I just want you guys to know, this took me alot of time and effort to find this information out and put it together. Sadly, it's just the tip of the iceberg.
Rahm Emanuel: Obama Chief of Staff: Investment bank Wasserstein & Company
Bill Daley: Obama Chief of Staff: formerly Clinton U.S. Secretary of Commerce: used to work for JPMorgan Chase: Also was on Board of Directors for big pharma Merck, also Board of Directors for Boeing.
Jack Lew: Obama Chief of Staff: formerly head of Obama's Office of Management and Budget: used to work for Citigroup
Peter Orzag: formerly head of Obama's Office of Management and Budget: now works at Citigroup
Hank Paulson: former Bush Secretary of the Treasury: head of Goldman Sachs
Gary Gensler: Obama chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commisiion: formerly worked for Goldman Sachs
Mark Patterson: Obama Chief of staff to Treasury Secretary: He is also a member of the bar of the District of Columbia and of the U.S. Supreme Court. formerly Goldman Sachs Lobbyist and Managing Director
Timothy Geithner: Obama Secretary of the Treasury: formerly president of the Federal Reserve Bank of NY: Formerly IMF director of policy development and review department
John Snow: formerly CEO of CSX Corporation: formerly Bush Secretary of the Treasury: presently Chairman of Cerberus Capital Management (If you want some mind-blowing information about corruption with John Snow's CSX Corporation read the articles at this link: http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2005-National-Reporting
Robert Rubin: 26 years at Goldman Sachs: Clinton US Secretary of the Treasury: Then went to work for Citigroup
Robert Rubin and Peter Orszag- Belong to a group called: The Hamilton Project The Hamilton Project mission: The Hamilton Project offers a strategic vision and produces innovative policy proposals on how to create a growing economy that benefits more Americans.
The Project’s strategy reflects a judgment that long-term prosperity is best achieved by fostering economic growth and broad participation in that growth, by enhancing individual economic security, and by embracing a role for effective government in making needed public investments.
This is just a small list of banks/gov employees. There are more. Now, just google and find out how much all of these people have been paid, even DURING AND AFTER the financial crisis which they are responsible for.
Monsanto, which is trying to control the food market by using patented GMO crops and animals: Linda Fisher: Worked for EPA, Dupont and Monsanto. Conflict of interest much?
MIchael Taylor: Worked for Monsanto and FDA
Margaret Miller: Worked for Monsanto and FDA
Roger Beachy: Worked for Monsanto and USDA
Hillary Clinton: Worked for Rose Law Firm- Rose Law Firm represents Monsanto, Tyson foods and Walmart.
Donald Rumsfeld: President of G. D. Searle (which is owned by Monsanto)
Clarence Thomas: Former lawyer for Monsanto. Now Supreme Court Judge
Ann Veneman: Former head of USDA: Former Director of Calgene, Inc- subsidiary of Monsanto
Tom Vilsack: Former Iowa Governor and leading advocate for Monsanto: USDA
Stephen Ramsey: Formerly environmental enforcement for the Department of Justice: Now Corporate Environmental Programs at General Electric
Michael Friedman: former Acting Commissioner of FDA: Then became Senior Vice President of Searle (subsidiary of Monsanto)
Luther Val Giddings: former USDA biotechnology regulater: Then became Vice President for Food & Agriculture of the Biotechnology Industry Organization
Lidia Watrud: Formerly worked for Monsanto: Worked for USDA: Now works for EPA
William Reilly: Formerly EPA: Dupont Board of Directors: Also Conoco Board of Directors
This also is just a short list. Do a google on how much these people get paid, and how many problems/disasters these companies are responsible for.
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Condoleezza Rice: Secretary of State and National Security Advisor: From 1989 through March 1991, Rice served on President George H.W. Bush’s National Security Council staff, serving as director; senior director of Soviet and East European affairs; and, special assistant to the president for national security affairs: She was on the board of directors for the Chevron Corporation (right before she started work for Bush), also on boards for Charles Schwab Corporation and the Transamerica Corporation.
Dick Cheney: Secretary of Defense: Then CEO of Haliburton: Then Vice President
Andrew Zausner: U.S. Department of Energy: Then VP of Pennzoil Board of Directors: Lobbyist for Pennzoil
Shirley Neff: Economist for Shell Oil:Then President of Association of Oil Pipelines:Then Senate Energy and Natural Resources: Lobbyist for Goldwyn International Strategies
Theresa Fariello: Department of Energy: Occidental petroleum: Exxon Mobil lobbyist
Donald Evans: CEO Tom Brown Inc (oil and natural gas company) US Secretary of Commerce
Christine Todd Whitman: Administrator EPA (she's the one who said 911 ground zero air was safe, and refuses to acknowledge the thousands of people who have developed new respiratory problems at and around ground zero) : Her lobbying company lobbies for FMC (a chemical company responsible for 136 poisoned Superfund sites): Co-chair and spokesperson for the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition (pro nuclear group funded by the Nuclear Energy Institute) Governor of New Jersey and decreased the budget for Department for Environmental Protection.
