Author’s Note: This is our second interview with a longtime Wall Street Insider – an individual who, under agreed-to anonymity in order to protect their own and their client’s interests, wishes to share their views on the presidency of Barack Obama, and the past, present, and future of the American socio-economic system.
Ulsterman: First, I have to thank you once again for agreeing to the initial interview. I understand you were very hesitant, but in the end I think it went very well.
WS Insider: Agreed. I found the result to be acceptable. If I had not, there certainly would not have been this second interview.
Ulsterman: Given what is happening just down the road from this office, I have to ask you about the Occupy Wall Street events. You have to have pretty strong feelings about all of this?
WS Insider: Not really. Very little of it is real. It’s…politics. It’s stupid kids being played by powers they don’t have the capacity to understand. That’s not to say it isn’t potentially dangerous, or that the president has acted terribly irresponsibly in his clear support for the protests. But for now, I view it all as a silly sideshow. A distraction really. Or an attempted one.
Ulsterman: How so?
WS Insider: What?
Ulsterman: A distraction. How are the protests a distraction?
WS Insider: How isn’t it all a distraction? Look how some in the media are attempting to elevate the protests as something noble – something…”American”. There is nothing American about what those kids are doing down there. It’s silly. It’s boorish behavior from a wound-up mob of perpetual discontents. It’s manipulation actually. Basic manipulation.
Ulsterman: Who is manipulating this? Who is behind it? Obama? President Obama?
WS Insider: Not the president directly, no. He’s simply a benefactor of this – at least he hopes to be. He’s not capable of this. President Obama, but for a handful of years and millions of dollars, is just as ignorant and foolish as those kids playing those damn drums in the street. The fact such a person was made President of theUnited States is more than a bit…troubling.
Ulsterman: So who is manipulating the protests? You seem to indicate you know.
WS Insider: Oh, I believe most people really know. There are media who certainly know. Some of it has already been reported. Labor unions. I would place the labor unions as first in line in helping set all of this up. This anti-Wall Street rubbish. As I told you previously, labor unions are destroying this country. Have been for some time. Not the rank and file mind you – but the leadership. They have been infected. The leadership within those unions have been overtaken by the most vile leftist, anti-free market figures in the history of this nation. I truly believe that. And as their numbers have declined in private industry, these unions have turned their attentions to federal, state, and local jurisdictions – vastly increased their membership numbers in those institutions. And they are twisting the arm of this president – hard.
Ulsterman: How so?
WS Insider: What did you see in the streets down there? Beyond the stupidity of those kids. Those ridiculous people. What did you see?
Ulsterman: A mess. A loud mess.
WS Insider: That mess as you call it…that mess is power. A display of power. These unions are showing the president who holds the real power over these people. They can work for this president, or they can work against him – and it will be the unions who ultimately will make that decision. That is a significant message being played out down there. President Obama has little to do with controlling such a mob. He is simply a by-product of it. His jobs bill? (Shakes head) That move is nothing more than a feeble promise by the president that more money is on its way. To those unions. The first stimulus bill…what was that but a massive payback to his labor union masters? Keep those government checks coming. Those millions of government employees – the country has reached the tipping point there. To have a government so big, so vast, so powerful, so controlled now by organized labor. Labor whose leadership openly embraces socialism, Marxism, and any number of other –isms that all add up to anti-freedom. Anti-business. Anti-America. That is what is unfolding just down the street from us. The people engaged in it are silly and stupid. Ignorant and incapable. But the motives of the organizer behind these protests are very-very dangerous to the country. To each and every one of us. We are all in terrible danger here.
Ulsterman: That’s rather bleak.
WS Insider: The truth often is. My words don’t do justice to just how dire the situation has become.
Ulsterman: What’s the remedy? How does the country go about…dealing with this threat?
