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Octafish

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9. Yeah, see. It's all legal-like, see.

Reply to KG (Reply #5)

Sun Mar 2, 2014, 10:19 AM

Mar 2014

Yeah. We right the laws, see?

I mean, "write." Who you lookin' at?

Many large corporations with a strong incentive to influence public policy award bonuses and other incentive pay to executives if they take jobs within the government. CitiGroup, for instance, provides an executive contract that awards additional retirement pay upon leaving to take a “full time high level position with the U.S. government or regulatory body.” Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, the Blackstone Group, Fannie Mae, Northern Trust, and Northrop Grumman are among the other firms that offer financial rewards upon retirement for government service.

SOURCE w/links and details: http://www.republicreport.org/2014/big-banks-tpp/

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If TPP is so good for us, why does Wall Street pay negotiators millions in bonuses? [View all] Octafish Mar 2014 OP

K&R woo me with science Mar 2014 #1

Top 10 TPP myths used by U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman Octafish Mar 2014 #4

+1 jsr Mar 2014 #12

Froman's exit payment from Citi was *conditional* on accepting a high level government post. pa28 Mar 2014 #2

For some reason, Corporate McPravda is not telling this part of the TPP story. Octafish Mar 2014 #6

Good Grief... KoKo Mar 2014 #3

Obama TPP Trade Officials Received Hefty Bonuses from Big Banks Octafish Mar 2014 #7

oh c'mon. we don't even know what's in it! why should we be again' it? KG Mar 2014 #5

Yeah, see. It's all legal-like, see. Octafish Mar 2014 #9

If it were good for most people.. sendero Mar 2014 #8

That would be the Democratic thing to do. Octafish Mar 2014 #10

If the TPP is so good for us, why not more transparency? octoberlib Mar 2014 #11

Because we peasants don't know how to read jsr Mar 2014 #13

That's due to teachers' unions. Octafish Mar 2014 #15

Democracy and the Republic require transparency. Octafish Mar 2014 #16

TPP Will Have Strong Environmental Protections; Then Immediately Denies Saying That Ichingcarpenter Mar 2014 #14

''...he's doing what he's always done best: talking out of both sides of his mouth...'' Octafish Mar 2014 #17

Its all the little pieces we add up Ichingcarpenter Mar 2014 #18

It's no pony and it smells like sulfur... Octafish Mar 2014 #19

If the big boys are for it then you know we're going to get screwed. hobbit709 Mar 2014 #20

Guy who hired Tim Geithner to bail out the banksters got set for LIFE. Octafish Mar 2014 #21