Guess The Politician... And Follow The Money
A few days ago we presented a roster of the top contributors to Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign as reported by OpenSecrets. Today we have done the same for two other candidates, representing two previous election cycles: 2008 and 2004. The first table shows Romney's key contributors to date. The other two are the blacklined candidates. We are confident everyone can guess who they are, but just in case they are presented unredacted below the chart. It is ironic that nothing really changes at the end of the day in terms of whose bidding is ultimately performed by the president, whoever it may be. We have highlighted those Romney donors who are identical to previous campaign cycles.
For the 3 confused people out there, here is the same chart but unredacted .
Source: OpenSecrets here, here and here.
And due to popular request, here is John McCain '08, whom Goldman liked about 75% less than O'Bama.
Here are some relatively pertinent words on the matter from Jon Stewart from circa 4 years ago (h/t nolsgrad).
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There is NO doubt about it...we have the best politicians that money can buy.
Ron Paul or bust.
The second one is Obama. Third one is Bush.
Does Paul take donations in gold, because if he does, he just made some money during the Asian open.
Just bet where Goldman gives the most! It's that simple! :)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/presenting-mitt-romneys-top-campaign-contr...
Gold, man, either just sold of, or we are going to hit $1700 tomorrow.
Can someone please explain wtf the US Government is doing contributing to anyone's campaign funding? Unless of course, it's everyone's campaign funding...
It has to be said though, as far as it goes, National Amusements certainly got their money's worth this year. I've been splitting my sides listening to these clowns for well, just too long now...
Some guy who works for the USDA and contributes gets listed as US Gov. Same with the rest of the groups. Have to do it that way or else some company could funnel contributions through their employees and never show on the radar screen. The Government is contributing even bigger right now as the ESF plunge protection team is ramping futures to make three of three primaries with overnight ramp jobs. Ron Paul loses a lot of potential support from the people with two minute attention spans when they say "What problems with the economy? Isn't the DOW up big today?" This will happen EVERY election until the nomination is in the bag. I wish there was an ETF that went bullish for pre-primary futures.
"Some guy who works for the USDA and contributes gets listed as US Gov. Same with the rest of the groups."
Correct.
I would call it double counting of real economic earnings to actually spend...but what the hell, they're just printing at leisure now.
So...where's my check? ;-)
Sickening.
"Sickening". Ditto.
I guess people in the airforce and navy are smarter than the people in the army as they are not listed on the contributor roster.
US Army $169,020
US Dept of Defense $146,356
US Government $202,938
US Government $513,308
US Government $295,786
US Dept of Defense $279,157
US Dept of state $225,150
All taxpayer money, the Government is outofcontrol!
Lehman Brothers and Wachovia were contributors to Bush and McCain, but haven't given anything to Romney. Is it something against Mormons?
I don't see Bear Stearns except for Bush in 2004. They must be putting their money on Gingrich and Santorum.
Look under JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo....
Thanks - saw that too: NY close bid 1644 - 24 Hr spot as of this post ready to kiss 1660.
24 Hr USD index below close and trying to climb back.
Dr. Paul must have gone over well with debate viewers.
I don't think so, but he's said many times a substantial portion of his savings is in gold, and he started saving the moment is was legal to do so again (e.g. he was buying in the mid 70s and probably has entry positions that are sub-$100 from that time.)
well that ices it...
Whichever a55hole wins now will probably sign a new bill to confiscate all gold now (starting with Dr. Paul's stash)...
Not to quibble, but the price of gold has never been below $100 since ownership of it was legalized in the USA on January 1, 1975.
The reporting is all over the place. There's individual contributions, employee contributions, campaign contributions and PAC contributions.
The US Government was the tell, However, AIG is not on that list. AIG gave the Obambi either a $104K fix or a $130K fix or a $112K fix or a $101K fix (I had a link - but can't find it - saying AIG chummed the Obambi a $800K fix). Anyway you look at it - a less than a million bucks bribe for a 30 Billion return - Obambi sure must have a real purty mouth (an' be able to deliver the slurpy sweet like a crack whore paying the sincerest homage ever for a dime rock)!
I didn't cheat, honest!