WS Insider: Vote. Educate ourselves – and vote. It is the genius of our system – the simplest of remedies, and yet…we squander the opportunity in this country time and time again in favor of continued protection of self-interest, or giving in to more and more distraction. If your house is on fire, do you continue watching Dancing with the Stars, or do you take action to put out the flames? America is on fire this very moment. Freedom is being attacked at every level – everywhere. President Obama is simply adding fuel to this fire. He appears to have no interest in putting out those flames. Far from it. And why would he? His entire life is a product of years of anti-Americanism is it not? From his upbringing as a child, to his time as a radicalized college student and later community organizer…to his ascent to the Presidency of theUnited States. He is what he is, and this country so foolishly and irresponsibly ignored all the realities that are Barack Obama, and gifted him the powers of president. We are all to blame for this. All of us.
Ulsterman: I didn’t vote for the man.
WS Insider: Your attempt to disqualify blame is not that simple.
Ulsterman: You just said voting was the simplest of remedies. Your words.
WS Insider: (Pause) Yes…
Ulsterman: I didn’t vote for the man. Did you?
WS Insider: No.
Ulsterman: No? You voted for McCain?
WS Insider: No – I didn’t vote. I haven’t voted for…for a very long time.
Ulsterman: Really? Why not? How can you sit here and say how genius our system of free elections are and then admit to not even participating?
WS Insider: I won’t offer up any excuse. No reasonable one exists. As I said, we are all guilty – we are all to blame for how the country has devolved into its current condition. Myself included.
Ulsterman: So do you intend to vote now? 2012? You intend to vote?
WS Insider: Yes – and more.
Ulsterman: More what?
WS Insider: Just as our friend is working to defeat the president’s re-election hopes from within the Democratic Party, I am doing what I can in my world. And I’m not alone in doing so.
Ulsterman: Wall Street – the donors, the bundlers, they won’t support Obama, right? I’ve heard that already.
WS Insider: That’s accurate to some degree – when you say “Wall Street” it’s not a single-entry clubhouse. Far more vast than that. And the difference of opinions even more so. But there is a considerable…refusal if you will, to accommodate this president’s desire to be re-elected among a growing number who are directly or indirectly involved with Wall Street and the business community at large. This president has attempted to use us as his excuse for what ails the country too often. It comes much too easily to him.
Ulsterman: You seem confident.
WS Insider: Good – that’s my intent.
Ulsterman: Is it reasonable? Your confidence?
WS Insider: Yes.
Ulsterman: How so? Why?
WS Insider: That…I cannot say. Not yet.
Ulsterman: The last time we spoke…you were pretty adamant about maintaining respect for the president – President Obama. You made a point of correcting me when I addressed him. Do you still feel the need to remain so respectful of somebody you also seem to think was a terrible mistake for the country? And if so, why?
WS Insider: It’s how I view the office of president. Its tradition. It’s…legacy. This is the greatest country in the history of humankind. In the last century we saved the world not once – but twice. Toward the end of that century we freed hundreds of millions from the tyranny of communism…off the subject just a bit…but I have been told you have a great deal of admiration for President Reagan. Is that so?
Ulsterman: Yes…and I was told you met him. Personally.
WS Insider: I did. Through a connection to one of his California people. They were the foundation of his candidacy. The seed money if you will. I was loosely affiliated with helping to organize some of that here inNew York. A remarkable collection of talent surrounded that man – President Reagan. And he gave every indication of knowing that – and acknowledged it often. Much to his credit.
Ulsterman: And you met him…when he was president?
WS Insider: I did. It remains one of the greatest moments of my life to have shaken his hand. A great human being and yet he was so humble. The right man at a time when the country needed that very thing. There is so much in common to that time and this time. What the country is facing. It’s eerie the similarities.
Ulsterman: Did you vote for Reagan?
WS Insider: President Reagan. You mean to say President Reagan.
Ulsterman: Yes – did you vote for President Reagan?
WS Insider: It is with more than a bit of regret I tell you I did not.
Ulsterman: Shame on you.
WS Insider: Yes. I have had few regrets in this life. That is one of them.
Ulsterman: You do intend to vote in 2012 though, right?
WS Insider: Yes – that’s what I said…and much more than that. Much more.
Ulsterman: Can you be more specific?
WS Insider: How about we start with those fools in the streets? Time to sweep the streets clean of that charade.
Ulsterman: How do you plan on doing that?
WS Insider: By picking up a broom.
