Follow the Money - Money in Government
About: Who is getting Money & Who is Giving Money in Politics
• Sweetness & Light: Frank: Goldman Case Proves Reform Need
• Washington Examiner: Goldman Sachs Will Be Sitting Pretty With Emanuel in the Obama White House
• Sweetness & Light: Rahm Emanuel's Ties To Goldman Sachs
• New York Post: Wall Street Suspects Goldman Charges 'Not Coincidental' to Financial Reform Effort
• LA Times: Goldman Sachs Case Could Help Obama Shift Voter Anger
• Investor's Business Daily: SEC Charges Fraud By Goldman Sachs In Mortgage Deal
• Wall Street Journal: The SEC vs. Goldman
• New York Times: Top Goldman Leaders Said to Have Overseen Mortgage Unit
• Wall Street Journal: Americans Are More Skeptical of Govt Than Ever - Andrew Kohut



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Obama's skill at raising money from small donors for the 2008 campaign was significant. But Obama was also skilled at raising money from large donors. His statement was, "the vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country." That's not the case. Only 32 percent of his general election money came from people who gave $200 or less. We rate his statement False.







"[The minority leader] paid a visit to Wall Street a week or two ago," he said, "and met with some of the movers and shakers up there. I don't know exactly what was discussed. All I can tell you is when he came back, he promptly announced he would oppose the financial-regulatory reform."
Mr. Obama's slashing personal attacks on his opponents, accusing them of cynicism for doing what he does, demonstrate the community activist at work. His constant running off to make another speech, together with his toxic vitriol aimed at his opponents, is the homage he pays to Saul Alinsky and the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., his Chicago tutors in how to demonize anyone who gets in the way of his scheme to remake America as it never was.

But it is hard to argue that Goldman's hedging made the crisis worse. Many, many other things take precedence over greed: government policies that encouraged shoddy lending and excessive consumer debt, lax monetary policy, ratings agencies that handed out AAA labels like dime store candy, regulators who were out to lunch or watching porn. If anything, a proliferation of shorts was the first sign that something had gone terribly wrong in the housing sector.
However, rather than accept that the crisis had many causes and many agents, Congress seems determined to pin the blame on a single investment bank. This is called scape-goating, and it's as American as apple pie. Shifting blame happens whenever Americans make a collective decision that they regret. In 2003, a bipartisan consensus about the dangers of Saddam Hussein, terrorists, and weapons of mass destruction drove the United States to invade Iraq and depose Saddam. But by 2007, when the Iraq war was at its bloodiest, you would've been forgiven for thinking that the only individuals who had supported military action were those dreaded neocons.


Access to the Obama White House is in direct correlation to the amount of money donated to the president's reelection effort and the Democratic party, the New York Times reports today.
The Times reports: "those who donated the most to Mr. Obama and the Democratic Party since he started running for president were far more likely to visit the White House than others. Among donors who gave $30,000 or less, about 20 percent visited the White House, according to a New York Times analysis that matched names in the visitor logs with donor records. But among those who donated $100,000 or more, the figure rises to about 75 percent. Approximately two-thirds of the president’s top fund-raisers in the 2008 campaign visited the White House at least once, some of them numerous times."
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774 – how Hillary became the candidate.
Then too there is all that money to the Clinton Foundation via Uranium One
Transparency is the key. Campaign Finance Reform was/is a joke! In politics law makers & law breakers will do what they do & let the people complain after they are firmly seated back in the swamp!
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