Forum Post: Proposal: OWS reply to purported Democratic support
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 11, 2011, 12:02 p.m. EST by KenzoJoe
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In recent days, Democrat politicians have began to express their support for OWS, most notably House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. Most of these politicians have accepted large contributions from the financial industry in the past. I would like to propose the following:
That any elected official that expresses support for OWS should be asked the following question:
Are you willing to stop accepting campaign contributions from such financial institutions as Wall Street Investment firms, hedge funds, and any financial institution that accepted TARP bailout money in 2008? If their answer is not an unequivocal yes, than they should be told that their support is nothing but empty rhetoric and that it is not wanted or needed.
As the highest profile Democrat to publicly support OWS, Nancy Pelosi should be the first elected official to be asked this question.
I agree 100% these people are a bunch of corrupt phonies. Think very very carefully about who you will vote in next year. Not that either side is honest. Dont go by the party, go by what comes out of their mouth, and what they have done. Even though thats not fool proof either.
You have already been hijacked! The Dems own you! You fucked it all up because your group is mostly radical left wing! The Dems are really the ones you should be targeting. They have taken ownership of this movement and it's too late to stop it unless you attack them directly!
Don't let any political party hijack this movement.
ology.com : Noah Rothman –
Quotes from David Plouffe: “If you’re concerned about Wall Street and our financial system, the president is standing on the side of consumers and the middle class,” said Plouffe.
Plouffe took the same message to CBS’ “The Early Show,” saying without irony that an Obama second term would be nothing like the first. “Taxpayers won’t be on the hook for a bailout anymore; we’ll be more transparent,” claimed Plouffe. “Consumers will be protected on hidden fees and mortgages and credit cards.”
Only the ignorant and complacent among the American people would ever believe that President Obama is going to Do a 180 degree turn and support the 99% if he gets reelected.
I'll admit, I voted for Obama. I think a lot of people did Because he preached real change in a time of the greatest uncertainty since the great depression and people were and still are Scared.
I have one thing to say to Obama. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
He will NOT fool us AGAIN!
I also will not be fooled by Cain or Romney either.
I am with you on this.
Both Dems and Repubs don't have the interests of the people in mind. Why bother responding? the Dems are trying to ride our movement into the 2012 elections. Screw them!
Hear, hear!
Answering the question is not enough for me. The Democrats have broken promise after promise. I will only believe what they do.
As a lifelong Democrat I say this, promises that we have not been able to fulfill have been due to the obstructionism of the Republican party. I absolutely agree that candidates should have to answer that question, and no true Democrat should answer anything but YES!
You have got to be kidding me. So Obama surrounded himself with bankers because of the the Republican party?
Obama inherited the problem. He even said when he was elected that it would get worse before it got better. He has to work with people; I don't agree with several things he's done, but some things (like the Jobs bill) can be pushed through if we send a clear message to congress that we are fed up with them.
Great Obama talking points. You didn't answer my question.
In short, that was part of it; I'll freely admit that part of it was his fault, i.e. choosing to make healthcare his big issue instead of cleaning up Wall Street. As to his choice of advisors, let me say this: for the past thirty years the strongly predominant economic school of thought in the country was the laissez-faire philosophy of Milton Friedman. Most of the economists age 45 and under grew up under that system, and a lot of the ones who did't would have been very easy to shoot down in confirmation.
The economic philosophy that both parties have embraced for the last 70+ years is Keynesian economics. It is the school of thought that allowed the bailouts under both Bush and Obama, the philosophy that encouraged the Obama stimulus that failed miserably, and the economics school utilized by the Federal Reserve to impose an inflationary monetary policy that has debased the national currency and levied a hidden tax on the poor and middle class. The unholy Washington / Federal Reserve alliance has in no way implemented a free-market approach to the economy and has resulted in trillions of dollars of wealth either lost by or confiscated from average Americans.
congress sold the US citizens health care to private issuance companies
I wouldn't say surrounding, but the bankers still have control of too much. The reality is that people in charge who do not have an overwhelming advantage must deal with their advisaries.
His Chief of Staff, William Daley, is a former JP Morgan Exec. Larry Summers, who led his economic counsel, was a former US Treasury Secretary and was one of the leading proponents of repealing Glass-Steagall. One of his main confidants is the CEO of General Electric, Jeffrey Immelt. His dramatic expansion of debt and endorsement of Ben Bernanke's latest round of currency printing have directly profited the big banks.
Obama is a Wall Street puppet. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Two people does not constitue surrounding. I don't agree with everything they are doing. We should have elected Hillary, but we didn't nominate her.
Come to think of it, you're right. Wall Street and the Republicans have been jerking around the President and the American people for some time now.
Maybe Obama is seeking a way to gain control of some of the strings.
You're insane. Here's more proof.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/obama-jobs-council-stacked-with-democratic-donors/
The group of private-sector business leaders advising President Obama on how to create jobs and grow the economy is full of deep-pocket Democratic donors and high-profile financiers of Obama’s re-election campaign, a review of Federal Election Commission data shows.
At least 10 members of the Obama-appointed Council on Jobs and Competitiveness gave the legal maximum contribution — $4,600 — to help get Obama elected in 2008, and they continue to write checks for the president in 2012. Several also serve as Obama campaign bundlers, top fundraisers who collect millions of dollars from their networks of well-to-do colleagues and friends to aid his re-election bid.
The bundlers — Mark Gallogy, co-founder of investment firm Centerbridge Partners, Penny Prtizker, president and CEO of Pritzker Realty Group, and Robert Wolf, chairman of UBS Americas — have raised as much as $2.7 million for Obama in 2008 and 2012 combined, according to estimates provided by the Obama campaign.
Pritzker served as the Obama presidential campaign’s national finance chairwoman in 2008 and co-chair of the Obama inaugural committee in 2009. Wolf is an occasional Obama golf partner and most recently played golf with the president during his vacation on Martha’s Vineyard.
Other members of the council who have personally padded Obama’s election coffers include Xerox Corporation CEO Ursula Burns, TIAA-CREF CEO Roger Ferguson, MIT/Harvard Broad Institute director Eric Lander, Citigroup chairman Richard Parsons, Hooven-Dayton Corp. CEO Christopher Che, UC Berkeley professor Laura D’Andrea Tyson, attorney and Amazon.com/Google board member John Doerr, and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.