Ulsterman: You won’t say?
WS Insider: No.
Ulsterman: What then?
WS Insider: More former donors will back off from the president. There will be a significant shift away from the White House in donations. Significant. K-Street…much of it, is running from this administration. And for good reason of course. Then the ad firms will push against the networks a bit – to facilitate somewhat more balanced coverage of the election than what befell us in 2008. That was a travesty.
Ulsterman: Ad firms?
WS Insider: Yes. Networks require revenue from these firms…hundreds of millions…billions, in revenue each year. It is what sustains them. That revenue will not be a given this time around. Things must change. That change will not benefit President Obama. The unions will attempt to counterbalance that. Let them try – we will outspend them this time around. We now have the means to more easily do so. They put up half a billion for President Obama the last time. Fine. We will put up a billion against him – or more if need be, in 2012. These unions wish to promote an anti-capitalism agenda and wrap it around the current resident of the White House? Fine – we will be promoting and protecting the free market as much as has ever been done in my professional lifetime – and that goes back more than a few years. This face didn’t come to me by taking the easy way. I earned every crack and crevice.
Ulsterman: What if Obama – President Obama…what if he wins re-election?
WS Insider: As our mutual acquaintance has already told you, that is simply not an option. I want to make something clear here – perhaps I haven’t done so enough. I have the utmost respect for the position of president. I have come to hold little respect for the individual who currently holds that position. I am absolutely convinced of his inability to comprehend even a fraction of what is happening around him. He is not so much stupid…I don’t wish to say that – but he is clearly very-very ignorant. There appear to be those around him who like it that way. Sadly, in order to get to them, we must first inflict a certain degree of damage onto the office of president.
Ulsterman: What do you mean by damage?
WS Insider: Our friend has indicated to you their belief that the Fast and Furious scandal is the most serious challenge facing the administration. That it could lead to the downfall of Attorney General Holder and then leave the president himself vulnerable to things that took place back inChicago. Is my understanding of that correct?
Ulsterman: Yes – that sums it up…pretty good.
WS Insider: I don’t agree with that though. Fast and Furious is a serious offense to be sure. What has been revealed – to this point only partially, by the Solyndra scandal, is far more serious, not only to this administration but to the entire Democratic Party. Many of them have their hands in the corruption that was the Obama Stimulus Bill of 2009. Solyndra is but one small example of how that money was spent. The dealings that took place under the false guise of saving the economy.
Ulsterman: Are you…are you implying –name withheld- is not being honest in their views regarding Fast and Furious vs. Solyndra?
WS Insider: I don’t wish to say they lack honesty. I would simply caution you to keep your options open when determining which is the more valuable tool to be used against the Obama administration. Perhaps both can play equal parts. It is my personal understanding – and this is the talk of others in positions of some influence, that Solyndra – what Solyndra could ultimately reveal, could prove far more damaging to the entire political system…and certainly to the Democratic Party. –Name withheld- has spent their adult life protecting that party, promoting that party, and they have made a fine living for themselves doing so. That kind of loyalty, while admirable, can prove somewhat debilitating when it comes to the kind of… absolution necessary to right these kinds of wrongs. I will say this – I cannot recall when so many who are so powerful have been so afraid as there are at this time. –Name withheld- still believes the Democratic Party can be saved. I don’t agree. Their attempt to salvage what is left of the party may lead them to promote one Obama scandal over another one at the expense of the greater truth. I would simply ask that you maintain equal vigilance. Can you do so?
Ulsterman: I thought I had.
WS Insider: Perhaps. Perhaps not.
Ulsterman: So you are gonna push the Solyndra scandal against the president?
WS Insider: Me? No. Others more capable of such things are already doing that. I am simply pointing out I believe it to ultimately be of more consequence than Fast and Furious. Or at the very least – equally important.
Ulsterman: I have no problem with that – whatever it takes to bring down Obama.
WS Insider: President Obama.
Ulsterman: Right…President Obama.
WS Insider: You dislike calling him that, don’t you?
Ulsterman: He’s not my president. I won’t give him that respect.
WS Insider: Respect is to be earned. I would agree he has not done much in that regard.
