According to the Daily Beast’s Joel Kotkin about two in three Americans do not think what’s good for Wall Street is good for America, according to the 2012 Harris poll, but do think people who work there are less “honest and moral than other people,” and don’t “deserve to make the kind of money they earn.” Confidence in banks is at a record low, according to Gallup, as they’ve suffered the steepest fall in esteem of any American institution over the past decade. And people have put their money where their mouth is, with $171 billion leaving the stock market last year alone, and 80 percent of Wall Street communications executives conceded that public perception of their firms was not good.
Americans are angry at the big-time bankers and brokers, and
yet, far from a populist attack on crony capitalism, Wall Street is sitting
pretty, looking ahead to a presidential election that it can’t possibly lose.
They have bankrolled a nifty choice between President Obama, the largest
beneficiary of financial-industry backing in history and Mitt Romney, one of
their very own.
One is to the manner born, the other a crafty servant;
neither will take on the power. Think of
this: despite taking office in the midst of a massive financial meltdown,
Obama’s administration has not prosecuted a single heavy-hitter among those
responsible for the financial crisis. To the contrary, he’s staffed his team
with big bankers and their allies….
Don’t stop reading now.
Go to http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/10/the-screwed-election-wall-street-can-t-lose-and-america-can-t-win.html
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