‘How many billions of dollars do you have to launder for drug lords before somebody says, we’re shutting you down?’
Senator Elizabeth Warren does it again:
“If you’re caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you’re going to go to jail. If it happens repeatedly, you may go to jail for the rest of your life. But apparently, if you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate our international sanctions, your company pays a fine and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night. Every single individual associated with this. And I think that’s fundamentally wrong.”
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This woman is a-okay in my book. I don’t know how the people behind her can sit with such straight faces and how the guys she is interrogating can answer without throwing up. I really hope her actions encourage other new senators to start speaking up for the people they represent.
Elizabeth Warren, you give me hope that House of Cards isn’t how all politicians actually are.
God I LOVE her.
I wish the Banking Committee met every day just so I could see her grilling these guys more often. I love how her experience as a professor allows her to cut right through their bullshit when the won’t answer a question.
Still playing the moral outrage card, still doing nothing about it.
@Morbo It’s better than what everyone else is doing, which is nothing. Someone has to start somewhere.
@Morbo What do you propose she should be doing instead?
Her ideas are spot on but I’m really hoping her tenure in congress yields more than exciting soundbites.
@EvanDeSimone It’s up to U.S. citizens to vote in more politicians with her ideas then. The buck stops with us ultimately.
@Blondsak that’s my point exactly. I worry that we live in a world where people are satisfied with tough talk even if its not followed by action. We’re sort of the generation of “that was a jazzy soundbite…case closed!”
@EvanDeSimone It’s not a generational thing because there have always been “jazzy” soundbites so long as there has been newsreels at the movies and radios and people have always been complacent. Probably because when they do try to stand up and protest, nothing good happens. Read about the WWI vets who marched on Washington for their pensions in the 30′s. If that’s not a reminder as to why protesting is scary, ineffective stuff, I don’t know what is.
@josefinastrummer I agree that protest isn’t really the means to achieve these particular ends.y concerns is that so many people see a YouTube clip of bankers receiving some tough talk in a congressional hearing and consider it job done.