Romney?s Raised More Than Five Times As Much Money From Wall St. Employees As Obama
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 17th, 2011 4:36 am by HL
Romney?s Raised More Than Five Times As Much Money From Wall St. Employees As Obama
According to a New York Times analysis of campaign donation data, 2012 GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney has raised more than five times as much money from the employees of major Wall Street firms as President Obama. The Times found that “Mr. Romney has raised $1.5 million from employees of firms like Morgan Stanley; Highbridge Capital […]
According to a New York Times analysis of campaign donation data, 2012 GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney has raised more than five times as much money from the employees of major Wall Street firms as President Obama. The Times found that “Mr. Romney has raised $1.5 million from employees of firms like Morgan Stanley; Highbridge Capital Management, a hedge fund; and Blackstone, a private equity firm. Mr. Obama has raised just over $270,000 from firms that were among his leading sources of campaign cash in 2008.” Goldman Sachs employees have given Romney $350,000, compared to $45,000 they’ve given to Obama.
Occupy Wall Street Humor: Great Cartoon Plus The Onion
This hilarious cartoon is making the rounds: “I am the 1%. Smithers, release the hounds.” And The Onion has a great short piece on Occupy Wall Street, “Nation Waiting For Protesters To Clearly Articulate Demands Before Ignoring Them”: NEW YORK—As the Occupy Wall Street protest expands and grows into a nationwide movement, Americans are eagerly […]
This hilarious cartoon is making the rounds:
“I am the 1%. Smithers, release the hounds.”
And The Onion has a great short piece on Occupy Wall Street, “Nation Waiting For Protesters To Clearly Articulate Demands Before Ignoring Them”:
NEW YORK—As the Occupy Wall Street protest expands and grows into a nationwide movement, Americans are eagerly awaiting a list of demands from the group so they can then systematically disregard them and continue going about their business, polls showed this week.
“The protesters need to unify around a shared agenda with precise policy goals so I can begin paying no attention to them whatsoever,” said Tulsa, OK poll respondent Kaye Petrachonis, echoing the thoughts of millions across the country. “If they don’t have a clear power structure organized around specific demands first, then I’ll never be able to completely tune them out due to a political conflict of interest or an inability to comprehend complex, detailed economic concepts. These people really need to get their act together.”
Once Occupy Wall Street has a concrete set of objectives in place, the majority of Americans said they would go back to waiting for the sluggish economy to recover while blindly accepting things the way they are.
D’oh!
