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How Corrupt Is the American Government?
See For Yourself
Posted on January 5, 2016 by WashingtonsBlog
Government corruption has become rampant:
Senior SEC employees spent up to 8 hours a day surfing porn sites instead of cracking down on financial crimes
Nuclear Regulatory Commission workers watch porn instead of cracking down on unsafe conditions at nuclear plants
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A high-level Federal Reserve official says quantitative easing is the greatest backdoor Wall Street bailout of all time
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Congress recently told the courts that Congress cant be investigated for insider trading
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The Bush White House worked hard to smear CIA officers, bloggers and anyone else who criticized the Iraq war
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http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/01/corrupt-american-government.html
wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)...and after the second item stopped to share.
Wow!
valerief
(53,235 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Good eye, valerief. The official on the right may hold the entire Gross National Product of 1931 on his hair.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Best part is the author names names, put events in context and places dates.
I had to share, Smarmie Doofus.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)*Share* that is.
Morning kick for exposure.
People need to know about this stuff.
Hotler
(11,421 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Seeing how the Have-Mores get to cheat when they already got enough to get ahead makes me really angry.
He said for those without integrity, a pot of gold awaits...
Neil Barofsky Gave Us The Best Explanation For Washington's Dysfunction We've Ever Heard
Linette Lopez
Business Insider, Aug. 1, 2012, 2:57 PM
Neil Barofsky was the Inspector General for TARP, and just wrote a book about his time in D.C. called Bailout: An Insider Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street.
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Bottom line: Barofsky said the incentive structure in our nation's capitol is all wrong. There's a revolving door between bureaucrats in Washington and Wall Street banks, and politicians just want to keep their jobs.
For regulators it's something like this:
[font color="green"]"You can play ball and good things can happen to you get a big pot of gold at the end of the Wall Street rainbow or you can do your job be aggressive and face personal ruin...We really need to rethink how we govern and how regulate," Barofsky said.[/font color]
CONTINUED... http://www.businessinsider.com/neil-barofsky-2012-8
...For those with integrity, along for the rest of us who try to do an honest day's work, it's Austerity Time. For. Ever.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)I know bank finds it so odd when I uh a depositor writes a check that doesn't have money in my uh their account that they report it to the cops.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)For example:
One can only speculate that the stuff hidden from public view is worse. Like lying America into war.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Great article, that. We are seeing the cockroaches exposed, WiilyT.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)And to think...
It was the military the developed the Internet.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)qwlauren35
(6,148 posts)No idea why the first 20 line items focused on sex. Yes, there's corruption, but I don't see how that's related to watching porn.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)From Line 1 down is absent.
Missed the lines regarding the Banksters? No problemo.
Yeah, see.
Feb. 28, 2008:
Know your BFEE: They Looted Your Nations S&Ls for Power and Profit
Then, after the Bankstershitstorm in September 21, 2008, I asked them who stole it to put it back:
Know your BFEE: Phil Gramm, the Meyer Lansky of the War Party, Set-Up the Biggest Bank Heist Ever.
What's weird is how, rather than the jail cell he so richly deserved, Phil Gramm ended up as Vice Chairman of UBS -- the Swiss Bank that received about $59 Billion with a Billion in TARP funds -- from where Gramm hired Bill Clinton, who signed into law the repeal of Glass Steagall. Since then, they've also brought in George W Bush to specialize in Wealth Management:
http://financialservicesinc.ubs.com/revitalizingamerica/SenatorPhilGramm.html
Like a bonus.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Morgan Stanley (Stock Quote: MS) only earned $1.7 billion last year, received $10 billion in bailout funds, then paid $4.475 billion in bonuses, nearly three times their net income.
JPMorgan Chase (Stock Quote: JPM) only earned $5.6 billion in 2008 and received $25 billion from the government, but it paid out $8.69 billion in bonus money.
Citigroup (Stock Quote: C) and Merrill Lynch suffered a combined $54 billion in losses in 2008. The banks received a total of $55 billion in bailouts and paid out $9 billion in combined bonuses.
Source
Source
Octafish
(55,745 posts)SOURCE
UBS received $287 Billion bailout...and Phil Gramm still talks slow.
Remember how fast Bushler distanced himself from Kenny Boy? That was when all that HARKEN SEC brouhaha was bubbling up, again. Then, just before sentencing, Kenny left this mortal toil? Too sad.
Federal Reserve Directors' Banks and Businesses Took $4 Trillion in Bailouts -- Sanders FED Audit
PS: Here's the Buy-partisan ENRON angle:
Lieberman in ENRON Land
PPS: I know it's old news to you, Scoob. Must think of future generations...
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Plus the capital letters for added effect while showing the colors and bleating without a single source for the plausible denial.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7489637
Just don't call them "Wall Street."
mrdmk
(2,943 posts)Most of this is remember after glancing at the one sentence introductions.
Now there is pondering on my part has too why people want to question the government and their corporate cronies.
The time is now to get money out of electing our public officials. That would be a good start...
K & R
JEB
(4,748 posts)Quite the list all with links to recent articles.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,362 posts)Thanks for the thread, Octafish.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Way to go, Octafish!
Duppers
(28,120 posts)I've several links pulled up and am still reading.
You're a treasure, Octafish!
niyad
(113,306 posts)Ivan Kaputski
(528 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)brought us.