BTW: The recap on fox news showed the results of a twitter poll - Dr. Paul got the green (honest responses) for all categories - all the others had [only] deep reds for most of the categories (why is Dr. Paul not center stage - they always got him near the bus station). [Should be in a] Sanitarium lied. Said SS was in a deficit - SS is running surplus - the only defict in SS are the UST's the congress keeps swapping for the cash).
Almost expected Flip Romney to unzip a "skin" suit to reveal an "Obama" hiding inside.
God Speed Dr Paul!
@Eco1996
"The second one is Obama. Third one is Bush."
Thanks. Now who are those other two dopey bastards out there?
The bets are hedged, it's heads we win tails you lose, the oligarchy is firmly in control.
I go vomit...
I would guess the same. University of California and Harvard as donors....has to be Obuma. I noticed it takees a lot more money to influence a Democrat than a Republican. What's up with that?
Wise man. I added a Ron Paul column to it. It is a bit strange that so many veterans (who would likely not immediately fiscally benefit from us ending the empire) support him.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9geg2EXP1Gk/TxTGvhWhLgI/AAAAAAAABtc/MhFpBf_ILp...
They would benefit from not allowing the executive branch to widow and orphan their family during another "intervention" or kinetic action" and they know it.
So not dying in some foreign shit stain conflict isn't an immediate fiscal benefit now?
Another pay off.
Pandora Style Beads
What a bunch of cocksuckers in the crowd at the Myrtle beach GOP debate tonight! They cheered and lusted for more war as all the empty suits on stage (except Ron Paul) spoon fed them earfulls of lies, wickedness, and bullshit. Wolves in sheep's clothing all of them. Only Ron Paul argued for the golden rule and he was booed for it! Fox news graciously allotted time for such booing WTF is the matter with people? Once again we sit at the tip of financial armagedon and once again they are trying to take us to war.
Time to go back and live like it was in Deadwood. Sir.
We may be headed back without a choice. Wouldn't be all that bad really.
We just finish watching debate. They're making Ron Paul look weak on defense.
He's right that there should be a golden rule on foreign policy, but so many think if we don't kill them over there first, then they'll come here and kill us. So Ron Paul needs to show us he's strong too and he'd kill. Make a stronger point of this. Because right now some perceive there are lots of scary terrorists who are trying to kill us and Ron Paul won't protect us from them. It would be better if next time they ask him question on foreign policy he talks of who he'd kill, for the blood thirsty. He did it a little tonight when he talked about Osama bin Laden but it was mixed up.
Myself and Austin Powers just woke up from being cryogenically frozen for the past 6 years. We turned on the TV and there was a man from Kenya calling himself the president delivering a speech about hope and change from a Teleprompter! What the fuck happened?
the ship of hope hit the
iceberg of change and now
change is sinking hope.
america is just ireland housing
another of the queens printing
presses and without the brogue.
You died in the freezer.
You're in hell now.
I can't understand how $16+ trillion of debt is not considered going bust already.
Because a dollar ain't what it used to be.
How long before all debt equals the entire worlds GDP?
Are we there yet, are we there yet?...lol.
Good question
Way past that (i think)
By now it’s likely @ multiples of the world's GDP
(but who’s counting?)
I think we're already there. The multiplier effect is actually division my man.
Its just how they think ;-)
I've heard that all the debt & derivatives pile (including unfunded liabilities) is valued somewhere around a quadrillion dollars, while the world GDP is something like $70 trillion...
I've also heard that the Rothschild's private family fortune is estimated at around $500 trillion...
Its an impressive amount of air pressure isn't it?
I percieve it the other way; more of a vacuum. Like a black hole.
you can't understand because it is incomprehensible,
the terms don't mean what you think they mean. they
mean whatever the bankers want them to mean and only
when they want them to mean what they want. the rabbit hole.
.
it is so because a sovereign issuer of fiat currency
can never go "bust". one of these has the legal right to
print the money, or create it digitally, to the point of
devaluation where it becomes nearly worthless, but this
is not the same thing as going bust as an actor within the
system would experience. in that case there is a systemic
resolution of debts and assets. in the meta systemic case
there is just devaluation of everything and over time till
the system is dropped instantly. everybody goes bust at once.
the sovereign then is faced with the choice of dissolution
or re establishment, or re volution and no one here has
seen the likes of it not to mention the dollar is a global
currency. the other thing is the debt in the system is
the actual money in the system, that is the debt that can
and will be paid. the rest of the debt, which was spent or
is being spent, was the money but much of it is not in
any circulation and is instead sunk into assets, positions,
outsourced out of the national economy. it is beyond comprehension
what goes on in this global currency war, for me anyway.
the trend however seems to indicate that the debt money system
is disconnecting from the realities of local economies in that
the purpose of the money system as it is sold to the people,
business of production and services, has been rehypothecated
to enable value extraction at a distance. like a leveraged buy
out of the entire system is taking place? seems like stealing to me.
