Please Please Please do so. I beg all American to do so.

It is a life altering experience…I promise you (and I’ve read dozens of history books in my time but none so ground breaking). It is thoroughly refernced and decently written.

It’s the last book in the world the MSM would advertise to you….for very good reason.

He spent (along with his wife, jew hating friends and AYERS) his whole life HATING this country and its people even more…..this is the opportunity he’s been praying to his dimented GOD for for decades…and you fools fell for it like pre-Hitler germans. You deserve him and all the evil he is about to wreak.

Bush may have been foolish but no one can doubt he loves his country and respects its folk….I’ll take that anyday over some Neo Marxist fanatic who disdains his country and who’s life long dream has been to see this country crash and burn in disgrace. You AAs think he cares for you….he dispises you even more than us whitey’s.

ENJOY THE GOULAGS you pro-Obama fools.
You guys will go first. As soon as you start protesting against your leader–not even to the extent that you did so freely with Bush–he will come down on you like a A-Bomb . All the 20th C socialist tyrants have always turned on their own first and most visciously…even when it was for the slightest or most valid thing.

ENJOY REAPING WHAT YOU SOW…I CERTAINLY WILL DO SO AS I WATCH (WITH A LITTLE GUILT, ALBEIT).

LESSON: the idiocy, ignorance, and fanaticism you have so emphatically displayed this election period never goes unpunished.

What in the hell more do you want us to do….depose OBAMA perhaps. Sure I’m in.

Give my life and loyalty to this Tyrrant-never I’ld rather kill myself! I hope he _____. He is the new Hitler/Stalin of our time.

He wants us to pony up ANOTHER $750 BILLION to save his cronies on Wall Street.

Paying for Policy in Washington
Wall Street’s Best Investment
By ROBERT WEISSMAN

“The entire financial sector (finance, insurance, real estate) drowned political candidates in campaign contributions, spending more than $1.7 billion in federal elections from 1998-2008. Primarily reflecting the balance of power over the decade, about 55 percent went to Republicans and 45 percent to Democrats. Democrats took just more than half of the financial sector’s 2008 election cycle contributions.

The industry spent even more — topping $3.4 billion — on officially registered lobbyists during the same period. This total certainly underestimates by a considerable amount what the industry spent to influence policymaking. U.S. reporting rules require that lobby firms and individual lobbyists disclose how much they have been paid for lobbying activity, but lobbying activity is defined to include direct contacts with key government officials, or work in preparation for meeting with key government officials. Public relations efforts and various kinds of indirect lobbying are not covered by the reporting rules.

During the decade-long period:

* Commercial banks spent more than $154 million on campaign contributions, while investing $383 million in officially registered lobbying;

* Accounting firms spent $81 million on campaign contributions and $122 million on lobbying;

* Insurance companies donated more than $220 million and spent more than $1.1 billion on lobbying; and

* Securities firms invested more than $512 million in campaign contributions, and an additional nearly $600 million in lobbying. Hedge funds, a subcategory of the securities industry, spent $34 million on campaign contributions (about half in the 2008 election cycle); and $20 million on lobbying. Private equity firms, also a subcategory of the securities industry, contributed $58 million to federal candidates and spent $43 million on lobbying.

Individual firms spent tens of millions of dollars each. During the decade-long period:

* Goldman Sachs spent more than $46 million on political influence buying;

* Merrill Lynch threw more than $68 million at politicians;

* Citigroup spent more than $108 million;

* Bank of America devoted more than $39 million;

* JPMorgan Chase invested more than $65 million; and

* Accounting giants Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG and Pricewaterhouse spent, respectively, $32 million, $37 million, $27 million and $55 million.

The number of people working to advance the financial sector’s political objectives is startling. In 2007, the financial sector employed a staggering 2,996 separate lobbyists to influence federal policy making, more than five for each Member of Congress. This figure only counts officially registered lobbyists. That means it does not count those who offered “strategic advice” or helped mount policy-related PR campaigns for financial sector companies. The figure counts those lobbying at the federal level; it does not take into account lobbyists at state houses across the country. To be clear, the 2,996 figure represents the number of separate individuals employed by the financial sector as lobbyists in 2007. We did not double count individuals who lobby for more than one company the total number of financial sector lobby hires in 2007 was a whopping 6,738.

A great many of those lobbyists entered and exited through the revolving door connecting the lobbying world with government. Surveying only 20 leading firms in the financial sector (none from the insurance industry or real estate), we found that 142 industry lobbyists during the period 19982008 had formerly worked as “covered officials” in the government. “Covered officials” are top officials in the executive branch (most political appointees, from members of the cabinet to directors of bureaus embedded in agencies), Members of Congress, and congressional staff.

Nothing evidences the revolving door — or Wall Street’s direct influence over policymaking — more than the stream of Goldman Sachs expatriates who left the Wall Street goliath, spun through the revolving door, and emerged to hold top regulatory positions. Topping the list, of course, are former Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Henry Paulson, both of whom had served as chair of Goldman Sachs before entering government. Goldman continues to be well represented in government, with among others, Gary Gensler, President Obama’s pick to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Mark Patterson, a former Goldman lobbyist now serving as chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

All of this awesome influence buying has enabled Wall Street to establish the framework for debates in Washington, and to obtain very specific deregulatory actions, with devastating consequences.”

Click below to find the full report with Executive Summary.

Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America

http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2009/03/weekend-reading-how-wall-street-and.html

http://www.wallstreetwatch.org/soldoutreport.htm

poor poor poor Bobo.

He needs his binky and his bwanky.

Mr. Keating as treasure and then as Prime Minister, became one of Australias most disliked Polies.

Did so much damage to Australia.

Revenger, foul mouthed, conceited and very elitest.

As a U.S. citiz ( with a dual citizenship here in Oz)

I always voted Democratic, was a lefty from way back (70 years old).

When Keating ran for Prime Minister for the Labor Party I voted for a Conservative candidate for the first time in my life.

I’m still a lefty and hope I never have to vote Conservative again.

Mr Keating thinks Americans are stupid.