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Old 01-09-2013, 03:00 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Are you smarter than a fifth grader? Well your signature isn't inspiring confidence. LOL
You do know that isn't my signature, and if you base intelligence on signatures then you must not trust most smart people that have horrible handwriting.
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Old 01-09-2013, 03:04 PM
 
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Looks like the clear choice. Big plus, he is way too knowledgeable for the Congressional Repubs.

Five facts you need to know about Jack Lew
Come on, if he were the repub nominee you'd be screaming bloody murder about him being another corporate crony and his citigroup ties.
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Old 01-09-2013, 03:05 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Come on, if he were the repub nominee you'd be screaming bloody murder about him being another corporate crony and his citigroup ties.
He's a Dem corporate crony with his Citigroup ties so it's all well and good.
He'll be working "for the people".
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Old 01-10-2013, 08:33 AM
 
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He's a Dem corporate crony with his Citigroup ties so it's all well and good.
He'll be working "for the people".
Pretty much. Just like all the wall street and Goldman Sachs guys flowed in after 2008 where they were going to fight the fat cats and bankers that "caused all the problems".

Anybody believing the republicans aren't pork loving spenders and the democrats aren't corporate cronies is a big sad party loyalist sucker.
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Old 01-10-2013, 08:35 AM
 
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Boy that revolving door between the fed guv and private sector cronies must be ready to come off its hinges
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Old 01-10-2013, 08:38 AM
 
Location: Barrington
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And he has an awesome signature that belongs on money.
Someone was on the news this A.M. demanding that he change his signature to make it " more transparent".
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Old 01-10-2013, 08:43 AM
 
Location: Barrington
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n 2008, during a short leave from politics, Jack Lew was working at Citigroup as chief operating officer of the Alternative Investments unit, a $54 billion hedge fund and private equity operation that made some big bets against the housing market. Lew’s defenders argue that as COO, his role was primarily administrative, and he didn’t make decisions about where or what to trade. The AI unit is the precise sort of operation that the Volcker rule should, if properly implemented, render illegal.

COOs support "the desk" and don't call the trading strategies.
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Old 01-10-2013, 08:54 AM
 
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Looks like the clear choice. Big plus, he is way too knowledgeable for the Congressional Repubs.

Five facts you need to know about Jack Lew
Knowledgeable? Maybe. Corrupt? You betcha. I guess it's OK that he got a million dollar bonus after our taxpayer dollars bailed out Citibank. Aren't you lefties outraged because of that very thing, with regards to anyone but him?

Not that you'll find that information floating around anywhere. It's been conveniently whitewashed off of websites about the man.
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Old 01-10-2013, 08:57 AM
 
Location: Barrington
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Boy that revolving door between the fed guv and private sector cronies must be ready to come off its hinges
As opposed to the permanent non-partisan Washington class that flits between the private sector, lobbying and public service?
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Old 01-10-2013, 09:14 AM
 
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Knowledgeable? Maybe. Corrupt? You betcha. I guess it's OK that he got a million dollar bonus after our taxpayer dollars bailed out Citibank. Aren't you lefties outraged because of that very thing, with regards to anyone but him?

Not that you'll find that information floating around anywhere. It's been conveniently whitewashed off of websites about the man.
Kinda like how moveon.org removed their scathing indictment of General Petreus from their website (that had been up for years) the day after obama made him head of the CIA?
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