Wall Street paid out $18 billion in year-end bonuses last year [2008] to its New York City employees, after the government disbursed $243 billion in emergency assistance to the financial sector.Mr. Johnson's article is now over seven years old but it is still instructive on the unhealthy power of the financial sector in the U.S.
"The Quiet Coup." By Simon Johnson, The Atlantic, 5/09.
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Yet when you point out HRC was/is beholden to Wall St you're a misogynist. Hm. Darn facts.
The leftist interpretation of reality, their true goals, and the necessary implications of all that they do are such that require obfuscation and swift punishment for those thinkers who dissent from them.
An end to representative government, to free markets, and to white civilization are what the progressives are after and anyone who points this out must be subject to character assassination and personal destruction.
It's important for patriots simply to not engage when the charges of racism, bigotry, xenophobia, etc. start to fly. Ben Shapiro had a great defense against this. He said if you (opponent) want to accuse me of racism and I then have to spend the rest of the interview proving that I'm not a racist, well then, we're not going to have that conversation. But if you want to talk about substance . . . .
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