by Dave in Denver:
"Leadership? What leadership? They're just figureheads. Look at the money behind them? It's just incredible to me that most people look at these politicians and they think that they're the people creating and implementing policy. They definitively are not. They are bought and paid for many times over by big corporate interests and wealthy individuals. The rest is nothing but a dog and pony show. The human version of the Westminster Dog Show.
Take a look at the people Obama has appointed for Secretary of Treasury and the SEC. You think for one second that if most of the people in this country bothered to look into their backgrounds and Wall Street track records and current Wall Street ties that they would vote for those two people if we could vote on appointments? No way in hell. Both Jacob Jack Lew and Mary Jo White are completely conflicted and heavily under the influence of Wall Street. ...
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Click over for the rest. I've tried to explain this to other friends of mine and they, like, Dave's colleage, just don't get it.