Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Pete's BLOG-Day 26,483. Part 16 - U.S. corporate contributions in 2012 campaign

Today is Wednesday, May 22, 2013. My stats today: 10 minutes of yoga, 10 minutes lifting weights and 42 minutes of walking=2.3 miles for a May total of 45.5 miles. My weight was 162.2 pounds.

My THOUGHTS today are on Part 16 of corporate American dollar contributions to the 2012 presidential election. Today it is INVESTMENT HOUSES.

CORPORATION  -  $AMOUNT  -  TO WHICH PARTY
112. Goldman Sachs - $7,887,924 -  65% to GOP
113. Morgan Stanley - $3,729,163 - 69% to GOP
114. Bank of America - $4,624,122 - 70% to GOP
115. Wells Fargo        - $3,579,349  - 70% to GOP
116. Credit Suisse Group - $2,359,598 - 71% to GOP
117. Deutsche Bank        - $408,612  -  66% to GOP

These investment houses are the ones largely responsible for the financial collapse in 2007, 2008 and 2009. They were broke at that time and now look at them. It appears that the government bailout in 2008 must have worked when they can spend this amount of money trying to influence the election to get the Republicans back in power to screw us up all over again. Um, makes you wonder what the Supreme Court was thinking when they passed Citizens United in 2010 to allow unlimited corporate dollar contributions to our campaigns. In my opinion the future of American is in danger as a result of this Supreme Court decision.

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