Clinton camp asks Sanders: Break up big banks? How?

[riversedge]

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Source: Reuters



Clinton camp asks Sanders: Break up big banks? How?


By Amanda Becker

April 7, 2016


By Amanda Becker

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -....................

In an email to supporters, a senior Clinton campaign aide said “even on his signature issue of breaking up the banks” Sanders had been “unable to answer basic questions." The email included a transcript of the full interview.

“If you are going to be a single-issue candidate, at least know your single issue,” Clinton press secretary Brian Fallon said on Twitter.

"After reading the NYDN interview today, I feel like someone should ask HOW after every one of these declarative sentences in Sanders stump," deputy press secretary Jesse Ferguson posted Tuesday on Twitter.

Sanders, a U.S. Senator from Vermont, has made reducing income inequality and breaking up “too-big-to-fail” banks central to his presidential campaign, blasting Clinton for money she received for speeches to banks and accusing her of being too closely tied to the financial industry.

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Clinton told CNN on Wednesday she was "appalled" by statements Sanders made to the New York Daily News about gun manufacturer liability and said it was “unclear as to whether he understood how Dodd-Frank works,” referring to a Wall Street reform law.

(Additional reporting by Megan Cassella; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore and Jeffrey Benkoe)

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/clinton-sanders-turn-spiky-ahead-york-primary-100817640.html

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I imagine Sanders--by the time of the debate will have done his homework and have answers as to How his goal of breaking up he banks will be accomplished. (We can debate the how--the policy then)

[mac56]

1. Yup, the knives are coming out.

It's almost as if... as if... they're worried about New York.

But no, that's just foolish talk. Forget I said anything.

[riversedge]

3. Clinton is sticking to the issues and you snark.

[pandr32]

13. Sander's whole campaign is substance-free

So there is a whole lot of room for snark.

[mac56]

18. Geez, did I once again accidentally stumble into the Hillary group?

No, can't be. Cha Cha Cha kicked me out. Sorry.

[reddread]

29. with all of the bashing they did 8 years back?

thats some club.

[AgerolanAmerican]

2. Step 1

treat all the endless millions they pour into political system as the bribes they are

[johnfunk]

4. Step 2: Turn all non-S&L banks into…

… a public utility - including their investment/securities divisions.

[riversedge]

5. So his grassroots donors are giving him bribes also?

[baldguy]

12. Step 0: Win the election.

The Sanders camp seems to think a perquisite for Step 0 is to destroy the Democratic Party.

[hereforthevoting]

6. He has already gone back to outline the things he has been talking about the whole time

I can name a dozen issues which lead me to vote for him off the top of my head. Her one issue is entitlement.

[hollowdweller]

7. Excuse my stupidity

But how does Clinton propose to do it??

Or does she think they should remain large and that the "living will" requirements will be enough to prevent calamity?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. Large banks are good. The larger the better.

Greater efficiency: More money for fewer speeches.

What's good for the Clintons is good for America.

[Surya Gayatri]

8. Excellent piece. Thanks for posting.

[baldguy]

9. Careful - asking serious questions about major policy proposals is verboten in Bernieworld.

Especially when those proposals are little more than wishful thinking, with less substance than the magnetic fields the bits are written on.

[Plucketeer]

17. "asking serious questions about major policy proposals is verboten in Bernieworld"

Of course! Let's not forget, the princess has "Cut it out!" for a firewall.

[Jester Messiah]

10. About like this...

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-files-bill-to-break-up-big-banks

[Gothmog]

11. This is a talking point that Sanders never expected to be enacted

Sanders has been using this talking point for a long time but even Sanders knew that there is zero chance that this silly plan will be enacted and so he never looked into what implementing this plan would entailed. Sanders is a great deal like Donald Trump. Trump has some crazy plans but has no way to implement his plans.

[pandr32]

14. Especially without a strong Congressional coalition

[Plucketeer]

21. Can you even BEGIN to comprehend

the immense width and breadth of "Political Revolution"? I think not. And the responses to this thread reveal that you've got lots of company.
For instance.... SO MANY other nations have single payer health care - no one goes to the poorhouse for being sick. And yet to hear Hillary and her Rethug chorus chant - we CAN'T have that here. We KNOW that's bullshit, but there it is. So to say we CAN'T dice up these blood-sucking entities is just plain shortsighted and ignorant. There are some of us who are tired of CAN'T. We're tired of being the WAR and the FUCK the populace country. You CAN'T players just go on and play on your contorted, old gameboard. We WE CAN thinkers are gonna start with some fresh rules and craft them to suit US - not the Uber-Wealthy.

[john978]

15. Open the script...cue her appalled indignation

yet another example of why people do not believe/trust her.

[Bohemianwriter]

16. How about corporate death penalty?

Citizens United (which is supported by Hillary despite her desperate attempts to claim she doesn't) rules that corporations are people.
USA still has the death penalty.
So how about corporate death penalty and jail time for the criminal elements involved?

[blackspade]

19. He was clear in the interview.

The reporter asking the question didn't know what they were talking about.
The Federal Reserve doesn't have the authority to break up banks.
It's the Treasury and the executive that does, as Sanders explained.

That the Clinton campaign doesn't understand this any better than the reporter means that they are incompetent or liars. I'm not sure which yet.

[mac56]

22. Agreed. It was a hatchet job by the NYDN.

[Plucketeer]

25. Yes - and what this thread shows

is that Clinton and her blinder-wearing "faithful" have no DESIRE to reign in these humongous and totally merciless monetary monsters. Since the status quo serves the wealthy (like the Clintons!) the whole Clinton machine is trying it's best to not make suggestions they have NO intentions of keeping.

I often shake my head in disbelief as to how IGNORANT some folks can be. But then, I remind myself of the gobs of money that the faithful pour upon the televangelists - certain that doing so is buying favor with God. There's A LOT of deluded people out there. People that adore wealthy "profits" like Hillary.

[My Good Babushka]

20. If she's asking him she must not know how, either. nt.

[Plucketeer]

27. She doesn't WANT to

She likes those speech gigs at $225K an hour. The Clinton's personal minimum wage.

[RealAmericanDem]

24. Have faith; he'll do it the same way Trump will build his wall.

[mac56]

26. Or maybe he'll just tell them: "Cut it out!"

[Omaha Steve]

28. Locking after a review by forum hosts

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