AMERICAN
BANKS and the CATASTROPHIC DEATH OF AMERICA
The
2008 crash and subsequent developments have revealed certain fundamental
realities about American society. All of the official institutions, including
the presidency, the courts, Congress and the financial regulators, have worked
single-mindedly to shield the banks and the financial elite and enable them to
grow even richer.
THE OBAMA ASSAULT
ON OUR PENSIONS...means more money for CEO donors!
BIGGER PROFITS FOR
HIS WALL STREET DONORS IF PENSIONS ARE SLASHED
“Feinberg, who as the
Obama administration’s “pay tsar” rubber- stamped
multimillion-dollar executive bonuses to Wall Street banks bailed out with taxpayer funds,
will now be given power to slash workers’ benefits at his discretion.”
The US presidency for sale
20 July 2015
The 2016 US presidential election will be the most expensive in history, costing an estimated $10 billion, when all spending by candidates, the Democratic and Republican parties, super PACs and other corporate lobbies and trade unions is tabulated.The vast sums being raised and spent by the Democratic and
Republican candidates make a mockery of the claims that the
United States is a democracy in which the people rule. It is big
money that rules, dominating the entire process of selecting the
candidates of the only two officially recognized parties and
effectively determining the outcome of the vote on November 8,
2016.
Of the $390 million raised so far, $300 million has gone to the 15 announced candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, while $90 million has gone to four Democrats—$71.5 million of that to the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. The disparity is misleading: once the primary contest is over, and a Republican is selected to face Clinton, there will be billions spent on each side in the general election campaign.
The role of big money in the presidential campaign has become so obvious that even the corporate-controlled media can’t cover it up any longer. The Washington Post, for example, published a report July 16 whose headline left little to the imagination: “2016 fundraising shows power tilting to groups backed by wealthy elite.” The article noted that “independent” expenditures by so-called super PACs—political action committees loosely linked to the candidates—would for the first time exceed the spending by the candidates and their official campaign committees.
On the Republican side, the pace has been set by Jeb Bush, brother
of former president George W. Bush and son of former president
George H.W. Bush. His campaign and two associated super PACs
raised $119 million during the second quarter of 2015, the largest
amount ever raised for a presidential candidate so early in the
campaign.
Nearly all this money came from well-heeled donors: Bush himself gave more money to his own campaign ($399,720) than all of his small donors combined ($368,023). Besides the billionaires and multi-millionaires who gave up to $1 million apiece to the super PAC (the limit set by the Bush campaign), Bush raked in cash from lobbyists representing finance, oil, wholesale, real estate and a raft of other industries.
Super PACs are the offspring of the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens
United decision and subsequent court actions, which effectively
removed any limit on what billionaires and corporations can give to
political action committees (donations to candidates themselves are
still limited to $2,700).
Super PACs first played a significant role in 2012, mainly in the Republican primary campaign, where billionaires Sheldon Adelson and Foster Friess kept Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum in the field against Mitt Romney, himself a hedge fund boss and near-billionaire.
What is happening in 2016 is a further quantitative leap. Super PACs account for $230 million in funding for Republican candidates, compared to $65 million raised by the candidates themselves.
Every significant Republican candidate has a billionaire (or in the case of Donald Trump, is a billionaire), except Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, whose occasional objections to US military adventures overseas have cut him off from such funding, causing his campaign prospects to fade rapidly.
Super PAC funding has made Jeb Bush the frontrunner, while also boosting Senator Ted Cruz ($53 million) and Senator Marco Rubio ($44 million) to the status of serious contenders. Another top Republican hopeful, Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, raked in $20 million for his super PAC before declaring his candidacy July 13.
Super PACs will sustain at least another half dozen Republican candidates. Three billionaires are funding former Texas Governor Rick Perry, with $16 million of the $17 million he has raised. Ohio Governor John Kasich, who is to announce next week, has $11.5 million, and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie $10 million. Even Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, a latecomer to the campaign, is backed by $9 million in super PAC money. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina also have enough big-money donors to run campaigns.
