Rick Santelli - Chicago Tea Party

[boowonder888]

4:00 ""5% of the traders are in the room and santelli calls that a ""pretty good cross section of America"". Thats a joke right? First of all Santelli is a trader, he profits off what other ppl create. 2nd, 20 traders is hardly a crossection of anything. He prolly has calmed now that Obama s policies have pushed the Dow at 12000 points.

What a poser!

[hellokitty2627]

this tea party thing is stupid they are all acting like a bunch of animals

[BenAliGtor]

Santelli doesn't even live in Chicago, nor was he born in Chicago.

[praqc]

FUCK YOU!

[Azbx23]

The energy trading pit of the CME a representative sample of the US population? Get the fuck outta here.

Also, will someone please fire these fucking traders? Almost every other exchange on the planet uses an electronic trading system to lower costs for investors and increase efficiency.

[bzkcarter]

people did vote last nov and said they wanted Obama.

[GOBFilms]

But how many voted on substance of politics?

People voted for key words. Period.

[bzkcarter]

Most voted for the substance it was only the right wing loud voices that tried to make it seem people didnt know what they were voting for. Thats why so few actually showed up to these tea parties

[miata492]

We are comming and we are going to take america back  .The goverment created this

[horsesinnyc]

CNBC and Santelli are snakes, they are the ones who promoted all these companies and hedge funds that were crooked and lost all our money and now he is attacking homeowners.

[bungerman1000]

"this is america" the funny part, this is coming from WALLSTREET.

[refused]

THE START OF THE REVOLUTION

[spartanofdelphi]

We have now begun this week to take Obama and his failing Administration into the Courts. This is now a battle in the Courts and many, many cases will wind up in the Supreme Court. Way to go Obama. Most divisive President in the History of the UNITED STATES!

[AgentFour]

Santelli is an idiot? Millions of people protested yesterday because of him. Without his rant against Obama, and calling for people to hold tea parties, we wouldn't have done anything.

[Gark50]

Rick Santelli is a total moron and so are the rest of these right wing republican clowns. Thank God Obama is our president, America sure made the right choice. Get use to losing elections republicans, its your only destiny.

[FreudWasAFraud]

Then why have Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz have come out against Obama? Why did Krugman (correctly) call the new 'legacy asset' plan essentially the same one Hank Paulson proposed last fall?

Obama = Wall Street. Follow the money.

[truthfreedom4all]

Stiglitz was on Morning Joe today and basically said Geithner's plan was robbing the American taxpayer. Look up Geitherner's CV and you'll find out he is a whore for the bankers as well. Obama was funded by Wall Street. He doesn't give a shit about We the People yet the dumbed down masses like Gark50 will never get it. Bush was no different either. He too was a puppet for the banksters.

[tonyutter]

Yes thank God Obama is running this country into the ground so that our children will have to pay for our mistakes. Thank God he is giving us a "tax cut" that will only have to be paid back later.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Keep drinking your kool-aid.

[pitbrand]

The problem with your statement is this problem was started before our current president took the office and is just now being exposed because of the truth that government spending towards only big business is corrupt and has collapsed our economy. It was Bush that put us in two foreign countries that we must continue to burn money in every day and then the first major stimulus was signed by Bush because of the fear of depression. Keep your ignorant kool-aid speech to yourself.

[pitbrand]

You only know what you've been feed. So far there has been no change to the way government has been and now we are sending more troops to war and sending more money to big business and the banks. I remember hearing him say "change" and get ride of the special interest lobbies but that still seems to be what is running this show. Hope you and all the rest figure it all out soon.

Ron Paul is the man that had real change on the plate and was stirring up that kind of talk that became popular.

[3y3S9y]

what the hell does any of this have to do with right wing republican clowns? this has to do with you and me. Joe the plumber. You don't care about your economy? you don't care about what your money is spent on? do you even know what the bailouts did? you seem stuck on the whole democrat republican thing, buddy its two sides of the same coin. Quite being blinded by partisan ties. "Thank god Obama is our president". You sir/mam need to smell the coffee.

[wogdoggy]

@Gark50 save your crap for the 35 k a year dummycrap..obama is a loser who's policies suck..good luck with any recovery with a dummycrat in charge..santelli should be mayor..and you should get back to your broom

[stc1958]

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. -

[pitbrand]

I love the Declaration of Independence. Starting to feel like we may have to take it to task.

[stc1958]

Sad that more fail to recognize the beauty of the document and why it is so important now, More than ever!

[anarchylogic]

I have been listening to Rick for years now, I'm glad to see him finaly YELL OUT AT THESE DOUCHBAGS!!!

[dryejd]

Rick Santelli for president!!!

