Wall Street gets a Boehner

Apparently House Minority Leader John Boehner and other Republicans are having a little trouble getting their tea partying Joe Six-packs to donate to enough money to their campaigns so Rep. Boehner, and a few other republicans, are soliciting money from big time Wall Street CEO’s. Rep. Boehner has recently been trying to schmooze JP Morgan’s CEO James Dimon into donating to Republicans instead of Democrats, which would be an understandable move for Wall Street considering the policies that President Obama and other Democrats are in favor of, such as capping the way-over-the-top salaries that these CEOs receive, and implementing a system of payments the Banks must make to pay tax payers back for the money we lent them. Those policies being suggested by Democrats seem to make a lot of sense when you consider that a lot of the money they are using to pay themselves and to give themselves outlandish bonuses comes from the taxpayers in the form of the Bank Bailout. But Mr. Boehner and other Republicans are against all of those policies, and made their position clear during the State of the Union Address when President Obama announced that he wanted Wall Street to pay back the money American citizens had lent them, the Republicans were the only ones in the room not standing and applauding. So Republicans, like John Boehner, who have been praising themselves at these tea party events as the only members of congress who really care about the American people, and they’re the only ones who really represent everyday Americans like “Joe Six-pack”, don’t believe that tax payers should be paid back the money they’re owed by Wall Street and to take it a step further they want those CEOs who are giving themselves millions of tax payer dollars to jump ship and start donating to Republican candidates because they are not going to demand any re-payment the of tax payers loans. Their position on these issues could not expose their loyalties any better; they are on the side of big corporations, special interest, Wall Street, however you want to label it, they are on the side with the most money, period. Whoever is going to give them the most money is who they are loyal to. So while you, Mr. Six-pack, sit at home collecting unemployment checks and listening to people like John Boehner tell you how the Democratic Party wants to destroy America and how the Republicans are here to save the day, remember who gets the rhetoric and who gets the results; you hear everything you want to hear, and Wall Street gets everything they want to get.

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