I concur- a low rent politician would not be able to do this, but a bankster billionaire would have absolutely no reason to overhaul, it would be entirely against that persons interest and the bank lobby's interest. (pardon the pun)

Now what would make me happy if Trump were to order the bankster billionaire cabinet members to overhaul - OR BE PROSECUTED FOR THE 2008 DEBACLE.

Also a ride in Bigfoots UFO would make me happy too......

the Obama Administration did 0 to curb this.
G Dubya's Administration did 0 to curb this
Bill Clinton's Admin did 0 to curb this, etc and so fourth we can go all the way back to Eisenhower probably.

Hillary's administration would have done nothing to curb this.


Now here we are, what do we really think will Trump do to curb this? He and his treasury and commerce cabinet cronies are, after all, bajillionaires. Does anyone really think it will be any different?

Warren Buffet ..wait no..Jimmy Buffet , yea.

Just kidding. I'm loathed to come up with a specific name, which does not support my argument ( and thank you for challenging me on that) but I'm sure that President elect Trump knows scores of such people.
..... but still, why insult the v**ers by carrying on the Goldman Sacs + Bear Sterns legacies in cabinet posts?

You are correct, my suppositions are based on fear, fear that we as taxpayers will again get stuck bailing out banks and being insulted while doing so.

Indeed a Treasury or Commerce cabinet post should be filled by one with extremely keen business acumen ( and by all means NOT a politician).
I'd expect that President elect Trump not fill this post with representatives or former executives of the "bail-out banks". I personally feel that filling cabinet posts with people associated with the 2008 bail out is a slap in the face to the working men and women of this country.
There are certainly sharp business leaders out there who would be repulsed by the thought of taxpayer money bailing out private institutions ( which kinda sounds like socialism!?) who are the kind of people I'd like Mr Trump to post to a cabinet position- to answer your question.

Most certainly conned, myself included. This is very much of a disappointment. With these Bankster types on his economic panel , the best case is that there will be 4 more years of the same destructive plutocratic economic policies. Worst case is that they intentionally crash the dollar to rid the middle class once and for all.

Trump is a businessman, so are the guys from Bear Sterns and Goldman Sacs. They know how to make deals, there will be deals made with each other for their benefit, not ours and especially not the benefit of those of us who v**ed for him, believing that he'd "drain the swamp".
Every cabinet member involved with banking,commerce or finance will leave Washington with far more wealth than when they arrived.
That wealth will come from our hard earned tax dollars. Remember 2008, this current financial mess was started by Goldman Sacs and Bear Sterns. They destroyed themselves while trying to screw over other banks and a corrupt-paid-for Administration looked the other way as it was happening. There is a lot of money to be made in economic disaster. Mr Trump and his bankster buddies know that.

Indeed the covers have been pulled back:
David Malpas and Steve Mnunchin will serve on the cabinet to protect the interests of Goldman Sacs and Bear Sterns, NOT the American middle class.

Is our collective memory so short that we've forgotten about 2008 bank bail out?
Goldman Sacs and Bear Sterns were some of the first to go under and then demand bail outs from the Taxpayers.


This is not Making America Great again, these cabinet posts are making Goldman Sacs and Bear Sterns extremely wealthy ( again).

Surely this is a typo- these certainly cannot be Mr Trumps se******ns - I'd bet the list of cabinet positions that started this topic are incorrect, they have to be.


If this is true it's another e******n, another promise broken ( and I'm not and never was Clinton supporter , BTW) , the swamp gets bigger.

I respect your opinion and share your optimism but in my opinion if we have Bear Sterns and Goldman Sacs former execs on the cabinet we'll be bailing those and other inscrutable institutions out within 3 years.
I did not v**e for Clinton due to her connections to the "2008 bail out banks" now President elect Trump appears to be putting these same institutions firmly in charge.
Wow. We've been had, I'm sorry to say. The American Middle class will be gone in 4 years. Guess it's time to wade into the swamp and forage for food.

Take a look at the Treasury Secretary se******n: a former executive of Goldman Sacs! WHAT?! Goldman Frikin' Sacs!?

Is Mr Trump serious?

Remember 2008- who was the bank that wrecked the world , wrecked their own industry , then turned to the tax payers to bail them out?? Yes indeed- Goldman Sacs.

This swamp is being filled with the same excrement that it had with the Dems in the last 8 years and the previous 4 administrations before that.Dem or Repub.

Seems that the banks win, again.

Nice try Mr Trump but I wish to retract my v**e.. We've been had yet again America.

appalling

AUDIT THE FED! Audit the s**t out of them!
that alone is enough to get my v**e.

The Federal Reserve is the #1 hindrance to economic growth in my opinion.
GO RAND, GO CRUZ!!!

...from a media and political perspective that is.

Could you imagine Watergate happening in this day and age?

Heh Heh Heh.....even Forbes OP-ED contributors are wearing the tin-foil hat.

Outstanding! Kudos to you Governor LePage.

Now if the same principle can somehow be applied to the Corporate Welfare l***hes, we'd be on a path to a country with ZERO ENTITLEMENTS GIVEN/ZERO ENTITLEMENTS EXPECTED.

Imagine what the budget would look like if every state followed suit?

Any good economist will tell you to diversify your portfolio for security.

Diversification of energy sources seems to be too much for our society to handle.



There seems to be a war within the energy industry that is fueling popular/political opinion.

We can derive energy from coal, oil, wind , the sun or geothermal. The BEST source of energy is from wh**ever source is cheapest and easiest for you or your municipality to acquire.

Now the oil guys will tell you that oil is the only possible energy source, the coal guys will tell you that coal is the only viable energy source.
Same for solar, same for geothermal.

This is an industry propaganda war. I'm not against oil, nukes or solar..it just seems that one energy consortium has more political power than another and can easily launch a media attack on the unsavory(e.g: NOT the energy company I own shares of, or NOT the energy company that writes my paycheck/funded my campaign) energy source.

If a really awesome, cheap, safe and clean energy source is invented or discovered tomorrow it WILL be attacked by the energy status quo.

It's not a conspiracy theory, it's not c*****e c****e, it's not right vs left..
its economics pure and simple.

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