Ken Duberstein: Reagan White House Chief of Staff: VP of lobbying firm Timmons & Company- Some of their clients-American Petroleum Institute, Chrysler, Teva Pharmaceuticals and VISA. Some of the boards he has been on and is still on: American Stock Exchange, Brookings Institution, Conocophillips, Council on Foreign Relations, Boeing Company, Federal National Mortgage Ass., Dell, Fannie Mae,
John Podesta: One of the biggest lobbying firms, Podesta Group (some of their clients-Wal-Mart, BP, Lockheed Martin, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (representing major American coal producers, utility companies, and railroads), Bank of America, big pharma Merck, National Ass. of Broadcasters, NPR, Sallie Mae, : White House Chief of Staff:
David Marin: Republican Staff Director for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: Lobbyist with John Podesta
Daniel Meyer: former assistant to President Bush for legal affairs: lobbyist for BP
Cory Gardner: Colorado Congressman: Committee Assignments: Subcommittee on Energy and Power, Subcommittee on Environment and Economy, subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations: pushes to keep subsidising oil and gas companies, pushes to open more Federal Land to oil and natural gas drilling, pushed to lighten regulations for arctic drilling (one of his biggest fundraisers was Dan Meyer (lobbyist for BP)
To see how harshly people opposed to oil/natural gas are treated, check out Tim DeChristopher's story http://www.bidder70.org/ . He's been sentenced to two years in prison for fraudulently bidding at an illegitimate oil and gas auction on National Park lands in Utah.
Lisa Barry: Boeing company: AOL Time Warner: Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration at the Department of Commerce: Office of the U.S. Trade Representative: International Public Policy, AOL Time Warner Inc.: Chevron Lobbyist
Joe Barton: Chairman of the House Committee on Energy & Commerce: Barton is additionally responsible for both the first electricity deregulation legislation to pass a House subcommittee, and for legislation which deregulated the natural gas industry. :
Barton apologizes to BP for Obama "shakedown"
He did retract the apology the next day, in fear of being tarred and feathered.
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Distilled down, this whole mess might sound like this:
"I do not support Romney or Obama. They are both bought off by the same cabal of international corporations and banks. George Bush and Cheney should be tried for war crimes and Obama should be impeached. Remember they work for us we do not work for them."
from Jesse Ventura - The Official Facebook Page
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Two days--no replys to your "expose". (edited--the two responses above came in while typing this).
Politicians--both Repub and Donk--tell us how great these public servants are--and most of them ARE well qualified in the industry. Would you expect them to NOT go back to an industry they are well-qualified in? Perhaps go to monastery?
Perhaps you would prefer that people NOT have any experience in an industry when they are appointed by big government? That hasn't worked out too well, has it?
ESPECIALLY for our boy at the top!
I can see the libbie-approved want ads now--
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Position: Head of the Department of __. Applicant will be responsible directing an agency with an annual budget of billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of employees, and will set policy affecting millions of Americans. Successful applicants must have NO EXPERIENCE in this field. Ties to current administration required.
I thought Obozo was going to NOT allow people to lobby for several years after leaving office, and promised to not hire lobbyists. Just more campaign lies rhetoric.
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Sounds about right Grassman and Botto. Yes Self Banished, rats in a maze.
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Perhaps you would prefer that people NOT have any experience in an industry when they are appointed by big government?
Wow Jim, I thought even you would see the problem that all of this is.
Do I want people who are supposed to be watching out for us going through revolving doors of the people they are supposed to be protecting us from? Hell no. And I don't want our government being run by anyone other than we the people. Connect some dots Jim.
Robert Rubin :1993-1995. 1999 Rubin and Summers repealed Glass Steagall 1999 He goes to work for Citigroup-Citigroup shareholders suffered losses of more than 70% since Mr. Rubin joined the firm-Mr. Rubin was reportedly critical to securing the latest federal bailout of Citi -- $20 billion in preferred shares plus taxpayers taking on most of the risk in a $306 billion portfolio of dodgy assets. This is on top of the $25 billion in Citi preferred shares that taxpayers bought in October. 1999-2008 Robert Rubin made a total of $115 million since 1999, not including stock options. Rubin asked the US Treasury Department to not downgrade Enron's rating before it collapsed. Larry Summers asked for no cap restrictions on Executive bonuses for the bailout. ------------- And do ya really want to get into the Iraq invasion aspect? What with Condoleezza being so involved with Chevron, Cheney so involved with Haliburton, and then there's Bush...
Funny coincidence I'm sure, but guess which oil company was the very first one who got access to Iraq oil? With permission from the Bush administration of course. Although it had been giving illegal kickbacks for Iraqi oil while Saddam was under sanctions with the Oil For Food program. Which oil company was it? hmmmmmm
It's a big effing club, and we ain't in it.
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Ros, just stop it. As long as someone makes huge sums of money, it's ok. There's nothing wrong with our military laying down their lives to clear the way for profits to be made by Corporate America. They been doing it for years. Just close your eyes, hum KOOM BYA and buy stocks in that company.
Perhaps go to monastery? 
Remember boys and girls,