Bernie Sanders, we the people demand that you divest your Wall Street portfolios!

[JaneyVee]

Big banks, big pharma, and the fracking industry!

http://garnetnews.com/2016/04/04/bernie-sanders-invested-wall-street/

Should I start a petition?

[revbones]

1. ROFl Hillary followers get more ridiculous every day. Thanks for the laugh. nt

[TheBlackAdder]

43. It's actually getting comical. The things that "upset" people, because I don't think they are upset.

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They know it's crap, just put out there to trick others.


.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

2. Climate change and the sixth global mass-extinction event is happening now

some people think about things that are important

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

3. Like clockwork... Brock posts the latest ratfuck smear...

And in jump the Hillarians to smother themselves in that mud and rat feces.

[MisterP]

19. "This is a troll, name calling is ridiculous and over the top. Hide this."

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[Warren Stupidity]

4. We the talking point regurgitators demand our vomit

be taken seriously!

[synergie]

44. Isn't that what the BS posts in GD-P are all about?

[CalvinballPro]

5. I know I'll sign it. Enough hypocrisy from "Mr Integrity" already. nt

[cosmicone]

6. Espeially Bernie's investments in fossil fuel and chemical companies nt

[newfie11]

7. Sure

[hobbit709]

8. Yep. Once an hour a new OP with the same BS talking point from Camp Weathervane.

[HumanityExperiment]

9. Wall Street and CGI...

We the people want to see HRC's transcripts...

We the people want HRC to divest herself of CGI...

[hollysmom]

13. heck I want to see what stocks she owns while we are at it.

Just to see who would get what from her.

[nichomachus]

25. I'm more interested in which stocks own her. nt

[KansDem]

28. Nailed it!

[Jarqui]

32. +1,000,000 - post of the day! :) nt

[Lucinda]

33. Her tax returns are public. Dig in! n/t

[Unwanted Democrat]

10. You first, Clinton.

[Trust Buster]

11. Maybe this is the reason he refuses to release his tax returns. Hillary has released her last

8 years worth of returns.

[nichomachus]

26. And as soon as she releases her transcripts

we'll see where her true loyalties lie.

[beedle]

30. If you're interested in his investments

then he is, as are all members of congress, legally required to report them to the FEC ... you can find all of his investments going back to the 1987 I believe it is. Opensecrets.org would have them all.

[Jarqui]

12. TIAA & Valic are retirement funds.

(maybe CREF and Vanguard too - didn't bother to check)

Bernie gives them some money and they invest it for his retirement.

Isn't that how it works with those outfits?

Once again, it looks like David Brock and company are pretty hard up to find anything very sinister about Bernie.

Promoting stupid crap like this is a waste of time and is kind of reassuring that after digging around for months trying to find some crap on Sanders, they really couldn't come up with much -

Whining about his tax returns (already partially provided/disclosed since 1990) and who his retirement funds invest in, is pretty lame.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

16. Yes Vanguard are 401k and Mutual Funds... They have great index funds with some of the lowest fees.

[Nanjeanne]

18. TIAA CREF is a retirement plan also primarily for University employees. Vanguard I'm not

sure of - but think it is also a variety of retirement plans.

But you can talk till you are blue in the face. None of this will convince them of anything. They don't want reason or fact. They want to WHINE!!!!

[Sancho]

22. I'm an educator with a similar retirement account; and I moved out of Valic...

Is Bernie too stupid to roll his money into a more responsible fund? Valid is part of AIG for god's sake!

Brock is correct - Bernie doesn't have to put his $s with the worst of the abuser firms.

Doesn't Bernie's family have an island account too??

He doesn't walk the walk.

[Jarqui]

37. For one, this stuff is in his wife's name - Sanders doesn't own it

http://pfds.opensecrets.org/N00000528_2014.pdf

So this asshole is going after Bernie for retirement stuff his wife got as an educator. Bernie has to declare their existence but they don't belong to him - they're not jointly held.

Another is Bernie and Jane don't have six figures to throw at Sidney Blumenthals and David Brocks to do the grunt work on this. They have to do it themselves. And lately, I think they've been pretty busy.