On the Democratic side, the same essential reality prevails, albeit masked by the pretense that the Democratic Party is the party of working people, and the populist rhetoric of some of the Democratic challengers to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
Clinton’s fundraising has the same profile as the Republican candidates, with the difference that, not expecting a serious primary contest, Clinton’s strategists asked big money donors to hold their fire until the general election campaign. Most Democratic billionaires, like Warren Buffett, currency speculator George Soros, and investment banker Tom Steyer, are waiting until next year.
But Clinton has already raked in smaller amounts—essentially down payments—from media billionaires Haim Saban and Fred Eychaner, hedge fund operator Marc Lasny, J.B. Pritzer of the Hyatt family fortune, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, and numerous other Hollywood, Silicon Valley and Wall Street moguls.
Last week Clinton posted on her campaign web site the names of 122 “bundlers” who raised at least $100,000 for her campaign in the second quarter. These included corporate lobbyists for Dow Chemical, Microsoft, Exxon, PepsiCo, Verizon and MasterCard, among many, many others. The identity of one “bundler” is telling: Steven Rattner, the investment banker who headed Obama’s auto task force that imposed 50 percent pay cuts on newly hired autoworkers.
Clinton’s main challenger, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, has no super PAC but raised $15.2 million anyway, mainly over the Internet. He actually raised more money than Clinton from small donors, those who gave less than $200. This shows that Sanders is performing his assigned function: using anti-billionaire rhetoric (which includes refusing to have a super PAC), to attract those disaffected by the right-wing policies of the Obama administration, and bringing them back into the orbit of the Democratic Party.
This entire process has nothing whatsoever to do with democracy. It shows how the US financial aristocracy manipulates public opinion, seeking to preserve the illusion of popular choice in the presidential election behind the most transparent of fig leaves. In the meantime, the billionaires will put the candidates through their paces, selecting the individual they will install in the White House to do their bidding.
Patrick Martin
HILLARY CLINTON: A dedicated disciple of OBAMANOMICS – Why
else would his banksters invest so much in her???
“That her candidacy is announced without calling for
any particular policies underscores the fact that the election is not about the
American people deciding the course of policy, but rather the vetting of
candidates to serve the interest of the financial oligarchy.”
“There is, of course, no acknowledgment that Clinton was part
of an administration that oversaw and continues to oversee the greatest
transfer of wealth from the bottom to “those at the top” in US history.”
CRONY
CAPITALISM and the FALL of A DEMOCRATIC
NATION
OBAMA’S
LOOTING BANKSTERS AGREE TO FUND HIS DICTATORSHIP… they owned him from day one!
“The
vast sums of money pocketed by bank executives are bound up with activities
that range from borderline legal to flagrantly illegal. Nearly all of the CEOs
included on the list head banks that have been the subject of multiple
investigations and fines related to the rigging of global interest and foreign
exchange rates, mortgage fraud, money laundering, tax evasion and other crimes.”
JUDICIAL
WATCH:
OBAMA
RANKS AS THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY
BARACK
OBAMA and the DEATH of the AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS.
WITH THE MIDDLE-CLASS DEAD AND BURIED, WILL THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA “The Race” HELP OBAMA BUILD HIS DICTATORSHIP? Do a search for Obama and La Raza Fascism!
HILLARY CLINTON: DEDICATED SERVANT TO
THE 1%, OBAMA’S CRIMINAL CRONY BANKSTERS and DISCIPLE of OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS for
the super-rich.
The central aim of Clinton’s speech
was to reassure the American financial oligarchy that, despite her occasional
lukewarm denunciations of corporate criminality and social inequality, she is a
right-wing, pro-business defender of Wall Street.
The speech makes clear that a Clinton
presidency will pursue the
same pro-Wall Street policies of the Obama
administration, seeking
to expand the fortunes of the super-rich at the expense
of the great
majority of society, while invoking “fairness” and “equality” as
window dressing.
