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dorksied Donating Member (205 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 07:59 PM
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Obama, wanna ensure reelection? Prosecute Goldman Sachs.
If Obama did this, and dropped the hammer on them, HARD, He would basically guarantee himself a 2nd term.
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truedelphi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 08:13 PM
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1. Obama is good friends with Tim Geithner.
Tim Geithner is part of the inner circle of Goldman Sachs folks.

Octafish has had several lengthy but extremely valuable topics about the inner workings of GS, as far as Treasury and the Fed.

If Obama allowed GS people to be indicted, there would not be any way to exclude Geithner. (I don't think there would be.) When you consider Geithner's role, back in Fall 2008, when he headed the Federal Reserve of New York, and how on that level Geithner sorted out the money so it flowed to AIG and to GS, you realize his culpability.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 08:14 PM
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2. That could happen!
:rofl:
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Nye Bevan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 08:22 PM
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3. The President overriding the normal prosecutorial process?
And ensuring that an unpopular company is indicted, in order to help him politically?

Sounds like Russia to me!
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 08:30 PM
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4. As long as "unpopular" is code for..
... "criminal" you have a point. But I doubt it.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 08:32 PM
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5. Hey if Citizens United says corporations are people, let's start arresting the criminal ones.
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 08:50 PM
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6. he gets his financial orders from goldman sachs lol nt
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ecstatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 08:57 PM
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7. Depends. Would that help or hurt 401ks? nt
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BR_Parkway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-11 06:13 AM
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10. And that was what became the final nail in the coffins - do away with
pensions, have all the small fry put their money into 401K's and suddenly you have an entire voting population aligned with protecting the interests of major corporations over the little guy.

Slickest move Wall St ever made in my opinion. Give the working class all just enough rope (that Wall St can profit from) and they have indeed hung themselves.
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ProgressIn2008 Donating Member (848 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 09:01 PM
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8. Why on earth would he do that? How quaint. nt
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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 09:35 PM
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9. Right. We go after Ghaddafi and Bin Laden, but somehow we can't eve
indict anyone from Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs' executives may not deserve assassinations, but they do deserve trials for fraud.

What is wrong with this picture?
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