Obama to net $400K for Wall Street speech

[ttystikk]

a term paper is not a statute.

If your position is that no laws were broken leading up to the 2008 crash, I'd say you're badly mistaken.

 

[UncleBuck]

If your position is that no laws were broken leading up to the 2008 crash, I'd say you're badly mistaken.

if so many laws were broken so blatantly, then it should be a simple matter to point to those laws.

remember, everything hitler did was legal in germany.

 

[Padawanbater2]

I just told you fraud was committed

"Most of the largest mortgage originators and mortgage-backed securities issuers and underwriters have been implicated in regulatory settlements, and many have paid multibillion-dollar penalties."

Fraud is illegal

 

[UncleBuck]

I just told you fraud was committed

"Most of the largest mortgage originators and mortgage-backed securities issuers and underwriters have been implicated in regulatory settlements, and many have paid multibillion-dollar penalties."

Fraud is illegal

then it should be super simple to cite the specific law they broke.

 

[ttystikk]

then it should be super simple to cite the specific law they broke.

Paying millions in fines is an admission laws were broken.

If you want to see the exact statutes you're more than welcome to do your own research.

 

[UncleBuck]

If you want to see the exact statutes you're more than welcome to do your own research.

kinda sounding like a righty now, refusing to back up your claims and demanding that i do it for ya.

 

[esh dov ets]

Former President Obama has agreed to speak at a Wall Street conference for $400,000, according to a new report.

Obama’s remarks came just days before his successor reaches his 100th day in office.

Link to article

every former president does this. are you mad at obama for this?
he will be active in politics now in this way.

 

[ttystikk]

kinda sounding like a righty now, refusing to back up your claims and demanding that i do it for ya.

If their payments of millions in fines isn't enough evidence, I doubt citing statues would serve.

This is a specious argument and you know it.

 

[schuylaar]

good luck winning elections by some metric other than votes.

That includes LACK of votes.

 

[ttystikk]

That includes LACK of votes.

Remember, @UncleBuck is fine with letting people go hungry while the rich get richer. That's not a priority for him, because he'd rather talk about social issues. He's a classic neoliberal, and he's got his.

 

[dagwood45431]

Absolutely. Many other countries are waking up to the corruption in their governments and are doing plenty about it.

South Korea has put its Prime Minister in jail and on trial.

About fucking time for some of that kind of Justice right here in the good ol' USA.

Iceland was one of the places Moore "invaded" in Where to Invade Next. He talked to the prosecutors and other officials about the crimes and punishment dolled out. The punchline was that they modeled the prosecution after an earlier similar case in the US (I forget what the case was). So, Iceland learned how to do it from us but since then, we've lost our way with it. That was the same punchline in every country he invaded. It was fascinating while heartbreaking.

 

[ttystikk]

Iceland was one of the places Moore "invaded" in Where to Invade Next. He talked to the prosecutors and other officials about the crimes and punishment dolled out. The punchline was that they modeled the prosecution after an earlier similar case in the US (I forget what the case was). So, Iceland learned how to do it from us but since then, we've lost our way with it. That was the same punchline in every country he invaded. It was fascinating while heartbreaking.

I'm hoping Churchill was right (this quote has since been attributed to 'not him');
'America can be trusted to do the right thing- after all other alternatives have been tried and exhausted'

 

[ttystikk]

A critical look at Obama and his legacy of pragmatism vs audacity;

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/02/obama-a-hollow-man-filled-with-ruling-class-ideas/