Wall Street 1,100,000,000,000, the American People 0

Posted: Sunday, December 14, 2014, 7:43 PM

"And now we're watching as Congress passes yet another provision that was written by lobbyists for the biggest recipient of bailout money in the history of this country. And its attached to a bill that needs to pass or else we entire federal government will grind to a halt. Think about that kind of power. If a financial institution has become so big and so powerful that it can hold the entire country hostage. That alone is reason enough to break them up. Enough is enough."

-- U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D.-Mass.) speech on U.S. Senate floor, Dec. 12, 2014.

Do you remember voting for Jamie Dimon of J.P. Morgan Chase, and the Citigroup Party, back in the November election? Me neither. Remember, this was the election about nothing --- the GOP platform was "You don't like Obama and neither do we," while the Democrats thoughtfully countered with, "Derp!" This was pretty obvious at the time, but both parties were clearly terrified that a real discussion of the issues might have screwed up their real mission.

Which is doing anything that Citigroup, Jamie Dimon, and the Wall Street bigwigs who paid for their campaigns ask them to do.

~Snip~

The most offensive thing is the cynical way that Big Money and its bought-and-paid-for-Congress abused notions of "bipartisanship" and "compromise" -- the things that the average, fairly disengaged voter are said to desire -- to sneak through a measure that aids The One Percent at the expense of the 99 Percent. That's the only kind of "bipartisanship" that Democrats and Republicans inside the Beltway are truly down with.


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