Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Fed Audit (prepare yourself to be ticked off) [View all]Autumn
(45,120 posts)282. Too small indeed.
Edit history
Please sign in to view edit histories.
293 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
RecommendedHighlight replies with 5 or more recommendations
Royal Bank of Scotland is a US chartered bank - this nonsense has been pointed out
banned from Kos
Sep 2012
#3
Thank you for defending the Banks, we expect no less of you and no thread on the massive
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#25
Really! The "appearance" of a conflict of interest is a problem, but an actual
savannah43
Sep 2012
#248
You DO know that the Majority Leader has to vote with a filibuster to bring it back up again
LSK
Sep 2012
#20
I totally agree with you and do not expect to see any defense of this on a Democratic
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#56
The GAO (Congress) conducts a full audit! Get a grip, man! Here it is..
banned from Kos
Sep 2012
#83
Once the full audit is released, who would be responsible for DOING something - who has that power?
gateley
Sep 2012
#145
It depends, seems to me. If you increase the number of dollars and at the same
JDPriestly
Sep 2012
#200
He's been buying gold an mining stocks since Nixon delinked the dollar from gold.
xFiFtyOnE
Sep 2012
#44
You did NOT answer the question. How about Bernie Sanders and Alan Grayson? Are they nuts too?
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#62
I dont see Bernie Sanders going around trying to deregulate everything and spewing free trade BS
LSK
Sep 2012
#64
But you do see Bernie Sanders and Alan Grayson demanding that the Fed be audited.
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#73
That is a bald-faced lie. I have never defended Ron Paul. You have never seen me do so.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#103
A very transparent ploy, and a weak one. I just wanted to give the poster the opportunity
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#92
Well, I have not alerted on the posts trashing a Democrat as a 'political oppurtunist'
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#121
And likening Bernie Sanders to Ron Paul, definitely a troll move worthy of a hide.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#100
Why are you trying to dispute my assertion that RON PAUL is a FUCKING NUT?
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2012
#84
There was no reason for you to bring Ron Paul into this, except to distract the issue.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#90
Why not? It's a very simple question. Bernie Sanders and Alan Grayson who is running
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#104
You know whats funny? When people think they are entitled to demand random answers on shit.
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2012
#114
This thread is about Bernie Sanders discovering $16 trillion stolen from taxpayers. NOT Ron Paul.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#124
Upset? Nope, I'm glad we've established that there was no reason to bring Ron Paul into this.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#135
I think it's funny when people get all huffy and demand random answers and shit.
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2012
#155
You did NOT answer the question. How about Bernie Sanders and Alan Grayson? Are they nuts?
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#78
Like Ron Paul, Bernie Sanders and Alan Grayson are carbon based life forms.
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2012
#88
This thread is about Bernie Sanders' audit of the Fed, it is NOT about RON PAUL.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#93
You had no reason for bringing him into this thread. This thread is about Bernie Sanders
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#105
This thread is about Bernie Sanders discovering $16 trillion stolen from taxpayers.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#113
You did NOT answer the question. How about Bernie Sanders and Alan Grayson? Are they nuts?
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#77
Then you had no reason to bring up Ron Paul. This thread is about Bernie Sanders, not Ron Paul.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#137
We have an issue with you going off-topic. This thread is about Bernie Sanders, NOT Ron Paul.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#119
Then stay out of the subthread which brought ron paul into it, that would be my advice.
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2012
#122
No. I intend to vigorously challenge any attempts at connecting Ron Paul to Bernie Sanders.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#128
RP and his paulbots have been lighting up congressional phone lines on demand
AtheistCrusader
Sep 2012
#218
Bernie Sanders comes to his own conclusions whether or not the Paulites even exist.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#224
I might answer your orig. question if you werent acting like you're Macloud doing an interrogation
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2012
#118
Ron Paul is still irrelevant. This is about Bernie Sanders discovering $16 Trillion in theft.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#130
We need to punish those responsible for moving that money, IN SECRET, out of the country.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#281
I might take you seriously if you weren't having such a hard time supporting two of the most
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#132
We're discussing Bernie Sanders' discovery of $16 Trillion stolen from American taxpayers
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#148
But you didn't respond to me who was not promoting Ron Paul but who was promoting
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#144
Lol, just amazed at how hard it is to get someone to either confirm or deny that they
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#160
First question you asked was, are they nuts too. No, Bernie Sanders and Alan Grayson are not, to my
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2012
#151
Well, I think in fact I do have my answer. Silence means consent, Counselor!
