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Old 10-02-2011, 12:43 PM
 
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I guess you are just not voting then.
Ron Paul has taken the least from the big banks. He has the most individual donations as a percentage. So if Paul gets the nomination I may vote for him.
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Old 10-02-2011, 10:07 PM
 
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Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan has been having meetings with Romney too. Someone from Bank of America walked right up to Rick Perry and told him that they will help him out. Bunch of empty suits including Obama.


Banker to Rick Perry - "I'm from Bank of America and we'll help you out" - YouTube
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Old 10-02-2011, 11:34 PM
 
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I can't believe how naive some of you are. Who do you think is contributing all of these milions of dollars to these candidates. I guess you thought it was the $25.00 donations that just really added up...lol.

I just hope Romney or Perry or whoever the banks are meeting with can convince them to start loaning some money again and get this country moving economically. I don't think some of you realize that banks are not loaning money right now, which means builders aren't building houses that people can't buy. Until that starts happening again, the economy stays in the toilet. Small businesses have no operating credit right now either, which is why they can't hire anyone. Don't any of you understand that the meetings with the banks might have something to do with all of this also. Whoever gets the nomination, if they win the election, has a monumental task of the economy to deal with. I doubt they want to live down to their predecessor's record of doing nothing but making it worse.
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Old 10-02-2011, 11:35 PM
 
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Ron Paul has taken the least from the big banks. He has the most individual donations as a percentage. So if Paul gets the nomination I may vote for him.
What chance do you really believe Ron Paul has of getting the nomination?
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Old 10-02-2011, 11:41 PM
 
Location: The High Seas
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Romney gave them a toaster and they called it even.
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Old 10-03-2011, 05:32 AM
 
Location: Chicagoland
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Looks like Goldman Sachs is the biggest campaign contributer to Romney's campaign. The biggest industry for his campaign is Finance and Securities.

Just another shill for the banksters. Sorry, can't vote for this dude. Before someone points out that Obama is in the same boat, we already know that...thus the big bank bail out.

Top Contributors to Mitt Romney | OpenSecrets
Didn't seem to bother you when obama was getting oodles of cash from the same characters.

Don't even try to pretend you would vote for Romney anyway...OR that you would NOT vote for obama regardless of whether he was racking in the cash from the same entities.
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Old 10-03-2011, 05:40 AM
 
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Looks like Goldman Sachs is the biggest campaign contributer to Romney's campaign. The biggest industry for his campaign is Finance and Securities.

Just another shill for the banksters. Sorry, can't vote for this dude. Before someone points out that Obama is in the same boat, we already know that...thus the big bank bail out.

Top Contributors to Mitt Romney | OpenSecrets
It makes sense since most of the obama contributors from GS are employed by the White House now.
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Old 10-03-2011, 07:12 AM
 
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Didn't seem to bother you when obama was getting oodles of cash from the same characters.

Don't even try to pretend you would vote for Romney anyway...OR that you would NOT vote for obama regardless of whether he was racking in the cash from the same entities.
Sure it did and does. You need to take your blinders off and realize there is not a one size fits all liberal.

There are a lot of liberals that would vote for Paul. I can't think of any that would vote for Romney including myself
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Old 10-03-2011, 07:21 AM
 
Location: KCMO, returning to Indy in 2012!
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I can't believe how naive some of you are. Who do you think is contributing all of these milions of dollars to these candidates. I guess you thought it was the $25.00 donations that just really added up...lol.

I just hope Romney or Perry or whoever the banks are meeting with can convince them to start loaning some money again and get this country moving economically. I don't think some of you realize that banks are not loaning money right now, which means builders aren't building houses that people can't buy. Until that starts happening again, the economy stays in the toilet. Small businesses have no operating credit right now either, which is why they can't hire anyone. Don't any of you understand that the meetings with the banks might have something to do with all of this also. Whoever gets the nomination, if they win the election, has a monumental task of the economy to deal with. I doubt they want to live down to their predecessor's record of doing nothing but making it worse.
The solution to our economic woes is NOT to get the banks loaning again so people can pile on more personal debt. But then again I would't expect a realtor to say anything else.

We don't need to be building any more houses, period.

The solution? The people in this country AND our government need to learn to live within their means and live without debt.
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Old 10-03-2011, 07:42 AM
 
Location: On the "Left Coast", somewhere in "the Land of Fruits & Nuts"
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The solution to our economic woes is NOT to get the banks loaning again so people can pile on more personal debt. But then again I would't expect a realtor to say anything else.

We don't need to be building any more houses, period.

The solution? The people in this country AND our government need to learn to live within their means and live without debt.
"Hey, of course you can afford this house! No problem, we'll just get you one of these nifty "stated-income loans"!!
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