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Ann Coulter: OBAMA'S OWNED -- YOU CAN BANK ON IT (Bought and Paid for)
AnnCoulter.Com ^ | Feb 10, 2010 | Ann Coulter
OBAMA'S OWNED -- YOU CAN BANK ON IT
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:00:00 AM
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The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are bristling with the news that Republicans have decided now is the time to suck up to Wall Street. As the saying goes, there is no truer friend than a Wall Street arbitrageur -- they are the salt-of-the-earth, the most loyal men who ever drew a breath!
What are Republicans thinking? While not every money-manipulator on Wall Street deserves to be treated like a heroin dealer, lots do. Could the Republicans be a little more discriminating in picking up the Democrats' old friends?
The Democrats are acting as if they want to punish everyone in the financial services industry, including the innocent, while the Republicans seem to want to protect everyone on Wall Street, including the guilty.
How about just punishing the guilty? The Democrats can't do that because the list of Wall Street's biggest offenders may turn out to be eerily similar to the list of Obama's biggest campaign contributors.
Employees from Goldman Sachs gave more to the Obama campaign than any other organization except the University of California -- with Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase quickly following in sixth and seventh place.
Whatever Obama has in mind for punishing the financial industry, I promise you, he won't punish his friends. After JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon took a $17 million bonus this week, and Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein got a $9 million bonus, Obama said he didn't begrudge them their bonuses, saying, "I know both those guys."
Obama seems to be hoping that his vague bluster about "obscene profits" will lure Republicans into embracing Wall Street welfare recipients -- thereby losing Americans forever.
Never bet against Republicans being outwitted.
Risk-taking and speculation are good. But the Democrats' crony capitalism is the worst of both worlds: risk-taking without any real risk for the risk-takers. It's like gambling with your rich daddy's money, except we're the rich daddy.
Obama, like the rest of his party, is an ideologue who doesn't understand or particularly like the free market. He fundamentally believes in the efficacy of the welfare state, whether the beneficiary is a layabout single mother or a rich Wall Street banker.
As Peter Schweizer describes in his magnificent book "Architects of Ruin," the Democrats have been bailing out investment houses from their bad bets since the Clinton administration. The bankers got all the profits when their risky bonds were paying -- and then gave massive donations to their Democratic benefactors. But once the bets went bad, it was the taxpayers' problem.
Heavily leveraged securities packages put together by Goldman Sachs and others were the HIV virus that killed the American economy. And the reason investment firms piled leverage on leverage on leverage was that they knew the government would bail them out if their house of cards collapsed.
On one hand, Goldman put together toxic securities packages for their clients, but on the other hand, Goldman knew the mortgage securities being sold on the market were crap, so they also took out lots of insurance with AIG on crappy products being traded on the market.
It would be as if, anticipating a major earthquake, Goldman bought massive insurance policies on every house on the San Andreas fault line.
There's nothing wrong with taking risks and making bets, provided that if you bet wrong or if you bankrupt your betting partner with wild gambles: You lose.
Read more at AnnCoulter.Com
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Suckers!
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3333666,
Do you think if more people had saved their money and actually invested it in the Stock Market, there wouldn`t be such rage towards Wall Street?
I am inclined to think so.
“The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest”- Albert Einstein
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Please keep your paste jobs, when you try to write a sentence on your own, its barely readable.
I have no idea what you are asking.
You really are having a tough time with that statement/question? ???
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Were you making a statement? Asking a question?
Re-read what you wrote.
3333666,
Do you think if more people had saved their money and actually invested it in the Stock Market, there wouldn`t be such rage towards Wall Street?
I am inclined to think so.
“The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest”- Albert Einstein
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First Sentence is a question to you.
Second Sentence is my conclusion.
Third Sentence is a quote by Albert Einstein.
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I think the anger needs to be split 50/50 between wall street and the govt/Federal Reserve.
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Alex Jones said the same thing in his film The Obama Deception. 333, you should check out that movie--even has clips with Gerald Celeste, too.
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Tell us something we don't know 333.
What i find hilarious is the repubs begging wall street to let them in too hahaha
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KC - stop being such a sucker.
Did you read Krugmans article I posted on this? Your messiah is now defending the bank bonuses.
This has nothing to do with the GOP.
Not my messiah buddy just my president. Yours too :D
And as i've said i don't agree with him regarding bonuses for CEO's he needs to stay a hard line. i just find it funny how you would care. You don't believe in govt regulation or meddling in other businesses, Obama is taking that stance. Don't you agree with it?
I'm also pointing out the GOP is no different, just on the outside at this stage but hey they're begging to be in.