by Stephen Lendman / April 18th, 2009
Since taking office, Obama, wittingly or otherwise, has headed the largest criminal enterprise in history — the mass looting of national wealth to enrich his Wall Street benefactors. He assembled a rogue economic team of Clinton/Robert Rubin retreads — to fix the current crisis they engineered.
In a March 13 article, (author and former Republican strategist) Kevin Phillips called them “recycled senior (Clinton administration) Democrats (responsible for the) tech mania, deregulation binge and (1997-2000) stock market bubble and crash. (Obama) extend(ed) the (disastrous) mismanagement and pro-Wall Street bias of the 2008 Bush regime bailout.”
He called Geithner and Bernanke “hapless,” the result of their ruinous misjudgments (and, along with Alan Greenspan, complicit) with finance-sector malfeasance.”
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I'm not sure I believe the present financial crisis was consciously engineered. But Obama's team certainly got the ball rolling. The present crisis is now beyond anyone's control.
To put it mildly, Obama's torture and financial policies are unsupportable. There should be special prosecutors both for torture and for Wall Street. Tom
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