2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhy Is Bernie Sanders Invested On Wall Street?
Source: garnett news
Bernie Sanders entire campaign is based on the central themes of honesty, integrity, and trust. Sanders and his surrogates have carefully crafted his image as the only honest politician in the race, as the only person you should trust to elect as President. The argument is that while Hillary Clinton is corrupt, and beholden to big money interests, Sanders is nothe frequently touts that he doesnt even have a Super PAC.
Perhaps Sanders biggest campaign issue is Wall Street. In the November debate, he went on record saying he believes Wall Streets business model is illegitimate, that it is actually fraud. Sanders has campaigned on massive Wall Street reform, and a break-up of the big banks.
With such an anti-Wall Street platform, one would think that Sanders didnt own any stock at all. But not only does Sanders own stock, he actually is invested in several industries that hes heavily criticized.
Sanders has railed against the Big Banks, Big Pharma, and Big Oil but that hasnt stopped him from investing in and profiting from any of those industries. I went to OpenSecrets.org to take a look at the assets Bernie Sanders reported in 2014. You can take a look at some of the funds he is invested in below:
Credit: Center For Responsive PoliticsCredit: Center For Responsive Politics
Read more: http://garnetnews.com/2016/04/04/bernie-sanders-invested-wall-street/
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Same BS source, same BS wording in the OP.
Ned_Devine
(3,146 posts)CalvinballPro
(1,019 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Valic Company Dividend Value Fund
Joob
(1,065 posts)Gee how is this a bad thing? Most Americans invest.
MADem
(135,425 posts)circles!!! Most Americans I know don't invest--they're paying their bills, or trying to...!
The way I see it, HRC separates money from corporations and uses it to bring clean drinking water and direly needed health and welfare to the neediest people on our planet.
And Bernie?
He owns stocks, and he gets dividends.
How long before he throws Jane under the bus?
She did the taxes....but--even though he had to SIGN on the dotted line that he agreed with the figures,he doesn't know a thing about it!!!!
Yeah, that's leadership! Blame the wife!
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Another loyal footsoldier in Princess Weathervane's Ostrich Army off to Ignore...
Depaysement
(1,835 posts). . . for her first Goldman Sachs speech She took a deep breath and said good evening to the audience.
At that moment she had made more money off big companies than Bernie has made in his entire life.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Depaysement
(1,835 posts)You can view his federal disclosure forms. He has filled them out for every year he's been in Congress. Yawn.
MADem
(135,425 posts)What kind of person signs shit without reading it first?
He's blaming his WIFE for HIS taxes~!
That's pretty shady, if you ask me.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)"Sanders owns stock" or something.
ThePhilosopher04
(1,732 posts)the problem for Hillary is Wall Street is invested in her. Huge difference.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)to live, work, and invest within the framework of a capitalist economy. Only capitalism has the ability to deliver the standard of living and social justice we want. But, full-time vigilance is required to remove the criminals that rob the system. Regardless of your feelings about Social Democracy, it is to your financial advantage to have an orderly, fair, and crime-free stock market. That's what we want. I'm a Bernie supporter and I own stocks traded on Wall Street. I do my research and do my best to avoid the companies operated by criminals. That's a fair standard to hold Bernie to. Is he invested or trading in companies operated by criminals (the folks that delivered the Bush crash)? If the answer is "no", then Bernie is just like most of us average Joes and Janes, just trying to make an honest buck off of investments in capitalistic companies. Nothing wrong with that.