[whaddafuck]

Siddhaam is right," our gov has been hijacked by criminals". And can you imagine how hard they must be laughing when Americans subsidize their gambling debts and lear jets, then turn on each other. "cuz somebody might be gettin sumthin for nothin". All I can think is that a lot of Americans are dumbasses.

[Levirobertson]

No matter how you look at it bad behavior is being rewarded...so how is more money being thrown at a bad system going to work? I think it will only promote more corruption at all levels. Trillions of dollars and now it looks like that is just the beginning! Don't let the Dems scare you into thinking that the sky is falling and the only way out is through the check book, this only promotes their underlying greed; more government control...Is that the American Way?

[FreudWasAFraud]

Well put.

If you don't want to flush trillions down the military industrial toilet, you're unpatriotic.

If you don't want to flush trillions (and there will be many more trillions to come ) down the civilian "public-private" toilet, you're heartless.

[falcons12345]

mmmmmmmmmmmmgay

[siddhaam]

Santelli is a professional gambler. He creates nothing of real value. His rant sickened me.

People like Santelli are up in arms because Obama is giving assistance to struggling families, and work on infrastructure projects to the unemployed.

They think infrastructure social inclusion, education and medical care is theft.

They are what we call mé féiners (me for myself).

They begrudge any assistance to their fellow Americans.

The spirit is dying in America.

[FreudWasAFraud]

We spend much more and get much less for our money, on government administered education, compared with every other nation.

We spend much more and get much less on our hybrid, public-private, health care system as well.

It's a stupid idea to throw money at banks that are clearly insolvent. It's just as stupid to throw money at a government that's clearly broken.

It's not selfish to refuse to support a dysfunctional system.

[siddhaam]

You are right...the American system is dysfunctional. But ordinary Americans are not to blame.

Wall St.'s gambling debts and fradulent banking practices are to blame.

A nation needs a government. It needs infrastructure, education and healthcare.

I really cannot understand you Americans. You seem to want to live in some sort of jungle where its every man for himself, and survival of the fittest.

It's such a primitive conception of life.

Like it's still the wild west or something.

[IBERJEN]

Really?Your economy is worse thean the States.

[siddhaam]

you obviously haven't read my comment.

but why should you bother...you're American and America is the greatest...not!

My eight year old nephew was on holiday in America recently and know what he said - everything is worn out and run down.

Your economy is 60+ trillion in the hole.

You are the brokest economy of all the economies of the world.

I dont blame ordinary Americans. Your gov has been hijacked by criminals.

But you need to wake up and see the real picture. It aint pretty.

[IBERJEN]

Hah.....Bad form but-fucker!I'm an Euro ex-patriot that was tired of paying 48%payroll tax for slugs like you!

[siddhaam]

Well hope you're enjoyiing life in the fast lane. hasn't done much for your state of mind by the sound of the thoughts that come out of it.

All the best.

[acethebruin]

Socialists are a joke! The USSR crumbled, china is a falsehood, and North Korea is broke! It does not work! It is for the lazy and uneducated people! I do not and will not give one sent to people who do not work for it! What I earn is for myself and my family!

[falcons12345]

thats cuse' they aint real socialists, they use the guise of socialism to be every day dictators. Just like the US is not truly capitalist. People will use any political system or religion to manipulate something to their advantage.

[whaddafuck]

just a sidenote , if you think the global financial meltdown is happening because a small percentage of american homes are foreclosing , then they, the media and the banks have you snowed. This kind of commentary is good distraction whether it was intended to be or not.

[sparky413]

Obama wants to pay the mortgages of people who have no self control. They spent more then they earned (Just like our Government). I made my payments on time. I never took out a 2nd. Now I have to "Reward" those who are out of control so they can continue to lead their destructive financial lifestyles. It will never end. They need to fail in order to learn. I had 2 cars repossessed when I was younger. I learned from that experience. Tea party? DANG RIGHT!

[gransasso22]

You tell 'em Rick. Well Said!

[whaddafuck]

Santelli is well aware that the FED has opened the discount window to secondary and private institutions for over two years now. this stimulus bill is peanuts in comparison to the liquidity that the FED is pumping into the system that doesn't require congressional approval. Estimates are close to ten trillion in the last two years alone. THAT is the taxes of our grandchildrens children being secretly disbursed while the media bickers the little stuff.

[whaddafuck]

His comments are ridiculous. hard working people are losing their livelihoods and homes while people in the media throw blame around everywhere except at the criminals that started this whole mess. It adds to the confusion. None of them talk about the republican Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act that took the controls off of the entire financial system in 1999 yet at every opportunity take shots at this administrations decisions. smoke and mirrors.