Ulsterman: So look for the Wall Street protests to be…”swept up”. Look for donors to continue to pull away from the president. Look for…look for…
WS Insider: The ad firms. The ad firms to place pressure upon the networks to provide more favorable coverage.
Ulsterman: What else? Am I missing something?
WS Insider: Solyndra. And more like it. Much more.
Ulsterman: Thank you again for this opportunity.
WS Insider: Before you go, do you mind if I ask you something?
Ulsterman: Feel free.
WS Insider: Who do you plan on voting for in 2012?
Ulsterman: Anyone but Barack Obama.
WS Insider: It’s that simple for you?
Ulsterman: Yes – yes it is.
WS Insider: You have no preference yet? From among the GOP candidates?
Ulsterman: Preferences…sure. I don’t have an individual choice yet. Why do you ask?
WS Insider: I find your…how simple you seem to make it. Rather…refreshing.
Ulsterman: The right things are often the most simple. At least in my experience.
WS Insider: I am not sure if I should call that naïve or something else.
Ulsterman: Call it whatever you like – at the end of the day I could give a sh-t.
WS Insider: (Chuckles) I hope we get to do this again soon. I’m beginning to genuinely enjoy our little talks. You’re every bit as interesting as I was told you were.
Ulsterman: Thank you. I feel the same.
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Wonderful interview! Worth the wait, but I hope there’s more soon. Will tweet.
Lets not forget what made it all possible.
They picked Chicago as their headquarters for a reason.
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has been protecting all of them ! See for yourself.
http://illinoispaytoplay.com/
Lightsquared should be the biggest scandal: suborning perjury, endangering the defenses of the United States of America. What else do you call it when the President’s apparatchik insists that a 4 star general perjure himself? When what is at stake is our eyes and ears – our survival?
I surely hope we have a backup system to GPS, because this will have alerted our enemies as to the mechamisms that can blind us. Of course they – the enemies – have already seen this. But the public? Congress? Do they know that our President is willfully blinding us?
This is treason. Regardless of Lightsquared’s intent: for a buck for damage, it fell upon our leadership to say no. They said nothing of the sort, and arranged for a lie. Far worse than Solyndra. Far worse than FaF. And Obama is not alone – this clearly comes from a number of top officials. Maybe even Secretary Clinton, Panetta and Gates? If they’re not involved – and I don’t believe that they AREN’T – they’d better do a William French Smith and pull the plug on these jokers, before it’s too late.
Treason. And if they do nothing. Treason.
This is worth a look !
Chris Wallace Darrell Issa interview, Operation Fast and Furious, Solyndra, Attorney General Eric Holder congressional investigation
http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/chris-wallace-darrell-issa-interview-operation-fast-and-furious-solyndra-attorney-general-eric-holder-congressional-investigation/#comments
From the Wall St Insider’s mouth to God’s ears (I hope!)
mmmmmm. Gun running or money laundering tax payer money to fund crony Chicago style pay to play cronism? Choices choices…
What if Obama gave a speech and no body came?
Feels like I’m watching an episode of “The Wire”.
Insightful read, Thanks Ulsterman for “not giving a Sh*t at the end of the day.”
It is not long until the next election. From the sidelines, it would seem to me that timing is a very important part of bringing down the democrat party, the public employees’ union leadership and that person in the white house and his family, cabinet and, especially, his lead advisors. The timing will, I would think, be tricky to bring it all together at election time such that there is a landslide of votes against the present regime.
Wall Street guy advises the advertising agencies will put pressure on the media outlets to cut out the crap. Media moguls will filter the word on down to the talking heads before the cameras and before their word processors to cut it out!
There should be a whole lot of Rolaids sold to those people! I can just imagine the Garafolos, the Olbermanns, the Crissie Matthews, Perky Katie Couric, just all those pampered princely purloiners of putrid and pustular propaganda.
The tale of corruption won’t be an easy one to report and thoroughly describe to the American electorate.
It’s a rather complicated scheme of kickbacks, preferential treatment and things being “understood” between those involved, yet left out of the four corners of various contracts.
