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Obama Biggest Donors In 2012 Federal Government Workers Are Number 7 and 13 on

By Steve B   Follow   Mon, 13 Aug 2012, 2:22pm   809 views   16 comments
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Paid so well they have extra income to donate to Barack Obama. Are they motivated by altruism?
http://nalert.blogspot.com/2012/08/obama-biggest-donors-in-2012-federal.html

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1. iwog Follow Befriend (48) 274 threads 12,576 comments 47 male Lafayette, CA Premium

   1   2:25pm Mon 13 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike   Protected   This says it all as far as I'm concerned. Every other right wing post regarding campaign contributions is a fucking joke by comparison:

2. iwog Follow Befriend (48) 274 threads 12,576 comments 47 male Lafayette, CA Premium

   2   2:28pm Mon 13 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   Protected

3. iwog Follow Befriend (48) 274 threads 12,576 comments 47 male Lafayette, CA Premium

   3   7:54am Tue 14 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Protected   No comment eh? I'd be embarrassed too. Republicans: The party of criminal banks.

4. Quigley Follow Befriend (6) 17 threads 525 comments Huntington Beach, CA

   4   8:02am Tue 14 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Well Mitt Romney is certainly the darling of banks everywhere! They couldn't have gotten a more allied candidate. I'm not seeing a lot better option with Obama, given his cronyism with the stimulus money. Hundreds of billions directly to government workers, Solyndra, and other companies that financed his campaign. Just goes to prove that money invested in buying Washington politicians is money very well spent. I think the return is around 10:1 !

5. david1 Follow Befriend (2) 8 threads 755 comments 33 male Fort Mill, SC

   5   10:31am Tue 14 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   iwog says This says it all as far as I'm concerned. Every other right wing post regarding campaign contributions is a fucking joke by comparison: I like this, I really do. But honestly, the biggest thing that jumps out at me is why is the University of California, a public institution funded by the taxpayers of California, giving money to a political campaign at all, much less a federal campaign?? I have no problem with Harvard. That is a private school. Dla piper is pretty scummy too. That is a mega law firm for the uninitiated. Based on this though, is there any doubt that Dodd-Frank will be repealed in a Romney Presidency?

6. iwog Follow Befriend (48) 274 threads 12,576 comments 47 male Lafayette, CA Premium

   6   10:35am Tue 14 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Protected   david1 says I like this, I really do. But honestly, the biggest thing that jumps out at me is why is the University of California, a public institution funded by the taxpayers of California, giving money to a political campaign at all, much less a federal campaign?? University of California can be best described as a semi-public institution considering how high tuition has risen. Here's a page showing the fees for the current year. http://registrar.berkeley.edu/feesched.html

7. curious2 Follow Befriend (5) 31 threads 2,265 comments Premium

   7   11:13am Tue 14 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   Protected   david1 says why is the University of California, a public institution funded by the taxpayers of California, giving money to a political campaign at all, much less a federal campaign? If you follow Iwog's source links, you'll see this on OpenSecrets.org: "The organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organizations' PACs, their individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates." I can think of at least two good reasons why University of California employees and students would donate to Democrats. (I don't work there and I'm not donating this year, after feeling quite burned by two of the candidates I donated to previously.) Democrats support science, including medical research, and fund it. The University of California does a lot of research, including federally funded research. Republicans generally oppose science, especially where it disproves the Christian fundamentalists' beliefs (e.g. evolution). When Republicans get in, research gets curtailed. That means fewer jobs in research. Also, for both individual investors and pension funds, all of the net gains in the stock markets going back to 1930 occurred during Democratic administrations. By contrast, Republican administrations delivered around zero net returns, in fact negative if you go back further and count Hoover's misrule which included the disastrous 1929 crash. Republicans enrich bankers at the expense of the public, so it's easy to see why bankers would support them, e.g. Ryan's plan to privatize Social Security. Ryan's plan would produce huge bonuses for a few bankers, and prolong the Wall Street gravy train, but it would almost certainly result in a worse deal for taxpayers, including probably another bailout.

8. StoutFiles Follow Befriend (1) 24 threads 557 comments

   8   11:15am Tue 14 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   It all reeks to high heaven. Romney's funds are obviously dirty coming from the banks, but it's not as if Obama's funds are clean either. Either way you vote it's still big business that rules the country. Our colleges needlessly up tuition to laughable levels, our corporations cut jobs and/or lower wages because of outsourcing, and the banks still control everyone by locking them into debt, regardless of how many bad loans they give out. There needs to be another way. I want someone that represents the people, not the major corporations, banks, and colleges that enslave the people.

9. Bellingham Bill Follow Befriend 30 threads 1,488 comments Bellingham, WA Premium

   9   11:42am Tue 14 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Protected   iwog says University of California can be best described as a semi-public institution considering how high tuition has risen Blue & Gold plan makes UC pretty cheap for median households and below. (~$80,000 per year) http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/paying-for-uc/financial-aid/grants/blue-gold/index.html

10. HEY YOU Follow Befriend (4) 334 threads 922 comments

    10   12:27pm Tue 14 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   From George Carlin's ~ The American Dream: "Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls."

11. CaptainShuddup Follow Befriend (1) 250 threads 4,758 comments

    11   12:33pm Tue 14 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (2)   StoutFiles says Romney's funds are obviously dirty coming from the banks, but it's not as if Obama's funds are clean either. What does it matter, Obama is going to win anyway. Patnet said so. And CNN and talk enough about it.

12. divingengineer Follow Befriend 15 comments Oakland, CA

    12   4:50pm Tue 14 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Bellingham Bill says iwog says University of California can be best described as a semi-public institution considering how high tuition has risen Blue & Gold plan makes UC pretty cheap for median households and below. (~$80,000 per year) http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/paying-for-uc/financial-aid/grants/blue-gold/index.html Oh, don't forget all the odds and ends that add up! More like 50K a year to have your kid live in the dorms. $200K for a four year liberal arts degree isn't bad. /Sarcasm

13. thomaswong.1986 Follow Befriend 15 threads 2,851 comments

    13   9:46pm Wed 15 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   iwog says No comment eh? Google is watching everthing you do! They are the most evil company out there!

14. iwog Follow Befriend (48) 274 threads 12,576 comments 47 male Lafayette, CA Premium

    14   9:46pm Wed 15 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Protected   thomaswong.1986 says Google is watching everthing you do! They are the most evil company out there! There ya go folks, critical thinking on display by a Republican.

15. thomaswong.1986 Follow Befriend 15 threads 2,851 comments

    15   9:59pm Wed 15 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   curious2 says Republicans generally oppose science, especially where it disproves the Christian fundamentalists' beliefs (e.g. evolution). When Republicans get in, research gets curtailed. That means fewer jobs in research. Explain then why so many Silicon Valley tech company founders , many with Scientific background, over the past several decades are Republicans ? As far as research was concerned much of what High Tech SV industry created over the past several decades were brand new ideas and virgin territories, not taught by academia...but ultimately made its way to academia years later. Much of the multi decade long research was infact made by industry, not academia or government.

16. thomaswong.1986 Follow Befriend 15 threads 2,851 comments

    16   10:01pm Wed 15 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   iwog says There ya go folks, critical thinking on display by a Republican. doesnt take much to see.. pretty obvious! sign up.. spill your mind.. add Facebook and all the rest !