Forum Post: 64 U.S. Senators & 171 Sitting Representatives who repealed Glass-Steagall
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 10, 2011, 8:21 a.m. EST by aahpat
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These 235 sitting members of Congress voted in 1999 to repeal Glass-Steagall thus creating "too big to fail banks".
The Congress that Crashed America http://home.ptd.net/~aahpat/aandc/congcrash.html
Protesting at their offices across the nation would send a powerful message to Wall Street that we know who their minions in congress are and we will vote them out of office. Tell Wall Street that We the People will no longer reward these criminal conspirators in Congress with our vote.
H.R.2451 Latest Title: Glass-Steagall Restoration Act of 2011
Find it here: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.php
Write to your members in Congress and demand that they co-sponsor this bill. NOW!
This should be our MASTER LIST of who not to vote for! Great Post. thanks.
Better still, lets just not vote Democrat, since Bill Clinton was the single person who signed this monstrosity into law.
Aipac won on that, again and again and again....till americans wake up
H.R.2451 Latest Title: Glass-Steagall Restoration Act of 2011
Find it here: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.php
Write to your members in Congress and demand that they co-sponsor this bill. NOW!
52 house members - 48D + 4R have signed on to this -
but without the majority of R in congress, this cannot pass.
Why not pick a vital issue the 76% of R Americans support ?
We have a large number of great, well thought out, COMPLICATED ideas that will require a huge amount of "selling" and “explanation" and will garner GREAT OPPOSITION.
We need to be realistic & pick an issue that is simple – and that is popular -
that 83% of Americans already agree on -
that 56% of TP already agree on -
that will bring together the people in OWS with the people outside of OWS.
Everybody wins!
Our only goal should be to pass a constitutional amendment to counter Supreme Court decisions Citizens United (2010) & Buckley v. Valeo (1976), that enable unlimited amounts of anonymous money to flood into our political system.
“Corporations and organizations are not a persons & have no personhood rights”
and
“money is not free speech”.
We don’t have to explain or persuade people to accept our position – we have to persuade them to ACT based on their own position. Pursuing this goal will prove to the world that we are a serious realistic Movement, with serious realistic goals. Achieving this goal will make virtually every other goal – jobs, taxes, infrastructure, Medicare – much easier to achieve –
by disarming our greatest enemy – GREED.
THE SUCCESS STORY OF THE AMENDING PROCESS The Prohibition movement started as a disjointed effort by conservative teetotalers who thought the consumption of alcohol was immoral. They ransacked saloons and garnered press coverage here and there for a few years. Then they began to gain support from the liberals because many considered alcohol partially responsible for spousal and child abuse, among other social ills. This odd alliance, after many years of failing to influence change consistently across jurisdictions, decided to concentrate on one issue nationally—a constitutional amendment. They pressured all politicians on every level to sign a pledge to support the amendment. Any who did not, they defeated easily at the ballot box since they controlled a huge number of liberal, and conservative and independent swing votes in every election. By being a single-issue constituency attacking from all sides of the political spectrum, they very quickly amassed enough votes (2/3) to pass the amendment in Congress. And, within just 17 months, they were successful in getting ¾ of the state legislatures to ratify the constitutional amendment into law. (Others were ratified even faster: Eight —took less than a year. The 26th, granting 18-year-olds the right to vote, took 99 days.)
If they could tie the left and right into a success -
If Ohio won. If Arizona won. If Maine won. If Mississippi won - WHY CAN'T WE??????????
I feel that we should stay with this simple text to overturn CU:
”corporations are not people” and “money is not free speech”
for four simple reasons and one – not so simple:
1
83% of Americans have already opposed CU in the ABC/Washington post poll and the above
IS THEIR POSITION ALREADY.
2
We don’t have to work to convince people on the validity of our position.
3
Simple is almost always better.
4
This simple Amendment is REQUIRED to overturn CU.
And all other electoral reform can be passed through the normal legislative process.
5
OWS and these pages are chock full of ( mostly ) excellent ideas to improve our country.
All of them have strong advocates – and some have strong opposition.
None of them has been “pre-approved” by 83% of Americans !
Pursuing this goal – without additional specifics is exactly what Americans want.
What do we want? Look at that almost endless list of demands – goals - aims.
Tax the rich. End the Fed. Jobs for all, Medicare for all. So easy to state! Can you imagine how hard it would be to formulate a “sales pitch” for any of these to convince your Republican friends to vote for any of them?
83% of Americans have ALREADY “voted” against CU. And 76% of the Rs did too.
All we have to do ask Americans is to pressure their representatives – by letters - emails – petitions.
Wanna take your family on vacation?
Convince the 7 year old and the 10 year old to go to Mt Rushmore.
Then try to convince them to go to Disneyland.
Prioritizing this goal will introduce us to the world – not as a bunch of hippie radical anarchist socialist commie rabblerousers – but as a responsible, mature movement that is fighting for what America wants.
I feel that using the tactics of the NRA, the AARP an the TP – who all represent a minority – who have successfully used their voting power to achieve their minority goals - plus the Prohibition Amendment tactics – bringing all sides together - is a straight path for us to success that cannot fail to enable us to create and complete one MAJORITY task.
