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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie nailed it: Wall Street is FRAUD. [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)2. DU, is the Sequester over?
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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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
The way I understand things, people on Wall Street are doing things that are flat out illegal.
brewens
Feb 2016
#12
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
Chuckie tried to dismiss it as silly by claiming it CAN'T be because pensions are in there....
Spitfire of ATJ
Feb 2016
#26
Some people get richest betting on the abject failing of the masses' investments.
valerief
Feb 2016
#28