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#170
Why are you trying to make me responsible for what someone else said? I'm not.
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2012
#172
Speaking of knowing what things mean, do you know what "Moral hazard" actually means?
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2012
#196
Yes, I agree. What they discovered should have been reason to call a special session of
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#205
You are making no sense at all now. Your claim was that I somewhere said there was no
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#220
"16 Trillion Dollars handed out like candy"... Er, Did you actually read the GAO report?
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2012
#230
Anyway, you can't seem to find me saying the things you wish I would say, so you want to hang
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2012
#214
I didn't misrepresent Sanders. Sanders described THEFT without using the exact word.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#204
What do you think of Bernie Sanders discovering $16 Trillion stolen from taxpayers?
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#157
Show me where Senator Sanders used that word, "stolen", and I'll answer.
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2012
#174
You mean Bernie Sanders and Alan Grayson's audits. Very nice try, but you have to
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#30
Just stop! Trillions of dollars have gone to bail out foreign banks. This is NOT going to be
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#46
Like it or not the teabaggers in Grayson's district retailated against him for his support of ACA.
girl gone mad
Sep 2012
#275
Bernie Sanders disagrees with you. $16 trillion was stolen and moved out of the country.
Zalatix
Sep 2012
#59
Could you please post a copy of the Deloitte audit report -- or a link to it?
JDPriestly
Sep 2012
#199
One needs to look at the history surrounding the creation of the Federal Reserve...
roamer65
Sep 2012
#10
The Illuminati created it so they could summon the Antichrist at the Bohemian Grove
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2012
#16
Greenspan admitted being wrong about the banks ability to "self correct"
banned from Kos
Sep 2012
#171
Why do you disagree with Progressives like Alan Grayson that the Fed needs to be
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#32
If you are a Democrat you are progressive, there is no such thing as a regressive Democrat
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#142
Resorting to playing the victim now? Either you are sure of who and what your are,
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#153
This: "I am a Democrat which makes it easy for me to not to have to make excuses
Zorra
Sep 2012
#283
Don't be foolish. The Fed is not Wall St - the Fed is inside the beltway DC
banned from Kos
Sep 2012
#286
do all Private Corporations have their boards appointed by Presidents and approved by the Senate?
LSK
Sep 2012
#23
Alan Grayson questioning Fed Reserve General Inspector 'Is anyone minding the store at the Fed?
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#35
I agree, yet in this very thread Bernie Sanders and Alan Grayson have been called
sabrina 1
Sep 2012
#109
I have been saying it to anyone who would listen ever since 2008: FOREIGN MONEY FOREIGN MONEY FOREIG
patrice
Sep 2012
#182
Foreign, as in Traitors, who are not deserving of national constitutionalities?
fascisthunter
Sep 2012
#191
There is no doubt in my mind that money, which was wrung out of the lives, lands,
patrice
Sep 2012
#195
Threads like this make me wonder how many DU'ers actually think the Federal Reserve.....
A HERETIC I AM
Sep 2012
#194
Those aren't my concerns. My concerns are about what kinds of deals will be made with
patrice
Sep 2012
#206
For someone who regularly puts herself up as an expert on all thing financial...
A HERETIC I AM
Sep 2012
#284
You seem to want to revise recent history to fit a narrow pro-banker agenda.
girl gone mad
Sep 2012
#285
Since the Fed doesn't operate with "US tax dollars" this entire thread is a farce
cthulu2016
Sep 2012
#207
I can agree with you on that point. QE's have been a boon to Too Big to Fail Banks & Nothing for
KoKo
Sep 2012
#264
There is no doubt that there are some problems found but I have a couple of points to make.
AnnaLee
Sep 2012
#231
Isn't that cute? You're actually expecting the hair-on-fire folks to stop and think? Silly girl.
TahitiNut
Sep 2012
#232
Um, if a bank loans the $1 to person A, who pays it back with 5% interest, it STILL charges person B
Romulox
Sep 2012
#239
I mean, why not just pay off your VISA bill with your MASTERCARD, then pay your MASTERCARD with your
Romulox
Sep 2012
#241
Once upon a time, in the olden days when regulations were (temporarily) far more reasonable,
TahitiNut
Sep 2012
#242
I know. But when I tried to pay my DISCOVER card, they told me, "It's one hundred and TEN dollars.
Romulox
Sep 2012
#243
i have a friend who wants them hung by their thumbs in front of the white house
xiamiam
Sep 2012
#251