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Huh? so if Elon Musk has a

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 07:54:45 +0000

In reply to You write: "Wall Street didn

Huh? so if Elon Musk has a bank account, Wells Fargo is responsible for the Hyperloop and any mishaps?

Yes, banks are where we store money. Nothing much to do with the Congo.

You write: "Wall Street didn

HSG — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 14:04:22 +0000

You write: "Wall Street didn't cause the war in Congo that killed >5 million or ISIS in Syria nor our invasion of Iraq."

I did not write that Wall Street caused the War in Congo or created ISIS. Regarding Congo, the Masters of the Universe helped grease the skids for that country's implosion.

Mobutu Sese Seko is perhaps more responsible for the current Congo crisis than anybody else. Before his death, he was "estimated to have stolen at least $5 billion from his country, much of it moved to international banks and investments." http://www.enoughproject.org/conflict_areas/eastern_congo/roots-crisis. In other words, the valuable resources of Congo were looted and banks profited directly from that looting - exactly what I wrote.

Regarding ISIS, the terrorist group arose from the ashes of Bush's Operation Iraqi Liberation. If you want to place most of the blame for ISIS on Bush, Cheney, the Senators, and members of Congress members and Senators who authorized the war, the Project for the New American Century, and oil companies rather than Wall Street banks, I won't argue.

First, they would only be

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 15:50:32 +0000

In reply to O-K - I was asked what it

First, they would only be used negatively - to see if she said "predator" or didn't chastise Wall Street hard enough.

Second, Wall Street didn't cause the war in Congo that killed >5 million or ISIS in Syria nor our invasion of Iraq, and this investment from Wall Street is why East Europe is clean and liveable as opposed to 25 years ago, and why Chinese average $14k per year with a high-tech development (and restrained childbirth), versus the poverty-infested feudalistic overbreeding backwards country making <$1k/year 35 years ago. Even Wall Street's backing arms production ignores that war isat an all-time low, that aside from Syria, there are very few people dying from war right now.Wall Street funds our internet boom and smartphone obsession and pharmaceutical experimentation and new energy production.

You overplay your hand. It's certainly not been all "looting and pillaging" in regions that know what it's like to be literally looted and pillaged.

O-K - I was asked what it

HSG — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 23:19:50 +0000

In reply to Honestly Hal, if Hillary did

O-K - I was asked what it would take for me to support her enthusiastically. I noted probably nothing. I also added five things that might help me be more enthusiastic. Yes the G-S speeches would go along way. By releasing them, Clinton would be saying I am for the 99% of the people who do not own, manage, or receive enormous salaries from the greedy bastards who have paid me millions while looting and pillaging the planet.

Yeah, Hal is Clinton's

Michael Maiello — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 22:10:29 +0000

In reply to Honestly Hal, if Hillary did

Yeah, Hal is Clinton's abusive voter.

Honestly Hal, if Hillary did

ocean-kat — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 19:48:39 +0000

In reply to I already noted Trump has

Honestly Hal, if Hillary did everything on your list would you really support her enthusiastically?

You still want to hurt her. Your demand that she release the Goldman Sachs speech transcripts is revealing. There was some rational behind Sanders making that demand even though it was indefensible for him to demand Hillary go above and beyond what is normal for presidential candidates when he would not even do the bare minimum, releasing his tax returns. Now that Hillary is the nominee that rational no longer applies.

Do you truly want Hillary to go beyond what is normal for presidential candidates when Trump, like Sanders, refuses to meet the minimum standard, releasing his tax returns? Do you truly want Hillary to give the republicans access to something that can at least be mined for out of context quotes that hurt her? Why would you want the democratic candidate to do something that could potentially hurt her chances against Trump?

edit to add: You know, Hal, if Sanders had transcripts of every speech he gave in Nicaragua I might have supported Hillary calling for him to release them if the election was close. But if Sanders won I would no longer call for him to release them for the republicans to search through.

I already noted Trump has

HSG — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 18:01:05 +0000

In reply to If you think Hillary hasn't

I already noted Trump has "earned" Clinton my vote. The question posed was what can be done to cause me to support Clinton enthusiastically. Since I believe, and have presented what I believe to be dispositive evidence, that she's not honest and has repeatedly acted counter to the best interests of poor, working, and middle-class Americans, it would be difficult for me to feel enthusiastic about her candidacy.

Even if the facts as I marshaled them haven't convinced you, you can understand my sentiments can't you Ramona? I mean you don't expect me to be excited to vote for a candidate about whom I feel as negatively as I do about Clinton do you?

By the way, you're absolutely wrong when you write Hillary "really doesn't owe" me anything. To the extent she's a public servant or is trying to become one, she owes me honesty. She owes me fealty to the rule of law. She owes me a commitment to try to fulfill her campaign promises.

Your candidate won. We'll find out soon enough if her supporters in the Democratic primary made a defensible choice. Picking Elizabeth Warren as her running mate would go a long way towards convincing me you did.

If you think Hillary hasn't

Ramona — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 14:50:44 +0000

In reply to Flavius you conclude your

If you think Hillary hasn't already earned your vote, there isn't much more she can do about that. She really doesn't owe you anything. You owe the country the chance to right what's wrong by making sure Donald Trump and the rest of the GOP lose their power to take over our lives.

Not being snarky, Bernie

Flavius — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:36:57 +0000

In reply to Let me be the ant

Not being snarky, Bernie should take a vacation.

For me, it was sad to see the

rmrd0000 — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:03:31 +0000

In reply to And practical for bathroom

For me, it was sad to see the joy of Hillary's victory with powerful endorsements by Obama with passionate speeches by Biden and Warren have to share space with Bernie's issues. I was charged by Obama, Warren, and Biden. I have to admit it was depressing to see Bernie giving the same old speech to the same crowd.