And despite the Insider’s prediction that the media is going to be forced to be more evenhanded this go round, I’m not at all confident in their ability to understand and report on this level of financial corruption.
Fast and furious is far more straight forward than the intricate scandals contained within the stimulas spending package.
We’ll see.
From “Band of Brother” (if you have seen it, you know the scene):
Winters: Captain Sobel.
Sobel: Major Winters. [starts to walk away]
Winters: Captain Sobel… we salute the rank, not the man. [Sobel slowly turns and salutes]
President Obama is the President of the United States of America, for better or for worse and we all have some responsibility for that. Reagan would not remove his suit-coat in the Oval Office, this guy puts his feet up on the desk and wears shorts and flip-flops.. but the office remains the same. We cannot forget that or we forget the Greatness of this nation, that office and all who have held it before.
I would call him President Obama if I had any reason to believe that he meant a word of his oath of office. Actions speak louder than words, and 0bama’s actions are those of a traitor. He should face the same fate as Mussolini and Saddam Hussein.
Barack HUSSEIN Obama….
I’ve told my husband that Obama/Pelosi/Reid are destroying the Democrat Party. The election of Nov 2012 will prove this. Wall Street Insider is right in that there is no hope for the Democrat Party… Either it will take a long time to bring it back from this slippery slope downward path it’s on or it is doomed forever! WS INsider is spot on!
“..stupid kids being played by powers that don’t have the capacity to understand….” Really? I don’t think so.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/10/welcome-to-the-ows-99-movement-%e2%80%9cwe-will-not-be-co-opted%e2%80%9d.html
Nice try Kathy but what I read above fits with reports earlier this year that SEIU has planned these protests. Nothing organic or autonomous here…
A headless snake. Anarchists have no direction, no leadership and inevitably they are ALWAYS taken over by a group that does. And these protests came about at the direction of SEIU, moveo,org, and all their Soros funded affiliates. I am on their mailing lists, and I got the call to protest from all of them at the same time, two weeks before it actually happened. It is no coincidence that protest demonstrations are always populated by young, disaffected, shiftless, unemployed alternative lifestyle dope smoking zombies. They are ignorant, narcissistic and gullible, perfect useful idiots to be manipulated for any purpose.
Anyone remember my post from October 6? This is nothing but a UNION push for the jobs bill/ stimulus 2. I speculate Obnon has told unions the only way he can back door more money to them is to scare the R’s into voting for it.
Listen to what he said,”THEY WILL RUN THE R CONGRESSMEN AND WOMEN OUT OF TOWN;” I SPECULATE This was not a premonition but a threat… Watch yer six folks. I fear physical altercations in the way of burning businesses and/ or execs homes and actual assaults are on the way.
plainolamerican
October 6, 2011 at 11:37 pm
Would not be much speculation to see F&F weapons coming out if the OBnon planned and Union paid for protestors on Wall Street does not convince congress to give in on OBnon’s Bailout part deux also marketed as jobsbill.
The Democrats have proven to be completely corrupt.
But we can’t afford to have only one party.
Something has to take the place of the Democrat Party.
This is dangerous.
Fast and Furious is about hundreds of murdered Mexicans. I’m not sure how misappropriated money, bribes, if you will, compares to all those dead people!
Fast and Furious is very serious.
I think the Insider’s depiction of of Solyndra as being more serious than F&F is probably correct from the standpoint that F&F is an internal operation that was limited in scope, carried out by plotters in an administration that is going to go down in history as the abysmal failure that we know it to be, while Solyndra is an example of a systemic problem that has made politics of both parties fundamentally corrupt and threatens to destroy our system of government if left unchecked. It’s like the difference between an abscess and septicemia. One can be drained and healed, the other is in the bloodstream and will cause massive organ shutdown and death, unless a systemic intervention is undertaken.
You are dead on in your analysis, however the difference between Solyndra and F&F is that Solyndra will be perceived by the vast majority of people as just corrupt politicians doing what they do. They’ll say, “They all do it” In otherwords the crime just doesn’t resonate whereas F&F although less serious to the Republic is easily explained.
Solyndra and F&F only scratch the surface.
