It was always going to take a special kind of leader to pick up Ted Kennedy’s mantle as senior Senator from Massachusetts—champion of working families and scourge of special interests. Elizabeth Warren never lets us forget that the work of taming Wall Street’s irresponsible risk taking and reforming our financial system is far from finished. And she never hesitates to hold powerful people’s feet to the fire: bankers, lobbyists, senior government officials and, yes, even presidential aspirants.
Elizabeth Warren’s journey from janitor’s daughter to Harvard professor to public watchdog to U.S. Senator has been driven by an unflagging determination to level the playing field for hardworking American families like the one she grew up with in Oklahoma. She fights so hard for others to share in the American Dream because she lived it herself.
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Elizabeth Warren never lets us forget that the work of taming Wall Street’s irresponsible risk taking and reforming our financial system is far from finished.
Writing about Warren in a national magazine, heaping platitudes on her, is simply not enough from Hillary Clinton to get my vote. But Clinton's own words, are where the keys to my vote can be found.
Clinton writes that Warren never lets us forget that the work of taming Wall Street is far from finished. So, my questions to Clinton are the following:
What are the steps you feel are far from finished in terms of taming Wall Street?
What type of regulatory reforms would you propose as president to prevent the 2008 economic meltdown of our banking system from ever happening again because Wall Street is doing it all again, including your bud Jamie Diamond at Chase.
Do you agree with Senator Warren that Citigroup and other "too big to fail" banks should be broken up? If so, when? Will this be something do start working on "from day one?"
Will you use the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission in a future Clinton administration to prevent Wall Street from committing wrongdoing and getting their record clear by “paying a fine,” which is basically a slap on the wrist? Have you noticed that fines against financial institutions are not stop them from trying to destroy our economy?
How will you regulate the financial institutions from implementing new ways to trick their customers through credit cards, mortgages, home equity lines of credit, and a whole bunch of new "new financial products,” like mortgage pools that were, as Senator Warren said, “boxes full of grenades with the pins already pulled out.”
Enough of all of the platitudes about Senator Warren and using my relationship with her to get my vote. Stop talking about her, and start telling me specifically what you are going to do to combat income inequality, battle Wall Street, etc.
I'll be honest with you Hillary, I just don't trust you on the types of regulatory issues. In my bones, I feel you are going to be as non-specific as possible on all of these issues, in the primary and once the nomination is over, and if you are the nominee, you are going right back on the side of Wall Street, and all of this talk about helping the middle class will fall off your radar as buckets of money get delivered to your campaign office from Wall Street.
Talk to us - openly and honestly about the issues so many have tried to address to you because for those of us who believe these issues are important, we are not hearing anything that comes close to how you want to address Wall Street and income inequality.
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