By now, you probably know the travesty that is the $1.1 trillion "cromnibus" bill that just passed the House and Senate, thanks to the Democrats who have all but surrendered to Wall Street and other Big Business interests ... Republicans, too, but that's to be expected.
Elizabeth Warren may have gotten the headlines about the sell out to Wall Street this bill was, but Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, not surprisingly, also was not happy ... not one bit.
He also voted against this legislation, in particular because of the cuts to pensions and the bailout provisions that Wall Street itself wrote into the bill and then whipped support for via phone calls from Jamie Dimon ... just wow - they write the legislation and whip the Congress for the votes.
Who needs "legislators" when the "whiz kids" on Wall Street are a full service operation - from commercial banking to investment banking to retail banking and political consulting to boot, they are a one-stop pocket lining shop, and they just put you and I back on the hook for when they screw it all up again. When the house of cards comes tumbling down, we have just been assigned the "patriotic" duty of bailing out Wall Street once again.
Thanks Democrats.
Well here is hoping Bernie Sanders decides he indeed will be running in the Democratic presidential primary for 2016, and if he does, you can be sure the Dem primary will be broadcasting his message into every living room in America, calling out the Too Big to Fail Banks and all the other Big Money interests that are corrupting our political process.
Take a listen below to Sander's Senate speech about all that is atrocious with the crominbus - it's a nice preview of what to expect from a Sanders candidacy and I think you'll agree, it's the exact message this country needs to hear:
Break them up