2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Holes in Clinton's climate plan: no stand on Keystone, fracking, oil exports & Arctic ocean drilling [View all]GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)General Electric, Citibank, Exxon Mobil, and Goldman Sachs as they permanently destroy our drinking water, air, and food supply, and as we simultaneously cut education, nutrition programs, and don't lift a goddammed finger to implement a decent child care system.
Notice that none of those very important accomplishments erroded the President's billionaire friends' profits. Meanwhile he gives the nod to drill baby drill, even though it is clear that they are just as unprepared to prevent an oil disaster as they were before the Gulf disaster.
And keeping with his rock solid theme of shoveling taxpayer money into his Wall Street friends' pockets, all of the bank bailout money went to the banks and none of it went to the under water mortgage holders or the small businesses that were supposedly the hardest hit by the tight credit markets.
The bailout was a grand finale ruse by the Bush administration to loot the treasury one more time before the Democrats got a hold of the purse strings, and Barack Obama could have imposed some limits on how the money was to be used. But instead they used it for bonuses and to buy other banks, making the problem worse. Meanwhile the underwater homeowners get no help while tens of billions of dollars of bonuses are given to the banksters who caused the mess due to their selfish and irresponsible behavior.