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(12,778 posts)houston16revival
(953 posts)A speech and a rant aren't going to fix anything
nor send the lobbyists packing
nor bring jobs and money back home
Lending at 2% to business? Business is already flush with cash
at low rates. Is it helping?
Ending money in politics is not going to allow us to disengage from the
economic and trade systems. We still need and buy a lot from China.
Repatriate stolen money? How? Fine the perpetrators? Make an example
of a few?
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)and raise holy hell just like Ratigan did. It will be necessary for the president to make a spectacle of himself.
We might need to use the military to stop the extraction. Once the American people actually understand the problem no politician would dare say, "We don't need a new Glass Steagal." or "You can't increase taxes on the job creators!"
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)I saw this when it went done and knew he was done then, but I was blown completely away!!! It was his "I'm mad and I am not going to take it anymore" moment!!!
I wish more show hosts had the guts to do this. Alas, to many like Tweety, who have no soul to sell to begin with!
Nictuku
(3,614 posts)Nothing changes.
Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)money out of politics and is about a revolution to throw the bought Congress out and that one candidate is Bernie Sanders.
BTW, Ratigan, I get that that Tea Party thing didn't exactly work out for you the way you thought it would.
Uncle Joe
(58,364 posts)the 2016 race started.
Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)And if he was didn't leave MSBS then, eventually they would have canned him with ED and the others.
dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)I can see being involved in a Sanders administration.
Dylan is no leftist, but he's a great ally in the fight to return government back to serving the people.
Uncle Joe
(58,364 posts)dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)He could head something like the Securities and Exchange Commission, maybe, or work in the Justice Department to expose and prosecute financial fraud. Or he could be an angry White House greeter, but I had Lewis Black in mind for that job.