Stand Up for Strong Wall Street Reform!

[flpoljunkie]

Make Wall Street Reform Strong
We must not let Wall Street Weaken Financial Reform in Conference Committee

In order to deregulate the financial industry, Wall Street spent $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions over a ten-year period.

They got what they wanted. As a result of deregulation big banks merged and grew incredibly large; they produced worthless and esoteric financial instruments; they brought themselves to near-bankruptcy and had to be bailed out by middle-class taxpayers. As a result of their greed, they created the worst recession since the Great Depression.

Now, after the House and Senate have passed financial reform bills, Wall Street is flooding Capitol Hill with lobbyists and is spending millions to try to weaken or remove some of the major provisions passed in the House and Senate bills as they come to the conference committee. While these bills are nowhere near as strong as they should be, they are an important start in reining in Wall Street greed and preventing another financial meltdown.

That's why Senators Sherrod Brown and Bernie Sanders are organizing a coalition of Ohioans, Vermonters, and Americans who, regardless of political ideology, refuse to let Wall Street money dominate the political process. Together, we the people - not the Wall Street fat cats - will send a clear message to make financial reform as strong as possible.


Sign the petition: http://www.makereformstrong.com/

[flpoljunkie]

1. Bernie Sanders great on Dylan Ratigan on financial reform! FinReg also back in session soon.

http://www.cspan.org/Watch/Media/2010/06/16/HP/R/34264/Conferees+Continue+to+Negotiate+Details+on+Financial+Reform+Bill.aspx

Sanders says the American people are going to have to mobilize to solve our problems. He's right.

[Cha]

2. KR