Eliot Spitzer: We're Rushing Into a Plutocracy

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[127mcf]

we need a president that embraces eliot's philsophy of " I'm a fucking steamroller"

[PurpleHoneyBear]

I like Spitzer. Something tells me he's sincere.

[JanieHoffa]

This interviewer is the worst! Can hardly get a sentence going.

[samsbro1952]

@JanieHoffa He's an excellent, informed interviewer. Perhaps not CNN ready but do you want depth or superficial bullshit, Janie.

[twosquirrelly]

I still don't think it was a coincidence that Eliot was "outed" 6 months before the 2008 crash.

It kinda reminds me of how AlQueda assassinated the leader of the Northern Alliance just before 9-11.

When he resigned those Wall Street sociopaths celebrated.

If he was Gov. he would have gone after Goldman Sachs.

...pisses me off.

[brno22504]

the USA has been a plutocracy from the beginning; the constitution was written by rich white landowners and slave owners !

[donyunger]

Rushing into a plutocracy? The USA has been a plutocracy from the very beginning. Founded by the merchants for the merchants.

[MichaelConrad1D]

Valuable conversation. Great work as always Sam and team.

[goldengyrl2010]

I would vote for Spitzer too. He's not a puppet so he could never win!

[KayleLang]

Eliot Spitzer might of cheated, but does it really matter as much as people make it out to be? What he did didn't effect the public as a whole. Bankers ruin peoples lives, anti-gay rhetoric have lead to suicides, pro-lifers lead to the targeting and assassinations of doctors.

[goldengyrl2010]

@KayleLang Spitzer was contributing to employment and the economy at the same time. Legalize prostitution in every state--make bankers pay 100x more than anyone else. Now that will jump start this economy.

[TrollBuster9090]

Becoming a plutocracy?

That ship sailed a long time ago, my friend.

Class warfare?

The class war was fought 30 years ago. We lost. We're now just trying to mount an insurgency to prevent a mass scale class genocide.

[bungerman1000]

Spitzer needs to run for president, I don't care who he slept with.

[TrollBuster9090]

@bungerman1000

Absolutely!

And, in fact, if you compare:

Bill Clinton vs. George Bush, or

JFK vs. Richard Nixon

It seems that the less you screw around, the worse a president you make. It may be unsavory, but it's true. Being a bounder makes you a better president.

[captcrais101]

@TrollBuster9090 JFK would never sign NAFTA inot law

[TrollBuster9090]

@captcrais101

Good point.  Nor would he have signed Gramm-Leach-Bliley and the CFMA Acts, or put Rahm on the board of Freddie Mac on the way out the door.

[redraven2682]

@bungerman1000 or at least run the SEC and ride heard on Wall street and the Banks!!!!!!!

[kazooga1234]

the entitlement programs are their own entity and have a surplus until 2048 and thats if we dont add money into it we should never raise the retirement age or anything its called taxing the rich so the max they are paying is over 800 dollars

[TrollBuster9090]

@kazooga1234

Yes, Social Security is a trust fund that doesn't contribute to the deficit, and it's solvent. Yes, the govt. has borrowed against it, and "all that's in there is a bunch-a IOUs"-Alan Simpson. But all that's in a bank is a bunch-a IOUs, and it doesn't seem to set THEM back any. Nobody calls it a Ponzie Scheme.

The only reason the plutocrats are obsessing over making SS private is because then the gamblers on Wall Street get to make billions in bonuses playing with the money.

[kazooga1234]

@TrollBuster9090 not just that if they make it private then they are stealing our money because that is money we put into the system money the rich also paid into but can do without and get back in bush tax cuts

[whatisahumans]

Rushing into?

Already there.