Sorry, I know this is kind of trite, but MORE, MORE!!!! Need more of both Insiders! You’ve turned me into a junkie…lol.
And he says the solution is to: VOTE?! Please, don’t insult my intelligence. Like we would have been better off with McCain. He gripes about the unions (fine by me), but the whole underlying mess is greed and fraud perpetuated by a whole host of people including unions, Wall St./Banksters, politicians, bureaucrats, all the way down to Americans receiving their bread (pension checks, SS checks, welfare, EBS, home equity [so-called], etc.). Won’t Get Fooled Again is the theme song for multiple generations. If you believe voting will fix this mess – be my guest.
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“If you believe voting will fix this mess – be my guest.”
Lead, follow, or get out of the way is more than just words, wwwild. If this is your position, go sit in the corner and suck your thumb while those who are not afraid to suffer the slings and arrows of the corruptocrats and their lackeys go to work.
Yes, McCain would have been a disaster too. The public has allowed the MEDIA to select the candidates. And they’re doing it again. Rather obvious that FOX is in the bag for Romney. Rather obvious that CNN. MSNBC, NBC believes Obama is the second coming. I say – stop letting the media do your thinking.
McCain would have been a thousand times better than Barack Hussein Obama. And not voting is not an option. Get lost, trolls.
Voting is extremely important because voting is all we have, right now, unless we wish to take to the streets and cause a huge ruckus like these kids are doing. And what the heck would be accomplished by that? We would just be tarred/painted with a completely different brush than these kids are being painted with. We’d be vilified and our actions used by our enemies to help obama. I, personally, am glad that the big guns on wall street are removing their power, money and influence away from the white house. It sure is about time! I am also glad the news stations are waking up from the poisoned apple that was fed to them during the Obama campaign in 2008.
All we can do is watch, wait and learn as much about each GOP candidate as possible so that we don’t make the same mistake next time that we made the last time by electing obama. This time around I am learning each politician’s voting history and will find out which side of the “I love America” fence they are on. Fence straddlers will be considered the same as any other traitor, in my book. I want to make sure I help elect someone who will put America and Americans first and foremost.
First, I appreciate Wall Street Insider’s participation in the interview.
But, Wall Street Insider is just as SELF-INTERESTED, as he claimed others are.
Wall Street has enormous influence on the U. S. government, both Congress and the White House and most assuredly in both political parties.
In fact, many believe President Obama is a puppet of Wall Street (including myself). Sure, Obama and his minions would like to co-opt the protests and in some quarters will likely succeed.
A lot of Wall Street Banks got billions of dollars from TARP, which Obama supported and his Treasury Secretary carried out. Obama promised to re-negotiate the NAFTA so-called “free trade” agreement — but didn’t — and has just sent three additional agreements to Capitol Hill for votes.
At present, the WALL STREET SYSTEM is failing main street America — BIG TIME.
Wall Street Insider needs to look in the mirror and reflect on the state of the economy and analyze what is going wrong — where does the responsibility lie.
Where does G.E., who paid zero taxes on billions of profits while out-sourcing thousands of jobs fit into the equation — and the hundreds of other (Masters of the Universe) trans-national corporations doing the same thing?
A majority of both Republicans & Democrats are seeing the results of out-sourcing and off-shoring and object to this hollowing out of America’s manufacturing base (what made America the most powerful country on Earth).
I suggest Wall Street Insider is attempting to steer folks away from the issues that many Republicans objected to and was part of the Tea Party movement like banker bailouts & crony capitalism — crony capitalism (monied special interests getting special deals not available to the average Joe). Wall Street Insider wants to use divide & rule tactics of making this into a left versus right issue, America’s problems go far beyond simple “left – right” politics.
Both the Democratic Party rank-n-file and the Republican Party rank-n-file have multiple beefs with how Wall Street, the FED, and trans-national corporations have been enriching themselves at the expense of the health and well being of the American People and the American Economy.
I agree Solyndra is important because it symbolizes crony capitalism going on in the Democratic Party. But Rick Perry’s record in Texas symbolizes crony capitalism at the state level in the Republican Party.
