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Octafish

(55,745 posts)
2. DU, is the Sequester over?
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 01:24 PM
Feb 2016

It's crazy, we don't invest in people, but give tax breaks to those who don't need breaks -- let alone, letting off the hook those individuals who threw millions of families out on the street illegally. And no one goes to jail for lying America into illegal, immoral, unnecessary and disastrous wars -- for profit.


SANDERS: Let me just say this. Wall Street is perhaps the most powerful economic and political force in this country. You have companies like Goldman Sachs, who just recently paid a settlement fine with the federal government for $5 billion for defrauding investors.

Goldman Sachs was one of those companies whose illegal activity helped destroy our economy and ruin the lives of millions of Americans. But this is what a rigged economy and a corrupt campaign finance system and a broken criminal justice is about. These guys are so powerful that not one of the executives on Wall Street has been charged with anything after paying, in this case of Goldman Sachs, a $5 billion fine.

Kid gets caught with marijuana, that kid has a police record. A Wall Street executive destroys the economy, $5 billion settlement with the government, no criminal record. That is what power is about. That is what corruption is about. And that is what has to change in the United States of America.
-- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/04/sanders-clinton-debate-transcript-annotating-what-they-say/


Vietnam was for profit, too. Dulles Brothers sided with the French colonialist masters, even offered to nuke them to keep a lid on the tin, etc.

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...a government that delivers austerity? Ferd Berfel Feb 2016 #1
DU, is the Sequester over? Octafish Feb 2016 #2
Fucking Alan Dulles sided with the Nazis. Fuddnik Feb 2016 #7
Excellent book.. Truth! mountain grammy Feb 2016 #16
Yes, so true, and Ho Chi Minh was never our enemy.. mountain grammy Feb 2016 #17
Special interests.. speaktruthtopower Feb 2016 #29
$6.8 billion in tax savings for just one hedge fund amborin Feb 2016 #3
What would Goldman think of that? Octafish Feb 2016 #4
I'm a huge Jim Simons fan. One of the most brilliant humans of all time. Lucky Luciano Feb 2016 #13
Is he a friend of William K. Black, too? He'd make a great AG as he knows what Fraud is. Octafish Feb 2016 #32
What the savings in taxation to ONE Hedge Fund could buy the American People... MrMickeysMom Feb 2016 #5
Hillary will tell them to cut out their shenanigans mindwalker_i Feb 2016 #6
Just like Obama did in '08! No socialism for the 99.99 percent! Octafish Feb 2016 #21
Been saying that for some time now, he has. n/t dixiegrrrrl Feb 2016 #8
Yes, he did. nt antigop Feb 2016 #9
When he said that at the debate... Ned_Devine Feb 2016 #10
That and the dreaded media Marty McGraw Feb 2016 #20
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Feb 2016 #11
The way I understand things, people on Wall Street are doing things that are flat out illegal. brewens Feb 2016 #12
K & R for the whole thread. Duppers Feb 2016 #14
Matt Taibi's article today ymetca Feb 2016 #15
Wow! Matt succinctly nailed it! Duppers Feb 2016 #24
Clinton via CNN now saying, why would WS be running $6 million ads against me if they didn't Jefferson23 Feb 2016 #18
The comfort of the rich depends on an abundant supply of the poor. Voltaire Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2016 #19
Hence their "pro-life" movement? ErikJ Feb 2016 #23
A valid observation. Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2016 #25
Bernie was found guilty of fraud and went to jail. ErikJ Feb 2016 #22
Chuckie tried to dismiss it as silly by claiming it CAN'T be because pensions are in there.... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2016 #26
It's gambling with OUR money. Heads they win, tails WE lose. nt Romulox Feb 2016 #27
Some people get richest betting on the abject failing of the masses' investments. valerief Feb 2016 #28
K&R Jenny_92808 Feb 2016 #30
Go Bernie! jonestonesusa Feb 2016 #31
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