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Tenpoundbass
2018 Mar 10, 6:01am
Tenpoundbass
2018 Mar 10, 6:01am
Companies have never been more free to openly and hostile fuck the shit out of you.
Just as long as they have a company policy written somewhere, it can even be on an Amazon cookie cutter template website somewhere.
It's not even important that you read it and understood that they vaguely make reference that they are crooked scumbags and the whole operation is a scam.
Dodd Franks was a rash of Chickenshit sole purpose was to clean up the mess Elizabeth Warren made exposing the toxic asset markets.
The did Dodd Frank promoted Lizzy to Indian and made her a Senator.
Not bad for a lying Lunatic cunt. She did good but it's time to put that pile of shit behind us, it was a joke from the start, and hasn't benefited anyone. But financial favorites that has the Establishment's blessing to rip people off, while pretending it stops others from getting their beak wet.
Just as long as they have a company policy written somewhere, it can even be on an Amazon cookie cutter template website somewhere.
It's not even important that you read it and understood that they vaguely make reference that they are crooked scumbags and the whole operation is a scam.
Dodd Franks was a rash of Chickenshit sole purpose was to clean up the mess Elizabeth Warren made exposing the toxic asset markets.
The did Dodd Frank promoted Lizzy to Indian and made her a Senator.
Not bad for a lying Lunatic cunt. She did good but it's time to put that pile of shit behind us, it was a joke from the start, and hasn't benefited anyone. But financial favorites that has the Establishment's blessing to rip people off, while pretending it stops others from getting their beak wet.
As depressing and predictable as it is to see Democrats yet again prostituting themselves to financiers, payback may finally be coming.
Senate: Poll: Five Senate Dems would lose to GOP challenger if elections held today” [The Hill]. “New polls published Thursday morning in Axios show Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) would all lose reelection to GOP challengers if voters were heading to the polls this week.” Blue Dogs all. Why vote for a fake Republican when you can vote for a real one?
So these Blue Dogs who are gutting the already underwhelming Dodd Frank may not be with us much longer, at least politically. And even though the party is remarkably insistent on adhering to a strategy of corporate toadying that has led it to hemorrhage seats at all levels of government, if these seats all go red, it might be a message even the Democrats might not be able to ignore.
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This act of regulatory vandalism highlights everything that is corrupt about our political system.
As if to maximize the possibility of another major financial crisis, the Trump administration and the GOP have recently been busy undercutting the limited safeguards established a decade ago via Dodd-Frank. The latest example of this stealth attack on Wall Street reform is the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, appropriately sponsored by Republican Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. Appropriate, because this is literally a “crapo” bill. It provides a few “technical tweaks” to Dodd-Frank in the same way in which protection payouts to organized crime provide businesses with “insurance” against property damage. In reality, it is an act of regulatory vandalism, which highlights everything that is corrupt about our political system.
We have grown to expect no less from the GOP, whose sole raison d’etre these days seems to be filling the trough from which America’s fat cats can perpetually gorge themselves. What is truly disturbing, however, is that the Republican effort is being given bipartisan cover by more than a dozen Democratic senators: Doug Jones (Ala.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Jon Tester (Mont.), Mark Warner and Tim Kaine (both from Va.), Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Gary Peters (Mich.), Michael Bennet (Colo.), Chris Coons (Del.), and Tom Carper of Delaware. To this esteemed group, we should also add Senator Angus King (ME), an Independent who regularly caucuses with the Democrats. So, in reality, it’s a filibuster-proof “Baker’s Dirty Dozen.” Digging into the details, perhaps this is what Senator Mitch McConnell had in mind when he predicted more bipartisanship in Congress this year. In co-sponsoring this bill, the 13 senators are providing cover for the GOP when the inevitable fallout comes, dissipating the Democrats’ political capital with the electorate in the process.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/03/meet-the-democrats-dirty-dozen-working-to-gut-financial-reforms.html