So I hear the Democratic Party "panders" to Wall Street!

[George II]

23. Sometime last year people here were harping on the origin of contributions to candidates...

...especially those from "Wall Street" and the banking industry.

I grew up in New York City, six siblings in the family.

My father worked for a bank, my older brother, myself, one of my younger brothers and my younger sister all worked for banks at one time or another in their working careers - that's five of eight of us. One also worked in the back room of a brokerage (i.e., not a stock broker)

None of us were upper management, two were in clerical positions, my father and I were in "data processing" (now IT), and my sister was a bank teller.

One guy in the discussion called us all "banksters"!!

My point is that for my family and many others in New York, its difficult to not work in one aspect of "banking" or another. Also, it's virtually impossible for any American to not have dealings with banks or the dreaded "Wall Street", unless one spends his/her entire life dealing only with cash and keeping savings under a mattress.

Most of us contributed at one time or another to Democratic candidates. That means we all would have been categorized in FEC filings as "Banking"!!

Now back to my original premise - I don't think there's a candidate in the country at any level who also has no dealings with "Wall Street" or the banking industry. In fact, since I've been a treasurer for several candidates over the years I know that, BY LAW, we were required to maintain a checking account. Guess where? AT A BANK!