Influence Empire.



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[Red Knight]

14. No mention of sustaining the middle class

It's about sustaining the wealthy class.

Build walls around their neighborhoods?

Yep. I can see just that very future. It's about THEIR interests and that isn't going to change.

He may have a "Democrat" label but he doesn't represent MY party.

[appalachiablue]

17. Nope, nada on the middle class. Walled neighborhoods, 10% v. 90%, at best.

Warner is something______.