Thirdly, here's an example of Jane's investment:
Valic Div Value Fund $1,001 to $15,000
https://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/assets.php?year=2014&cid=N00000528

This is what he tries to associate with Jane Sanders:


Now he was concerned about Jane's investment in this "Big Oil" Exxon oil company which is 2.91% of this fund. So if Jane has the low end of $1,001 dollars, Jane has maybe has little as $29.13 invested in "Big Oil" here or as high as $436.50.

That is something like 1/3 of a second to 6.2 seconds of one Hillary speech to Big Oil!!! (Hillary makes about $69.44 per second at those speeches)

WOW. Call the FBI!! We're worried about as little as $29.13 invested in "Big Oil" - that might not even fill their car's gas tank.


You want to know what is really sad? Hillary employs buffoons who think like this and she'll bring them with her to the White House. That bothers me a lot more than Jane's retirement fund because Jane's retirement fund won't be running the country but Hillary's clowns will. Chilling to think about, isn't it.

[Sancho]

42. My wife and I are both educators...and we started moving retirement years ago...

for purely progressive and moral reasons.

It's not hard to roll over to another company, choose different funds, etc. At their age, they have complete freedom to move retirement. Even educator funds like Valic and TIAA and others have options. Since Bernie's wife is paid and on the campaign trail, it would be smart to look at the place your money is invested.

Simply put, they didn't have the desire to examine their retirement fund and make a value-driven decision. Otherwise, Brock would not be able to find the investments that he found.

[senz]

14. If you think you can deflect from your candidate's load of shit

with this ass-fooolery, then you're full of it.

[Lizzie Poppet]

15. You've become a (bad) caricature.

I assume you're just trolling, and aren't actually enough of an idiot to think that Bernie has ever advocated for eliminating Wall Street or discouraging investment. I've learned to expect disingenuousness from Camp Weathervane (like candidate, like supporter...), but I usually reserve the judgement of stupidity for Republicans.

[LexVegas]

17. What a hypocrite and a complete lack of integrity . nt

[polly7]

20. I'd love to see a complete breakdown of the Clinton Foundation's financial interests

including any emails or records dealing with the ten million received from Saudi Arabia, (and from all other nations with human rights abuse records) and the weapons deals made - those weapons they're currently using to commit war crimes in Yemen.

And everything in them involving Haiti. Yep .... especially Haiti.

[grntuscarora]

21. Social Responsibility Fund, Social Awareness Fund, Social Choice Account...?

My god, these sound horrible.

You're working hard on Point 3 of the 10 Point Plan, I see.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-abramson/the-democrats-10-point-plan-lose-election_b_9605608.html

[sadoldgirl]

23. Another Brock post. Okay.

[felix_numinous]

24. This is a false equivalency of the highest order

HRC's corruption and her refusal to reveal her own records and speech transcripts, cannot compare with Bernie Sanders record.

Instead of answering all the questions asked of her she sends out her rabid dog Brock who has a knack for going after innocent people like Anita Hill.

[imagine2015]

27. So your point seems to be that Wall Street is paying Bernie off for a lot less money than Hillary!

And he's not representing their interests like Hillary is!

Nonsense.

Bernie and Jane make a little money from investments. So do millions of ordinary working people. Bernie and Jane3 make far less in total dividends and interest from their accounts in a full year than Hillary receives from a single Wall Street "speech" payoff!

[immoderate]

29. Surrender Bernie!!

--imm

[Autumn]

31. Wait a minute... is Marcus Johnson the idiot who penned this screed

a non de plume for David 'Anita Hill is a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty' Brock ? I swear it smells just the same.

[Lucinda]

34. :)

[Dem2]

35. When it comes to mutual fund investing

I'd say 95% of those who can afford to put money into one haven't the slightest idea what the breakdown of investments in that fund is.

I'm certainly not going to criticize Bernie for participating in the system as it's constructed today.

[jmg257]

36. Pssst - Bernie - no we don't! You keep workign on that retirement fund! nt

And Clinton feels sorry for Bernie supporters???

[PowerToThePeople]

38. Total fail

[mhatrw]

39. swiftboat much?

[cherokeeprogressive]

40. YES. I think you should start a petition. Get back to us when you have!

[yodermon]

41. Please proceed!!

let us delve into the scandal that is holding broad based mutual funds for retirement.
Fetch me my fainting couch and pass me my smelling salts. It is too much.