Discussion for article #247161
I think politicians on both sides (with some exceptions) underestimate the deep well of resentment that’s out there against Wall Street and others who trampled our economy, but were never served justice.
It took nine years to bring justice to Bin Laden. Wall Street is due.
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What? A presidential candidate from the supposedly leftwing party attacking Wall Street? Huzzah! and may Hillary learn from his example, or she’s gonna get thumped in 2020. Or maybe just 2016.
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Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street.
If the Sanders campaign is going to be such a Johnny One Note he should at least talk about the integration of Wall Street in people lives. Their mortgages, investments, 401ks, IRAs, and pension funds. It’s not some binary issue where everyone but Bernie is just to venal to see it as he claims to see it.
I’m really over him, and he is making me really want to see Hillary finish this thing up.
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He is going to personally direct the DOJ to attack wall street, and then get impeached for directing the DOJ to attack wall street. What a plan!
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Well dangerous in terms of crashing the economy not dangerous in terms of arresting people.
So true. He talks with such duplicity and ambiquity about Wall Street. Demonizes it and the drug companies while coddling the gun industry. So auto industry jobs did not rise to the same level of his hate for wall street so he voted against funding the auto bail out and other industries.
I started as someone who liked Bernie and would gladly vote for him against any Republican to now finding him extremist and dangerous.
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“There is nobody in the United States Congress who has taken on the Koch brothers… more than Bernie Sanders.”
When Sanders said this, I actually leaned forward in my chair thinking he was going to tell just just how he’d “taken on the Koch brothers,” but of course, then he didn’t tell, because he can’t, because he hasn’t.
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Now the challenge is to talk sense into those idealist young people who are voting for him.
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What a godd*mn joke. If he’s supposedly so DANGEROUS TO WALL STREET, how come he hasn’t done anything to WS up till now? What, getting in the WH somehow gives him magical powers? The fact is, WS could care less about him. He would end up doing as much maybe even less than he would have if he were still in the Senate.
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Remember, Obama’s DOJ has been in the position to pursue wall street if they found crimes were committed. That leads me to believe that no laws were broken. Firms were fined heavily and the shareholders paid the price, not the businessmen who made the decisions.
To me the solution lies in making their actions criminal by passing laws making it criminal or rather holding the executives personally responsible rather than fines that costing the shareholders.
Bernie’s ideas are really out in left field, no pun intended.
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They also ran ads in Iowa favoring him in Iowa and attacking Hilkary. He gets by with so much absurdity.
There, I’ve quoted the relevant part of the wiki article for you. We wouldn’t hold Ford responsible for an accident that was the driver’s fault. We would hold them responsible for defects. We wouldn’t hold a car dealer responsible for a drunk driver killing a pedestrian. We would hold them responsible if they let the driver leave the dealership while intoxicated. I’m as anti-gun as anyone that you’ll meet, but Bernie’s position is quite reasonable.
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Hey, did everyone see the clip they showed during the debate of that CCTV (Soviet) tv interview with Bernie back in the day where he praised Ortega and the Castro brothers? Don’t worry if you didn’t catch it, because the Republicans will be running that on a 24-hour loop if Bernie is the Democratic nominee.
His heart and his thoughts are in the right place, but if you wonder why the GOP is praying that Bernie becomes the nominee, this is just one of the reasons. They have been throwing the kitchen sink at Hillary for about two decades now, they haven’t even started to rev up the right-wing slime machine against Bernie yet. But they are ready.
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And that, Cara Bernie, is one thing that bothers me greatly about you. You have no nuance about economic matters. Wall Street is not just one big villain. It’s way more complicated that you pretend that it is and a lot of us are invested and retired and you scare us about this stuff.
Obama has been really good for the economy and that has showed up very well in the stock market, which has done well, and that in turn keeps the economy going and keeps money flowing not just into the pockets of thieves, but the treasuries of towns and cities all over America, to hundreds of thousands of small investors and small business owners.
Sure there are thieves on Wall Street, but there are thieves everywhere.
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Someone didn’t watch the debate tonight, where Bernie wiped the floor with Clinton. I’m pretty sure many topics were discussed.
Let the court decide who i responsible, not give full immunity. Lets say a dealer was selling cars that had built in gun slots so they can be used in drive by’s and that a lot of gangs were buying the cars. But they shouldn’t be held responsible for how people use the cars right?
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He pounds on this issue so incessantly and so nonsensibly. The political revolution is so scary.
I watched it and found his wall street mantra boring, ambiguous and nonsensical. When asked what he specifically would do he said 'I will start a political revolution."
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I am really tired of Bernie and the others who to a man - to a man - are tapping that “deep well of resentment” that they themselves, are responsible for. I don’t like demagogues or appeals to anger and resentment - it’s dangerous. When Drumpf does it, everyone says: oooo Hitleresque. Bernie is doing the same thing - telling people they have been ripped off and he knows why and they should be even madder than they already are and he knows how to fix those bastards who made everything so unequal.
Populists are not cute and cuddly. They are dangerous - no matter which direction they are coming from.
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