2016 Postmortem

ucrdem

(15,512 posts) Fri Feb 12, 2016, 10:44 PM Feb 2016

Guess what? Bernie Sanders actually has backers...on Wall Street

Meredith Burak is a third-generation Wall Street executive. At 32, she has worked in global wealth management for Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. She thinks Wall Street is one of the few places in the country where people can truly realize the American Dream. And she's supporting Bernie Sanders for president of the United States.

The same Bernie Sanders who said this about Burak's industry: "The reality is that for the past 40 years, Wall Street and the billionaire class has rigged the rules to redistribute wealth and income to the wealthiest and most powerful people of this country."

Burak doesn't take it personally. "Wall Street has been very good to my family," she said. "It has enabled myself and my cousins and people around me to go to college."

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/11/guess-what-bernie-sanders-actually-has-backerson-wall-street.html

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She doesn't seem very worried that Bernie is going to end the gravy train any time soon.

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Guess what? Bernie Sanders actually has backers...on Wall Street (Original Post) ucrdem Feb 2016 OP

He has a Wall Street banker friend also. Thinkingabout Feb 2016 #1

oooooh! how sinister! virtualobserver Feb 2016 #5

Right, Billionaires for Bernie SuperPAC. ucrdem Feb 2016 #7

Irrational hit piece scscholar Feb 2016 #2

Not really. It's pretty tame. ucrdem Feb 2016 #9

"But at the same time, Burak said, Wall Street needs tougher regulation and rules. " AZ Progressive Feb 2016 #3

Ah. Bernie wants to put Madoff in jail. Now it all makes sense! ucrdem Feb 2016 #4

Madoff screwed rich people AZ Progressive Feb 2016 #6

It's virtually impossible for any presidential candidate to not have any supporters on Wall Street KingFlorez Feb 2016 #8

In other words.... Bohemianwriter Feb 2016 #10

Ooh the token minority argument! Fearless Feb 2016 #11

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)

1. He has a Wall Street banker friend also.

Reply to ucrdem (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 10:54 PM

Feb 2016

More connection with corporations than he has revealed, wonder why.

virtualobserver

(8,760 posts)

5. oooooh! how sinister!

Reply to Thinkingabout (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 11:36 PM

Feb 2016

ucrdem

(15,512 posts)

7. Right, Billionaires for Bernie SuperPAC.

Reply to Thinkingabout (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 11:44 PM

Feb 2016

LOL. And then there are the RW superpacs like Rove's AmericanCrossroads.org that spend millions to focus-group new anit-Clinton memes and spread them to all takers. Whenever I hear Bernie brag about how he gets no help from SuperPacs I have to laugh.

scscholar

(2,902 posts)

2. Irrational hit piece

Reply to ucrdem (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 11:01 PM

Feb 2016

full of angry ranting

ucrdem

(15,512 posts)

9. Not really. It's pretty tame.

Reply to scscholar (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 11:49 PM

Feb 2016

But the point is that so are Bernie's proposals, when you get down to it. The prosecutable criminals are already in jail, like Madoff, and I hope no actually thinks that Bernie is going to waste his first hundred days trying to prosecute U.S. citizens for the crime of being wealthy.

AZ Progressive

(3,411 posts)

3. "But at the same time, Burak said, Wall Street needs tougher regulation and rules. "

Reply to ucrdem (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 11:06 PM

Feb 2016

"People on Wall Street want the game to be fair," she said. "It is when people cheat that things get messed up for everyone. And to the extent that we can have rules and more enforcement to get people like [Ponzi schemer] Bernie Madoff out of the financial system, the better it is for the economy."