Meet 3 Master Manipulators of America's Oligarchy
We bring you profiles of three financiers who never made a useful thing in their lives, including one who helped bring you the Enron disaster. They are united in their efforts to blame ordinary people for Wall Street-driven economic woes and carve out another pound of your flesh for the rich. Money is no object in their quest.
Here's a look at how these three made their money, how they're conning the public, and what they don't want you to know.
1. Stanley Druckenmiller
His stash: $2.9 billion, made from hedge funds.
His con: Turn young people against seniors by scapegoating Social Security and Medicare.....more
2. Peter G. Peterson
His stash: $1.5 billion, made from private equity.
His con: Stoke deficit hysteria in order to shrink the government and let the wild horses of capitalism trample the masses.....MORE
3. John Arnold
His stash: $2.8 billion, courtesy of Enron.
His con: Enrich Wall Street by blaming state budget crises on teachers, firefighters and other public workers.
If you were writing a movie script about unbridled capitalism, you could do no better than John Arnold as your villain.....MORE...
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...how Romney managed to squeeze an additional $10 million from the FDIC over a settlement he was negotiating (not illegal, just "hard bargaining"
in the 90s, I managed to dig up numbers for food stamps and public assistance in Massachusetts in the same time frame (within a year or two).
Using the numbers for a single mother with two kids, Romney's $10 million cost the taxpayers as much as over 1420 families (over 4000 people), or a like number of counts of fraud.
One guy, in one deal, at one time. Not the only deal, and not the biggest one either.
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For the next bit of fun, add up the net worth of politically-active billionaires and celebrities (to account for "rich Hollywood liberals" . It ain't even close, but funny how everyone knows "George Soros".
