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GoLeft TV

(3,910 posts)
Tue Jun 16, 2015, 02:11 PM Jun 2015

Bloodsucking Banksters Want Another Bailout and YOU Will Pay for It

The poor, pitiful bankers just can’t catch a break, can they? In addition to avoiding prosecution for the crimes they’ve committed, now they’re whining to Congress about not getting enough financial support in the form of government bailouts. They believe that taxpayers should fork over even MORE money to the corrupt banking industry.

Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder have some choice words for these greedy bankers.

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Bloodsucking Banksters Want Another Bailout and YOU Will Pay for It (Original Post) GoLeft TV Jun 2015 OP
Do you have a link where banks are asking the WH for more money? leftofcool Jun 2015 #1
News... appalachiablue Jun 2015 #2
What is really galling............ turbinetree Jun 2015 #3
The DOJ is maybe dormant? (to put it kindly). appalachiablue Jun 2015 #4
I know........ turbinetree Jun 2015 #5
As I understand the plan with the TPP, Greenberg would not have to be a "sovereign country" JDPriestly Jun 2015 #8
They don't have to ask. They just have to donate to get a friend of theirs elected. jtuck004 Jun 2015 #6
And just wait for the TPP. The ISDS, international dispute resolution arbitration courts JDPriestly Jun 2015 #7
Wow. I hope that the AJ is awake this time around. midnight Jun 2015 #9

leftofcool

(19,460 posts)
1. Do you have a link where banks are asking the WH for more money?
Tue Jun 16, 2015, 02:21 PM
Jun 2015

This should be late breaking news on every station. I hadn't hear this and I don't see it in the news anywhere.

turbinetree

(24,710 posts)
3. What is really galling............
Tue Jun 16, 2015, 02:44 PM
Jun 2015

is that if Greenberg (step outside the box for a moment) was a sovereign country like what they are trying to pass in the Congress with the TPP "deal" they / he can sue the peoples of the U.S because he can't make a profit------------this just amazing.
And Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder--are just correct------where is the justice department












JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
8. As I understand the plan with the TPP, Greenberg would not have to be a "sovereign country"
Tue Jun 16, 2015, 03:59 PM
Jun 2015

to have standing in the ISDS, TPP arbitration courts. Greenberg could just present his corporation as a plaintiff. He would just say that he was really representing the corporation. That is what is done in shareholder cases I believe. A shareholder can sue on behalf of the true owners of the corporation, the shareholders. I don't know if that is still allowed here. But I think that is the idea. That is how Greenberg could claim standing in the ISDS, TPP court.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
6. They don't have to ask. They just have to donate to get a friend of theirs elected.
Tue Jun 16, 2015, 03:43 PM
Jun 2015

Then it is nothing but wheelbarrows full of cash taken from working people by their administration and given to thieving bank$ter/donors.

Read Stress Test, by Timothy "Killer" Geithner. In their is his and Obama's plan to help the banks get rich on your backs because it is good for you.

Here, the author of the plan has voters laughing AT his face when he tries to spin it otherwise.

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/extended-interviews/z9b8f1/timothy-geithner-extended-interview


JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
7. And just wait for the TPP. The ISDS, international dispute resolution arbitration courts
Tue Jun 16, 2015, 03:54 PM
Jun 2015

that will allow corporations to file claims, but not you and me, and which will issue damages awards to corporations that taxpayers have to pay will be the venue of choice for corporations that take crazy risks and don't want to face the consequences.

That's what those courts are about. I don't seem to be able to get this across. But if you look at the list of cases filed in the NAFTA court, you can see that one of the big frustrations with corporations is that the NAFTA court has rejected numerous cases on procedural grounds I guess. The companies made big investment mistakes and now want to make everyone, ordinary citizens, pay for those mistakes. That's the point, I strongly suspect, of the ISDS portion of the TPP.

midnight

(26,624 posts)
9. Wow. I hope that the AJ is awake this time around.
Tue Jun 16, 2015, 04:30 PM
Jun 2015

Was that Attorney David Boise to the left of Hank Greenberg?

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