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Brutus
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Brutus asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 10 years ago

Can anyone name someone who thinks Wall Street is the victim?

Can anyone point out someone who has said Wall Street is a victim of the financial crisis and the American people are the perps?

Is this what conservatives are saying when they disagree with the Wall Street protestors? Or is it more likely that conservatives just believe that the lawmakers are the primary perpetrators of the financial crisis and the ones who should be protested?

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  • R J
    Lv 7
    10 years ago
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    Well you can take from this what you like my friend but the lobbyists hae been giving the hOuse adn Senate members about $3.5 Billion a year, se the must fell sorry for them.. When you see McCain ($478 million) and Kerry (378 million) who lifetime have taken in almost a billion you know they must feel for them. iNteresting Hillary was a senator for a short while and took in a whopping $328 million, pay back is heck.

    It is just sad that like with the body scanners two weeks before they awarded the contracts the TSA got order to attack the passengers so they would use them. The two companies that got the contracts had spread $6 million around so guess it went to the committee members.

    All told you have the lobbyists and Congress who must think they are a victim. Ironic but Reids kids worked to lobbyists, his son in laws and joe Biden's son has his own firm, couple them with mcCain and Kerry adn you can see why they think the tea Party is a terror.

    Those guys may be right up there, but really need to go to the government also as they run the regulations and granted the corporations by virtue of paying everyone off with cash are a root also.

    $3.5 billion a year

    http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/

    Not pointing out Hillary but look at the financial corps that handed her cash and they all do it.

    http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php...

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Interesting that a Gallup poll published in the USA Today noted that something like 64% blamed Washington for the current fiscal crisis, with 30% pointing at Wall Street. Most individuals appear aware of who writes the banking and financial regulations.

    The spread-the-wealth around protesters are a total hoot. One individual was screaming about the theft of a five-thousand dollar laptop. Evidently forgetting that the spread-the-wealth mentality requires that those who don't have take from those who do. Instead of demanding justice, the former laptop owner should have noted that the protests were evidently working.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I don't know...

    I've read conservative question after conservative question stating something to the tune of "what are these wall street protesters talking about, what did wall street do to you?"

    which seems to imply that wall street didn't do anything wrong...

    beyond that, these same cons also constantly do ask the same question that you just asked "why don't they protest in Washington, since they are the ones at fault?"

    so, if Wall street didn't do anything wrong, as cons clearly don't know what they did do wrong, thus the question, and if Washington is a "primary perpetrator"...then it appears that wall street is a victim... judging by the questions asked on here...

    EDIT: just curious, what do you think the odds are that Washington is 100 percent at fault? congressmen are paid BILLIONS by wall street? do you think they don't get anything for it?

  • 10 years ago

    Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.)

    “The fact is these people are anarchists. They have no idea what they’re doing out there,” King said. “They have no sense of purpose other than a basically anti-American tone and anti-capitalist. It’s a ragtag mob basically.”

    Herman Cain (leading GOP presidential candidate)

    GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain reiterated his criticism of the Occupy Wall Street protesters Friday, saying the groups are “anti-capitalism” and “anti-free market.”

    “They are not working on the right problem,” Cain said at a conservative convention in Washington. “Wall Street didn’t write those failed policies. Wall Street didn’t spend a trillion dollars. You can demonstrate all you want on Wall Street, the problem is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”

    Representative Bachus (Financial Service Chair)

    “Occupy Wall Street is ‘Misdirected’.

    Representative Broun (Tea Party GOP Georgia)

    “They don’t know why they’re there. They’re just mad,” Broun told us. “This attack upon business, attack upon industry, attack upon freedom – and I think that’s what this is all about.”

    House Majority Leader Cantor

    “This administration’s failed policies have resulted in an assault on many of our nation’s bedrock principles,” he said. “If you read the newspapers today, I, for one, am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying Wall Street and the other cities across the country. And believe it or not, some in this town, have actually condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans. But you sent us here to fight for you and all Americans.”

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    Wall Street.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    They are the victims. They fell on such hard times that they had to ask the government for money. Those poor guys. They made some bad decisions but who hasn't? Why are people so against corporate welfare? I mean... we have welfare for the poor so why not for the rich? I think that is discriminatory. My heart goes out to all those on Wall Street. God bless them and God bless America.

    Source(s): Typical NEOCON argument.
  • 10 years ago

    George Soros .

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    No, no one can.

    Because nobody thinks Wall Street is the victim.

    Source(s): ‡ Racist leftists lie.
  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    If you have voted for liberals, you are the perp.

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