In an extended exchange during Wednesday’s Democratic presidential debate about the financial industry’s influence in Washington, Bernie Sanders brought out that the head of Goldman Sachs had called the Vermont senator “dangerous.”
“He’s right. I am dangerous for Wall Street,” Sanders said.
The back-and-forth started when Hillary Clinton was asked about making public the speeches she delivered in front of the financial industry, for which she was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Clinton argued her record shows she has taken on Wall Street, as well as other special interests. She also brought up an ad aired by a group affiliated with the billionaire Koch brothers in support of Sanders. The ad was about the Export-Import bank, which Sanders and the Kochs both oppose.
“There is nobody in the United States Congress who has taken on the Koch brothers — who want to destroy Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and virtually every federal program passed since the 1930s — more than Bernie Sanders,” Sanders said.
I think politicians on both sides (with some exceptions) underestimate the deep well of resentment that’s out there against Wall Street and others who trampled our economy, but were never served justice.
It took nine years to bring justice to Bin Laden. Wall Street is due.
What? A presidential candidate from the supposedly leftwing party attacking Wall Street? Huzzah! and may Hillary learn from his example, or she’s gonna get thumped in 2020. Or maybe just 2016.
Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street.
If the Sanders campaign is going to be such a Johnny One Note he should at least talk about the integration of Wall Street in people lives. Their mortgages, investments, 401ks, IRAs, and pension funds. It’s not some binary issue where everyone but Bernie is just to venal to see it as he claims to see it.
I’m really over him, and he is making me really want to see Hillary finish this thing up.
He is going to personally direct the DOJ to attack wall street, and then get impeached for directing the DOJ to attack wall street. What a plan!
Well dangerous in terms of crashing the economy not dangerous in terms of arresting people.