2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumYou can invest in Wall Street and at the same time
want it regulated properly to not sink the economy and work for all of us. eom to the dishonesty of those who are willing to screw others for a dollar. I'm damn f*cking tired of the crap.
Joob
(1,065 posts)mmonk
(52,589 posts)I'm for Bernie's plans.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)think
(11,641 posts)robbedvoter
(28,290 posts)How did I do?
think
(11,641 posts)And yes. He wants to break up the too big to fail banks that were a major cause of the last economic crisis. Many Democrats like Elizabeth Warren also want to bring back Glass Steagall to protect the American people from banks that are too big too fail.
Banks that are even bigger now than when they were too big to fail then. Banks that are still committing crimes and putting America's economy at risk with their greed and recklessness....
Armstead
(47,803 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Armstead
(47,803 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)That's politics.
Scripting Rosario Dawson to jab at Clinton's FBI interview during her Bronx speech was not exactly the stuff of Camelot.
CalvinballPro
(1,019 posts)I'll take Barney Frank's word over Bernie Sanders' when it comes to Wall Street regulation. Frank got a bill passed, while Bernie was MIA.
mmonk
(52,589 posts)I have enough intelligence to be against getting screwed again. But you're smarter, right? Because of Mr Countrywide.
CalvinballPro
(1,019 posts)your bet and lost, apparently. Now you want to blame others because you placed your bet?
Take some god-damned responsibility for your own actions for once.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)whatthehey
(3,660 posts)Nobody who wasn't mobbed up to the hilt or an MIT genius running a scam saw an initial gambling investment that looked like this over the last few decades. But hey avoid that kind of gain if you want. I think your local credit union might just be able to pay 1.5% on a CD...
CalvinballPro
(1,019 posts)one responsible for the outcome, for good or bad. The previous person to whom I was replying want to blame everyone else but him- or herself for their experience.
robbedvoter
(28,290 posts)But when you call it Wall Street Satan, incessantly, it looks like making a deal with the devil. Also, when you assume corruption in others for similarly tenuous connections (getting paid for a speech), then, don't be shocked it iy gets turned around.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)And see if they feel if wallstreet should be extremely regulated.
I bet many not only lost their money, a few years off their lives from stress.
onecaliberal
(32,902 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)The question is - is it willful ignorance or just ignorance?
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)been made by Bernie that people should not make investments.
It has always been about their top dogs buying influence for less
regulation which has been documented going back decades.
If Clinton's camp is the one driving this bullshit he can address
it at the next debate.
Do they realize that anyone who pushed hard for reform can be accused
of the same thing..using their logic?
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)Pensions are gone and now the financial industry is gunning for Social Security.