[stewyman08]

His comments are not ridiculous. The notion that the government should be taking money from hard working individuals like myself to give to someone who didn't act responsibly is insane. I don't make a lot of money, but the government constantly has its hands in my pockets. This mess was created by government, starting clear back in the 70s with their community reinvestment acts and crap. The government needs to step out and let the free markets take back over.

[whaddafuck]

Stewy , he's 2 years late. the way I see it is the FED is going to create money out of thin air despite what anyone including the congress says. And almost ALL of it is going into international bankers toilets. So If I have a choice where my tax dollars are going I choose my neighbor and fellow American before I would give another cent to these criminal banking cork suckers.

[whaddafuck]

this guy is wrong and he is insulting americans like Gramm did when he called us all whiners. For every mortgage thats out there these banks and wall street wizards created a hundred times more investment products. THATS WHATS BLOWING UP !!! For every one REAL forclosure there is 100 or more IMAGINARY FORCLOSURES!!!!! Yet nobody seems to have a problem bailing out all of these IMAGINARY NEIGHBORS!!!! This administration and media are trying to pull the wool over our eyes and blame us.

[siddhaam]

Well said...a voice of reason and clear sight.

The bankers will be delighted to see ordinary Americans blaming each other for the crisis. Blaming the "losers" and the government.

But it is Wall St.'s gambling debts that caused this...and their reckless and fradulent banking practices.

I fear for america...it is about to tear itself apart.

I am rooting for Americans...all Americans - not for capitalism.

PS you are going to need each other in the times ahead...think things through.

[thhhegame33]

when is the "party?"

[misterwipedown]

can we impeach obama?

[stewyman08]

We need to do it soon before this pack of idiots bankrupt the country.

[seekingsanity]

the silent majority...we are mad as hell and we aren't going to take it anymore!!!!!! are you listening OBAMA????!!!!!!

[OKState88]

seekingsanity...

Exactly right.

[garyowen4ever]

hey rikki, where ya gonna have this little tea party, cubs park, sox park, grant park or really go for it and put it ini HYDE PARK,,,,,ON THE MIDWAY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, right in the heart of the liberal rich pig colony. LMAO.......too funny.........hahahahahaha

[TruBluTopaz]

From Rick's mic to Obama's ears. I cannot believe, seeing the economic tragedy that is California, that people would allow Pelosi to impose this type of socialist regime on the rest of the nation. Bless you Rick. I hope that when MSLSD fires you, you get your own show.

[combat1856]

Dam Right Rick! Fuck socialism!

[Fangornmmc]

@combat1856 I am a socialist. Proud of it too, no it's not the ultimate system nor is any other idealogy ideal. There must be a balance but raving idiots like Rick...

Do you now understand why we in Europe most of the time consider America the "village of the stupid" or should I say cave?

[skiandngolfgirl]

Right on Rick! Why can't we have a lot more reporters like this who actually have the brains and the guts to say what he did?? The mortgage rescue plan proposed by our new "administration" is a disgrace. I am also sick and tired of being told as a taxpayer that I must support the losers and the slackers who bought houses that they had no business buying in the first place.

[wstcw]

WELL SAID RICK ! ! ! !

[jum1801]

The Washington jerks are ignoring us! NO ONE WANTED THE "STIMULUS PACKAGE", and we were ignored.

It's time for Atlas to shrug...

[bondor2]

one day...

[Hmemling]

Lead the charge Rick. We need your voice. Our "leaders" either don't know what their doing or they are evil doers.

I hope Barney Frank isn't sleeping well at night. He and Chris Dodd screwed this country up big time.

[jupiterschild]

Finally some one speaks for the average American...I pay my bills. All those that bought homes they could not afford, performed a losing act. Why should we pay for the house for them, when they never expected to be able to remain in the house. People bought homes they knew they were going to lose. I heard commits like...well I'll have it for a while, why not. And we are bailing these scammers out? Demented!!!

[stonyeagle67]

Great take.

[1Siamese1]

Way to go Rick! I think all major cities will be having their own tea party pretty soon. America is really fired up. Why should honest, tax paying Americans pick up the tab for losers?

[PleiadesSeven]

"I'm thinking of dumping in some derivative securities, how about that!"

[garyowen4ever]

larry kudlow, the classic wall street new york wealth class scumbag wants to speak at the chicago tea party,,,,HEY CHICAGO, LET'S GIVE LARRY THE NEW YORKER KUDLOW, THE WELCOME HE SESERVES!!!

[Crissysue2]

I love it!

[daivitkm]

kekekekekekekeke i love ricky~ he should be fired from CNBC~