rich people are ruining America, & they're not done yet

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let me begin by saying this is not a criticism of Donald Trump, but of folks like The Koch Brothers.

while rich folks don't announce their intentions on the front page of newspapers, their goal is clear. they want to move America into an oligarchic form of society in which all economic and political power rests with a handful of billionaire families. they want to make it impossible for ordinary americans to improve their lives. tragically, they are succeeding.

we must make our choice. we either have democracy, or we have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Money is pretty much over-rated in politics. When you have such poor choices, NO amount of money is gonna fix that. Trump showed you don't need focus groups, ad consultants, tons of cash. You need to know HOW to get coverage. Even if the coverage is sometimes ludicrous.

Imagine what principled, focused people could do to run cheaper campaigns that work. There are endless possiblities. ONE is just promise to END the senseless mind-numbing warfare between the Dems and Reps by electing folks that what BOTH parties -- out of town by High Noon...

there's this thing called "dialing for dollars", a totally humiliating experience for candidates. they are given a piece of paper with the names of potential donors, most of whom the candidate has never met. an aide dials the number to expedite the process. they spend hours and hours doing this, instead of working on behalf of the people.

You voted for a billionaire who packed his cabinet with billionaires and yet you believe they will run the country to benefit the middle class.

Trump is lining his own pockets as fast as he can.

You mean like Bitchlery, Obambi and Bernie?

 

[basquebromance]

"We all do better when we all do better" - Paul Wellstone

so simple & true. it's like a haiku!

 

[basquebromance]

here's the only "collusion" i've found:

leading up to the 08 recession, the 3 major credit rating agencies gave inflated triple A ratings to risky and worthless mortgage-backed securities and derivatives, even though they knew the ratings were bogus. without those ratings, investors, including 401k administrators would never have bought them. the reason they were able to get these ratings is wall street pays for them.

the credit rating folks COLLUDED, COLLUDED, COLLUDED with Wall Street, because that's where the money was.

 

[flacaltenn]

let me get to The Koch Brothers.

they have a private political machine that rivals, & threatens to subsume, the Republican party.

the Kochs spent $750 million in 2016, more than both the RNC & the DNC combined.

the Kochs want to abolish ALL TAXATION. that's one of their stated goals. here are some of their other goals (these are from the 1980 Libertarian Party platform, written by the Koch Brothers themselves):

_"we favor abolishing Medicare & Medicaid"

_"we favor abolishing the oppressive Social Security system"

_"we support abolishing the minimum wage"

_"we oppose all government welfare"

the next time you see a glitzy ad funded by the Kochs professing to care about the issues facing ordinary Americans, remember what they really stand for and what kind of America the Kochs want.

The 1980 Libertarian platform was written by a bunch of anarchists. The Anarchists no longer write our platforms.. In 1980, the goal was not to ACTUALLY nominate and support people to serve. But since then, we've focused on actually GOVERNING --- rather than being a "debating society"..

 

[LogikAndReazon]

Its third world immigrants and social welfare parasites that make America great !!! Lol

 

[basquebromance]

Its third world immigrants and social welfare parasites that make America great !!! Lol

they are ruining america too.

 

[basquebromance]

JP Morgan, Bank Of America, and Well Fargo are 80 percent bigger than when we bailed them out. what would happen if they failed today? the bailout would cost double than last time.

the 6 largest banks issue 2/3rds of credit cards and 40 percent of mortgages. they control 95 percent of derivatives and hold 40 percent of bank deposits. their assets equal 60 percent of our GDP.

if TR, the Republican trustbuster, were alive today, he would say: "BREAK. THOSE. DAMN. BANKS. UP." and the crowd would chant "BREAK EM UP! BREAK EM UP! BREAK EM UP!"

banking should be boring.

 

[basquebromance]

eric holder testified about the possibilty of jailin wall street folks: "i am concerned that the size of these banks becomes so large that it becomes impossible to prosecute them, because it would have a negative impact on the US & world economy"

LITERALLY, not only are banks too big to fail, their executives are too big to jail.

after quitting as AG, Holder returned to a big law firm, Covington & Burling, whose clients just so happen to include JPMorgan, Bank of America, citigroup, and Wells Fargo.

 

[basquebromance]

rich folks have no qualms about living in a country that turns its back on the sick and the poor i.e. the people who Christ loved