Crony capitalism has infected both political parties and is connected to elite globalists as well as local small-time actors on the political stage.
Actually, when you examine & analyze what Wall Street Insider said — it wasn’t much — (paraphrase) “I don’t like Obama, he’s hurting the country” and “I’ll support attempts to cut his political funding” and “Solyndra is big political trouble”.
Okay.
But that’s not particularly insightful or newsworthy.
What would be more insightful and newsworthy would be revelations about why Wall Street supported Obama in the first place.
What were they thinking???
These “Masters of the Universe”.
Nice that you only mentioned Perry in your post. Guess that neither Romney or Cain have been involved in the same?
Perry doesn’t have any issues with Crony Capitalism…..in case that’s what you are talking about? He received $5,000 from Gardasil?
Merck gave two checks, one for $1,000 and another for $5,000 to Perry in the 2006 election timeframe (in 2008, they contributed a whopping $2,500). Check out the source to view all of Perry’s contributions: ProPublica. In fact, Merck has only contributed $23,500 to Perry over a 1998-2010 span, not exactly George Soros money. For comparison, from 2000-2006 Merck gave $2,460,000 to state politicians across 40 states.
25 other states considered the same thing, so I guess they are all guilty of crony capitalism, as well?
Do the research, Rick Perry has engages in many more acts of crony capitalism than the Gardasil.
Examples? Since you are the one making the claim?
Well, since this post isn’t about Rick Perry, that was a side point — it seems you are pretty sensitive about the subject.
But here goes:
Perry is soft on illegal immigration and that’s all about crony capitalism — cheap labor for his buddies in Texas.
Multiple loans to his buddies from two different economic funds he has final say over. One where he overruled the local committee’s first rejection.
Giving state jobs to his buddies in a gas company he has an ownership interest in.
Perry is a globalist which is all about crony capitalism ie the Trans Texas Corridor where he wanted to take land by eminent domain and give it to a foreign corporation.
Promoted a Chinese telecommunications company well known for spying in other countries.
Perry set up foreign free trade zones where foreign companies get special deals not available to Texas or American corporations.
Wanted to sell insurance policies on retired Texas teachers to UBS bank which would bet on if they would die.
Lauded NAFTA which again is about globalist crony capitalism.
Several land deals with contributors where Perry bought low and then political supporters bought the land high.
Rick Perry is a pay to play boss hog: Perry often gives the state’s most prestigious appointments to major campaign donors. Of the 3,995 people Perry appointed from 2001 to June 2010, 921 of them or their spouses gave his campaigns more than $17 million, and Perry has collected more than $6 million from the people he appointed to university boards of regents.
Perry for years has enjoyed lavish perks and travel — mostly funded by a group of deep-pocketed supporters, admittedly allowed by Texas’s lack ethics rules.
Don’t you think Perry turned around and returned the favor?
Rick Perry is a Republican version of slick Willie Clinton.
I was wrong.
OWS has been taken over by Socialists, Collectivists, and even people who hate others success.
That I can’t support.
Yeah, when someone makes a spurious claim, I like proof?
Defensive? How about your reply in my asking for proof?
I could say the moon is made of cheese, too.
Links?
If this is a true account of a interview, Then I am seeing sunshine trough the cloud of waste and dishonesty for the first time in a few years, If not it is great fiction. I think I will take it as truth and brighten things such as hope and prayer up after the gloom of Obama and his gang of thieves. Thanks for a ray of sun shine.
It’s not as easy as voting for anyone but Obama. If we replace him with another politician that is nearly as bad or even worse, the only thing that will have changed is that our chance to restore Liberty to the United States of America is that much less. So since Obama, is for Big government, anti-sovereignty, fascist/marxist economic policies, and turning the federal government into the central government, ask yourself, which candidate is for limited government, sovereignty, the free market, and making the federal government abide by the Constitution. And when you have your answer, see if your candidate has the track record to back up what they are saying.
What is the difference between the “Occupy Wall St.” crowd and a fresh pile of steaming, stinky, stomach-turning dog turds? Nothing, except one’s origin was really organic.
