A simple thank you is always appropriate

[jimntx]

Thank you

 

[Seatacus]

Thank you

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Blotter/story?id=5891663&page=1

Someone else is also thankful................

Goldman Sachs bankers are also the number one contributors to the Barack Obama presidential campaign, giving $691,930 to his campaign in this cycle, according to the records.

 

[Veritas]

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Blotter/story?id=5891663&page=1

Someone else is also thankful................

Goldman Sachs bankers are also the number one contributors to the Barack Obama presidential campaign, giving $691,930 to his campaign in this cycle, according to the records.

Not totally accurate. There is an old saying that half the truth is worse than a lie.

First, because of contribution limits, organizations that bundle together many individual contributions are often among the top donors to presidential candidates. These contributions can come from the organization's members or employees and their families. The organization may support one candidate, or hedge its bets by supporting multiple candidates. Groups with national networks of donors make for particularly big bundlers.

Second, Goldman Sachs did not contribute. The money came from its PAC, individual members or employees, and those individuals' immediate families.

Third, at $994,795, as a group Goldman Sachs' PAC, partners, employees and their family members were Obama's second largest contributor. The University of California's PAC, employees and their family members were first with a total of $1,591,395. US Government employees and their family members contributed a total total of $494,820.

Source: OpenSecrets.org

University of California	         $1,591,395
Goldman Sachs	                           $994,795
Harvard University	                   $854,747
Microsoft Corp	                           $833,617
Google Inc	                           $803,436
Citigroup Inc	                           $701,290
JPMorgan Chase & Co	                   $695,132
Time Warner	                           $590,084
Sidley Austin LLP	                   $588,598
Stanford University	                   $586,557
National Amusements Inc	                   $551,683
UBS AG	                                   $543,219
Wilmerhale Llp	                           $542,618
Skadden, Arps et al	                   $530,839
IBM Corp	                           $528,822
Columbia University	                   $528,302
Morgan Stanley	                           $514,881
General Electric	                   $499,130
US Government	                           $494,820
Latham & Watkins	                   $493,835

Fourth, Goldman Sachs employees were John McCain fourth largest contributor. First was Merrill Lynch, second was Citigroup and Morgan Stanley was third.

Some of John McCain's other notable contributors were employees of the US Government at $208,379, US Army $167,820, US Dept of Defense $144,105, Bear Stearns $117,498 and Lehman Brothers $114,357.

 

[Seatacus]

Not totally accurate. There is an old saying that half the truth is worse than a lie.

What?

Second, Goldman Sachs did not contribute. The money came from its PAC, individual members or employees, and those individuals' immediate families.

Did not say Goldman Sachs gave.........Goldman Sachs bankers. Sheesh........... :blink:

 

[Veritas]

What?

They were not the number one contributors.

And to put their contributions in perspective, they amounted to approximately one tenth of one percent of the $745 million raised by the Obama campaign (of which $730 million were spent).

 

[dapoes]

They were not the number one contributors.

And to put their contributions in perspective, they amounted to approximately one tenth of one percent of the $745 million raised by the Obama campaign (of which $730 million were spent).

Which makes it perfectly acceptable? No it does not!
Nice spin job tho!

 

[Seatacus]

They were not the number one contributors.

That statement was an excerpt from the ABC news blotter. Your beef is with them not me. Number one or number two the amount is still a lot. I think I hear the sound of hairs splitting................................

 

[dapoes]

I think this is more appropriate!

 

[JFK Fleet Service]

Those blasted Teamsters and their exotic financial constructs!

A pox upon them for selling it in one office and aggressively shorting it in another!

 

[dapoes]

Another interesting perspective: Goldman's White House connections raise eyebrows

Excerpts:

White House logs show that Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein traveled to Washington for at least two events with President Barack Obama, whose 2008 presidential campaign received $994,795 in donations from Goldman's employees and their relatives. He also met twice with Obama's top economic adviser, Larry Summers.

Meanwhile, however, Goldman is retaining former Obama White House counsel Gregory Craig as a member of its legal team. In addition, when he worked as an investment banker in Chicago a decade ago, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel advised one client who also retained Goldman as an adviser on the same $8.2 billion deal.

Theres quite the cozy relationship between those two, cozy indeed.

 

[delldude]

Not totally accurate. There is an old saying that half the truth is worse than a lie.

First, because of contribution limits, organizations that bundle together many individual contributions are often among the top donors to presidential candidates. These contributions can come from the organization's members or employees and their families. The organization may support one candidate, or hedge its bets by supporting multiple candidates. Groups with national networks of donors make for particularly big bundlers.

Second, Goldman Sachs did not contribute. The money came from its PAC, individual members or employees, and those individuals' immediate families.

Third, at $994,795, as a group Goldman Sachs' PAC, partners, employees and their family members were Obama's second largest contributor. The University of California's PAC, employees and their family members were first with a total of $1,591,395. US Government employees and their family members contributed a total total of $494,820.

Source: OpenSecrets.org

University of California	         $1,591,395
Goldman Sachs	                           $994,795
Harvard University	                   $854,747
Microsoft Corp	                           $833,617
Google Inc	                           $803,436
Citigroup Inc	                           $701,290
JPMorgan Chase & Co	                   $695,132
Time Warner	                           $590,084
Sidley Austin LLP	                   $588,598
Stanford University	                   $586,557
National Amusements Inc	                   $551,683
UBS AG	                                   $543,219
Wilmerhale Llp	                           $542,618
Skadden, Arps et al	                   $530,839
IBM Corp	                           $528,822
Columbia University	                   $528,302
Morgan Stanley	                           $514,881
General Electric	                   $499,130
US Government	                           $494,820
Latham & Watkins	                   $493,835

Fourth, Goldman Sachs employees were John McCain fourth largest contributor. First was Merrill Lynch, second was Citigroup and Morgan Stanley was third.

Some of John McCain's other notable contributors were employees of the US Government at $208,379, US Army $167,820, US Dept of Defense $144,105, Bear Stearns $117,498 and Lehman Brothers $114,357.

Opensecrets.org is at best a questionable source. It lists funding from the Joyce Foundation which is in the middle of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) carbon cap scam. Also it is involved with Shorebank and in the middle of all this too, is none other than Barack Obama and Goldman Sachs.

 

[777 fixer]

Opensecrets.org is at best a questionable source. It lists funding from the Joyce Foundation which is in the middle of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) carbon cap scam. Also it is involved with Shorebank and in the middle of all this too, is none other than Barack Obama and Goldman Sachs.

Exactly how is opensecrets.org a questionable source? Now remember just because a site says something you don’t like does not make it “questionable”. What they do is report who's giving money, who's getting it and how much in relation to politics. No matter the political views of those giving and receiving. All of this information is public knowledge since it is the law that politicians have to it.

Opensecrets is not like World Net Daily or the Daily Kos which leaves out facts or twists them to support their own political agenda.