On Mar 8, 10:24 am, "Maryam" <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you know which special interest gave more money to the Obama campaign than > any other? > Give up? Okay, here's the answer: Wall Street. > That's right. According to CNNMoney.com, Wall Street securities and > investment firms gave over $35 million to Democratic candidates this election > cycle. And the amount they gave to the Obama campaign was nearly five times > the amount they gave to McCain.
Wow, that almost equates into 1 CEO's end year bonus, and a mere fraction of the $18 billion in bonuses Wall Street gave themselves. > That's why betting their entire industry on "subprime" loans to people with > no jobs and no collateral made sense to them -- and why betting the entire > U.S. economy on the likes of Obama makes sense to them now. You need to read my post: "14 months before the meltdown". Wall Street is made up of more conservatives than liberals. The fact that some of them voted for Obama instead just means they were sick of the conservative charade. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