Hey Wall Street Guy………….Get on board the CAIN TRAIN!
Ulsterman, I hate to say this, but the Wall Street Insider is playing you for a fool.
In regards to your voting in 2012, you say “anyone but Obama”, to which WSI says “I find your…how simple you seem to make it. Rather…refreshing.” Actually, this thinking makes it very simple for TPTB.
What we are seeing here is a form of the Hegelian Dialectic. TPTB want to move to more corporate control. So they propose an extreme movement to the left and corruption – President Obama. Then in all of the chaos they propose a “solution” – go to the right and the GOP. But you don’t end up where you originally started. You’re still to the right and corporate control. Only now you won’t notice it so much and will be so happy to be rid of “O”, that you won’t notice the other changes that they’ll bring along as well.
So, any old GOP candidate will do? What would be the point of electing an “Obama Lite”? How about Romney? His Mass. health plan was a blueprint for Obamacare. He’s flip-flopped on so many issues in order to pander to his audience. And that’s just one of the people on the GOP stage.
Many agree that the Federal Reserve is one of the main causes of the problems in this country, yet one of the other candidates – Cain – used to head up one of the Fed’s regional banks.
Unless we shine a spotlight and use a microscope on *ALL* of the GOP candidates to find the very best one – or find someone else if need be – then nothing really will be gained by ousting President Obama.
This “anybody but …” mentality will simply continue the problems this country is facing. As the old saying goes, “the only thing that changes is the names of the guilty”.
Please, Ulsterman, put as much thought and research into the GOP candidates are you are the Obama administration.
MJM… Re “Many agree that the Federal Reserve is one of the main causes of the problems in this country, yet one of the other candidates – Cain – used to head up one of the Fed’s regional banks.”
That is an untrue statement as worded. Cain has NEVER “headed up” any Federal Reserve bank.
Oh, oh, the Organizing For America trolls are up and running and on the payroll again as those reelection campaign funds begin to dribble in.
Oops – mistake in 3rd paragraph of my post. It should have said “You’re still to the LEFT and corporate control.”
WSI: “What has been revealed – to this point only partially, by the Solyndra scandal, is far more serious, not only to this administration but to the entire Democratic Party. Many of them have their hands in the corruption that was the Obama Stimulus Bill of 2009. Solyndra is but one small example of how that money was spent.”
Did you see the article today on SunPower in Human Events? A Dem Congressman (Rep. George R. Miller III, D-Calif) and his “non-lobbyist” son help drive a $1.2B taxpayer guarantee to create some construction jobs (350) and 15 full-time jobs, along with a manufacturing facility in MEXICO. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46761
The veneer is cracking more and more….
YOU are the resistance!!
Sounds like a guy more full of himself than valuable. He seems to have lots of insider this, insider that, but unaware of his own willing ignorance to the heart of the problem. Voting isn’t going to change jack. Not when you understand the nature of the problem. I am not proud. Knowing the problem is easy, you just have to want to know.
Funny. Unions couldn’t handle the private sector so they unionize the public sector. Just like an individual that can’t handle the private sector they get a gov’t job. The only difference now is that the union members won’t vote with their wallet. Whereas private sector unions had to deal with private money and businesses and got squashed. Public unions controlled by the democrats and their ilk, vote for me and get more stimulus all makes sense. However, the public sector can’t and won’t exist without the private sector. So we run out of money and destroy ourselves or we start shrinking the size of gov’t. Anyways, the people protesting for work, never were really interested in a job anyway now were they…………………………..
So the unions take over the public sector and drive the cost of government higher. Where do we go for a cheaper alternative? NWO?
So, the protesters are being ordered to leave Zuccotti park so that it can be cleaned? Maybe this is what the WS Insider meant when he spoke of picking up a broom to sweep the streets of the charade.
This gentleman says “anyone but Obama in 2012.” Please don’t forget: that is how we got Obama. In 2008, it was “anyone but Bush.” And Palin made me afraid of McCain. So I think voters need to be a bit more discriminating in 2012. Unfortunately, we are in trouble when we have to continuously vote for the lesser of two evils. Or in the coming election, the lesser of six or seven evils.