I've been waiting 40 yrs. for the 99% to even become a little self aware. It was always self evident to me but I guess you have to be out of work to figure it out and to realize that they aren't going to forgive your debt which they mercilessly marketed. Of course, you have to squander epic amounts of money and spill oceans of blood to be forgiven to the point of avoiding jail. I agree about CU and the rationale for that strategy. It cuts off the dependence on money so that politicians have to depend on voters. Of course, I include the bloated superstructure of congressional aids, party hacks and media types who depend on the politics racket the way that gamblers depend on dog fight promoters. In 1970 we were one half of one percent of the student body when we shut down OSU. It soon after felt like crap, even though we ended in loco parentis, toppled the chancellor of schools, helped establish a black media presence and Oh Yeah, put the VN War front and center. Even though Nixon put ending the war in his campaign platform, it took another eight years. I have a lot of reasons to be enthusiastic about OWS, not the least of which is the quality of the youth and the progressive American traditions it embodies. I also remember the forty years and wonder why Reagan and greed, Clinton and triangulation, Bush and bullying and now Obama and the era of the establishment consigliore. Bt the way, I am Ben's dad also. He is totally apolitical and an academic but he knows right from wrong and has a good heart. That is the one thing that is most damning about the 1%, they have no heart.
Thanq - other ben's dad - mine is apolitical and in Australia for a few weeks - I hope to see you at our meeting - of WE ARE THE 83% - at 60 Wall St Nov 12 6PM
I so much want to be there physically. Can't walk anymore. The kids (why do I call them kids?) blow me away. Teachers, public health workers, humanists, avoid the bullshit players.
sorry you wont be there - you will hear from me
Clean House,Senate,The Supreme Court, they are full of Rats, Abolish, The Federal Reserve,who in concert with Congress,printed 20 Trillion dollars,backed by no goods and services,Fake money,Fake Debt..Bail out the richest corporations,give bonuses to the very ones who bankrupted the world economy..Stick U.S. taxpayers with the bill at 5% interest..High Treason is the Charge..witholding evidence,obstruction,bribery,extortion maximum..
YES. Separate the Speculative Investment Banking from Regular Banking.
We need a congresswo/men to be a sponsor of each Demand. I have more Fighting Points:
http://fuzzythinker.WebStarts.com/ows-_fighting_points.html
Here are other places to Post your Issues:
http://www.occupyr.com/Demands/
...and... http://www.petitiononline.com/99declar/petition.html
H.R.2451 Latest Title: Glass-Steagall Restoration Act of 2011
Find it here: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.php
Write to your members in Congress and demand that they co-sponsor this bill. NOW!
This is great. Thanks. How do we broadcast this and other links to the 99%?
Cut and paste. Lots and lots of cut and paste.
Here also is a list of all of the currently sitting members of Congress who, in 1999, voted to repeal Glass-Steagall. http://home.ptd.net/~aahpat/aandc/congcrash.html
These people need to be voted out of office as soon as possible.
One more thing... bring back the bankruptcy protection that was un-done by the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005. Lets not be fooled by the title. This act protected the banks by making bankruptcy more difficult for the consumer. Can you find the list of incumbents that voted for that?
I have spent dozens of hours compiling and updating this list and making the web page to present it from the official congressional resources. The resources are all public and if you care enough please feel free to go and do it for the bankruptcy law.
The congressional record. Thomas on the net will give you access o every law and vote going back twenty years. Its all there have at it.
I think the politicians and lobbyists have to be the charged together on a lawsuit as mobsters with crimes against the American citizens. Those lobbyists must be very adept at the art of persuasion, which is the mainstay of their job.
To hell with the left, to hell with the right, and there's no dam middle ground worth siding with. The corrupt government has to GO. This is new ground. We have to evict them.
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Demonstrating at his office will do nothing. Campaign for a candidate to win his seat in 2012. Another dumb OWS move.
Raising the age to collect social security
read more - http://overthecoals.blogspot.com/
Diane Swonk claims to be an economist who just said, "I work hard and I don't mind having to work 2 more years to collect social security." That was in response to a caller on C-span who said she was 48 and she opposes raising the age.
While I'm sitting here at age 69 writing this blog post I don't claim that this is hard work sitting on my ass. If Diane Swonk drove an 18 wheeler and had to pull the pin to release the trailer every day or did some meaningful work making products, cooking food, repairing things, or building things Diane would grasp that increasing the age to remedy social security will be impossible for many workers.
Diane Swonk is another clueless economist who never saw the mortgage bubble and doesn't know what she's talking about on any subject. When she claims to being a hard worker, even if that was true, she's never accomplished anything. The economists designed the slave trade called "globalization" that has destroyed America for 50,000,000 workers who earned money by working. Its the economists who refuse to admit the mistake of advising the government to use policies that have destroyed the economy.
Any reader who wants to read my entire composition posted just under this post will receive a copy if they send their email address.
Steve you have admitted that you are a convicted felon who spent 9 years in prison for extortion. Why are you looking for your next prey here?
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mike - are you your wife?
Nah. Just making a point. If you want to fire someone for fucking up our economy, try voting out of office the people who put Obama care in place.
You right-wingers make yourselves look like complete idiots with assertions like that.
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Your partisan imposed myopia is not contagious. I will not succumb to it as you have just because you rant and rave.
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Why can't you right-wingers ever actually read what is written rather than your incessantly reading what you want to read into what is written? I have no reason to respond to your intentional mis-characterization of what I wrote.