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08-23-2011, 09:34 AM
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Originally Posted by RIJIMMY
Citibank??? You mean the company that received billions and billions from the treasury? The company at the height of the wall st fervor? Are you kidding me? Sound like Chicago politics to me
So Dems, I listened to all kinds of Halliburton conspiracies but was there ever anything as obvious as THIS?????? Where are the journalists now????????????
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You do know that the S&P is a business, right? And that they can put whomever they want at the helm?
The Haliburton "conspiracies" were due to direct ties between the VP and major, no-bid contracts being handed over to them.
You're really grasping at straws when it comes to making any correlation here. How does a bank that received TARP money (which was requested by and signed into law by Bush) compare to Haliburton receiving no-bid contracts (also under Bush)?
There are much better, and obvious, examples of the Obama administration putting corporate big wigs into political roles. |
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08-23-2011, 12:36 PM
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You do know that the S&P is a business, right? And that they can put whomever they want at the helm?
The Haliburton "conspiracies" were due to direct ties between the VP and major, no-bid contracts being handed over to them.
You're really grasping at straws when it comes to making any correlation here. How does a bank that received TARP money (which was requested by and signed into law by Bush) compare to Haliburton receiving no-bid contracts (also under Bush)?
There are much better, and obvious, examples of the Obama administration putting corporate big wigs into political roles.
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And when the rating goes up Obama's rating goes up too. Correlation?? |
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08-23-2011, 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted by buckman
And when the rating goes up Obama's rating goes up too. Correlation??
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What are you even talking about? |
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08-23-2011, 05:54 PM
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What are you even talking about?
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08-23-2011, 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnnyD
You do know that the S&P is a business, right? And that they can put whomever they want at the helm?
The Haliburton "conspiracies" were due to direct ties between the VP and major, no-bid contracts being handed over to them.
You're really grasping at straws when it comes to making any correlation here. How does a bank that received TARP money (which was requested by and signed into law by Bush) compare to Haliburton receiving no-bid contracts (also under Bush)?
There are much better, and obvious, examples of the Obama administration putting corporate big wigs into political roles.
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Your kidding, right?
so a major corporation disses the US credit and get extreme heat from the Obama admin.
Within weeks, the president of the corporation is ousted and in his place the head of a company that has received billions and billions from the Obama administration. Thats a coincidence? |
making s-b.com a kinder, gentler place for all 
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08-23-2011, 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by RIJIMMY
Your kidding, right?
so a major corporation disses the US credit and get extreme heat from the Obama admin.
Within weeks, the president of the corporation is ousted and in his place the head of a company that has received billions and billions from the Obama administration. Thats a coincidence?
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that, and Justice Department and Senate investigations I believe...yup..just coincidence |
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08-23-2011, 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by RIJIMMY
Your kidding, right?
so a major corporation disses the US credit and get extreme heat from the Obama admin.
Within weeks, the president of the corporation is ousted and in his place the head of a company that has received billions and billions from the Obama administration. Thats a coincidence?
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Citibank received $300B in 2008. Again, it was received under Bush, so no, I'm not kidding.
U.S. Agrees to Rescue Struggling Citigroup - WSJ.com |
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08-23-2011, 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnnyD
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That...and I believe S&P was already under investigation for ratings abuse on mortgage backed securities. Quite likely their president wouldn't have lasted long anyway.
As for picking a replacement that had received bailout money...didn't most of them?
The conspiracy theorists would say the downgrade was retrobution for the investigations.
-spence |
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08-23-2011, 02:52 PM
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let's see, what seems more plausible? S&P Downgrades America as an unnecessary and in your face threat to the Obama Admin over an investigation by the Justice Dept which they "swear" began prior to the downgrade...
or a really angry Obama Admin and their notoriously out of control Justice Department launch and investigation of S&P as retribution for defying them and downgrading America...oh, and there's the angry dems in the Senate too...
plenty of kisses from the Obama Admin to Citigroup Johnny
U.S. gave up billions in tax money in deal for Citigroup's bailout repayment
Obama Advisers' Citigroup Ties Raise Questions - NYTimes.com |
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