Hillary bellies up to Obama’s banksters – She reeks of the smell
of BRIBES and BAILOUTS
Hillary Clinton has
vowed to take the banksters to new heights of looting!
THE ULTIMATE LOOTING of AMERICA BY BIG
BANKSTERS
STARTED UNDER BILLARY CLINTON.
THEY’VE PULLED IN HUGE BRIBES FROM BANKSTERS
SINCE THEN.
“President
Bill Clinton repealed the law in 1999. Glass-Steagall has long been popular
with liberals, who argue the repeal was part of the deregulation they say led
to the 2008 financial collapse.”
WE CAN’T
AFFORD MORE OBAMA-CLINTONomics serving the super-rich!
OBAMANOMICS:
The escalation of global financial parasitism
In fact, the US government’s response to the 2008 crash has been dedicated to inflating the wealth of the super-rich while driving down incomes for the vast majority of the population. The White House has protected Wall Street executives from legal prosecution, while the Federal Reserve has handed out trillions of dollars in cheap money through “quantitative easing” programs, leading share values to triple on major US exchanges.
OBAMAnomics:
OBAMA AND HIS WALL STREET CRONIES LOOTING AMERICA!
These are only the most striking of a barrage of numbers reported in
recent weeks, demonstrating that for the US financial aristocracy, the Crash of
2008 has been used to engineer a historic redistribution of wealth.
JOINING HILLARIA CLINTON and JEBO BUSH
fighting for illegals!
Sen. Bernie Sanders finally comes out of the
LA RAZA SUPREMAMCY closet and goes hispandering for the ILLEGALS’ VOTES.
BERNIE SANDERS and LA RAZA HILLARY CLINTON
ADDRESS THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA
Sen. Bernie Sanders – America’s answer to
Wall Street’s looting, the war on the American middle-class and jobs for
legals!
“At this point, Clinton is the choice of most
multimillionaires to be the next occupant of the White House. A recent CNBC
poll of 750 millionaires found 53 percent support for Clinton in a contest with
Republican Jeb Bush, 14 points better than Obama’s showing in the 2012 election
with the same group.”
JEBO BUSH SAYS HIS SOUTHERN WHITE HOUSE WILL
BE IN MEXICO!
….. or perhaps near his offshore bank
accounts!
…………..but
does that mean Texas??? Southern gateway for the Mexican invasion and drug
cartels???
“While the Obama Administration downplays violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities in TEXAS reveal that Mexican have transformed parts of the state into a war zone where shootings, beheadings, kidnappings and murders are common.”
THE JEBO and LA RAZA HILLARY AGENDA: Buy the
illegals’ votes with our jobs and welfare as reward
IS AMNESTY only A DEVICE TO DEPRESS WAGES ore REALLY A
CONSPIRACY TO AMNESTY DESTROYED GOP? Or just America’s middle-class?
A
week later, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said the immigration bill was “far worse”
than ObamaCare: He described the bill as an attempt by Senate Democrats “to
establish another monolithic voting bloc” among Hispanic Americans.
“In other words, the Republican Party is finished. As their
numbers grow through immigration and welfare, democrats will become the
wholesale dominant party in America until everyone’s money runs out by all
those who milk the system, i.e., 45.2 million Americans subsisting on food
stamps and assisted house, energy, medical care and electricity—will ultimately
grow to 90 million and more. All of who work will be paying for all those who
choose to live for free forever.”
NATIONAL DEBT
CRONY OBAMANOMICS – HOW OBAMA SQUANDERED AMERICA FOR HIS LOOTING WALL STREET BANKSTERS!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-reality-of-obamas-crony-capitalism.html
$3.39T Quantitative Explosion: Fed Owns More
Treasuries and MBSs Than Publicly Held Debt Amassed From Washington Through Clinton.
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