May 21, 2012
I'm an American underwater in debt and with a stagnant income. Which group should I support: the Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street?
James Cook Like most political debates, it all comes back to special interests. There has to be some way to get lobbyists out of Washington and corporate money out of elections, but I'm afraid that is mainly a pipe dream.
James Cook LD, that's what I'm looking for. Thank you. Any suggestions on how to accomplish that?
James Cook Too many people are OK with hedge fund managers gambling away other people's money because they were told/allowed to. It's a modern twist on the old Nazi soldier defense. And please don't take that the wrong way. I'm not calling a...
James Cook No, I'm saying they want either less regulation or regulation that they know they can easily skirt. And they certainly are happy with bailouts. What do you suggest as a fix? It sounds like you don't think much is broken with Wall Street an...
James Cook First off, there's no such thing as "zero risk" in Wall Street. I'm not buying it. These companies do what they did that ended up ruining the economy because there are no consequences for them. Nobody of any consequence has been ...
James Cook What is currently going on in Wall Street is not true capitalism. In capitalism, businesses that are run into the ground are allowed to fail. Bailouts are corporate welfare, pure and simple. AIG, Lehmann Bros. and all those crooks should have been a...
James Cook There need to be consequences for doing the sort of things that crashed our economy, and currently there aren't. My suggestion would be to quit coddling these hedge fund managers and CEOs who knew exactly how risky the things there were doing we...
James Cook "The finance industry is one of the most heavily regulated industries in America." Apparently not enough.
James Cook In seriousness, OWS deals with the issue better than the Tea Party in my opinion. The Tea Party seeks deregulation, which is a major contributing factor in the housing market meltdown that sparked our current recession. Nobody was looking over the ba...
James Cook Where in the fine print is humor outlawed here? Jeez, folks. Lighten up a little.
James Cook I'm not racist enough and I spell too well to be in the Tea Party. So, OWS it is!
I'm an American underwater in debt and with a stagnant income. Which group should I support: the Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street?
James Cook Like most political debates, it all comes back to special interests. There has to be some way to get lobbyists out of Washington and corporate money out of elections, but I'm afraid that is mainly a pipe dream.