.
fiat money is a confidence game based on the bond markets and such.
time. a time ponzi on top of a speculative growth ponzi, it works
until it doesn't?
Hi Long John Silver,
When you own the Petrodollar system you can defy accounting. At least temporarly.
Bitchez
My dad always said that the 2 lowest forms of life on the planet were bankers and lawyers.
Further explanation here:
http://thereaganwing.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/why-ron-paul-supporters-se...
Even with Ron Paul, we will have a huge battle ahead. Without him it will be far worse.
Ron Paul is a Christian Reconstructionist Theocratic nutbball. I'm surprised he isn't getting more traction in South Carolina. Protestant extremists who form the core of GOP primary voters are fighting amoung themselves at this point. The oddly favor Santorum when they have a shot at establishing Old Testament law once RP's minions control state governments.
I think the problem is that most Americans do like their government secular...or at least they may not care if gays get stoned and women have no access to abortion, but they do draw the line at the death penalty for adultery.
Hard to fuck the neighbor's wife if you need to worry about public stoning.
BWAHAHAHA!!!
Ron Paul touts endorsement of pastor who defends death penalty for gays, delinquent children & adulteryhttp://wthrockmorton.com/2011/12/28/kayserendorsemen/
and
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/02/ron-paul-s-christian-re...
Further explanation here:
http://thereaganwing.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/why-ron-paul-supporters-se...
Even with Ron Paul, we will have a huge battle ahead. Without him it will be far worse.
but but we must follow the money... And GS think three GOP candidates/leaders couldn't match a Dem one?
Or was it affected by inflation?
i think its over for paul tonight
his debate performance was not his best to say the least and this was probably his last chance to place a dent on the romney juggernaut, which he failed to do.
too bad his foreign policy is the most logical one, but he just did a shoddy job of articulating it tonight and south carolina loves the military.
now i think that pathetic "i worked in the pvt sector" bitch has it all sown up
what a shame
RIP RP
No. Not over.
He'll launch his third party candidacy after the South Carolina primary.
Another Money Bomb for the new effort which will blow holes in his supporters' pockets.
BWAHAHAHA!!!
fuck em
i'm feelin the news feed is sllllooooooow
Talk about ROI!!
No shit! Many of the pirates....I mean financial firms get 1,000s of % return.
By the way, the bottom is in on silver, as I have traded a big position (in my finacial capacity at least) for a pimped out finished basement. I want to fiddle while this shit burns in my music studio.
The zombies will never think of looking for you in there!
well, they did stop making records in the 60's....
I was thinking Haliburton would be in that list but I guess US Department of Defense is close enough. I notice we also have US Government in there.
Not sure if this is a good sign for the contributors though.... Look how many no longer exist or have been Zombiefied...
I expected the banking slobs but that stuck out like a sore thumb. Something doesn't seem right about the government contributing to itself.
Remember that little checkoff box on your 1040? The one about designating $1 of your taxes to go to the next presidential campaign?
Ta-da.
That maybe explains part of the US Government, but DoD and State Dept? This should not be allowed.
Thanks that's why we visit ZeroHedge...
Acctually, US Tax Payer would be more approproiate...
It's $3 nowadays. Inflation sucks.
Just goes to show You how government starts to feed on itself. I am sure if you question any of these entities they will have rational justification for using public funds in campaign ads. All proof that governments need to be kept as small as absolutely necessary. As nothing more than a necessary evil.
We need to establish the voucher system Milton Friedman mentioned so many times. Maybe that way we can get them thinking and away from this compulsory brain washing we got going. That includes churches. No tax exemption for them. It makes other private schools uncompetitive.
Only if the churches can tax the government.
Separation of church and state.
If a church opens a school, then it is not a church anymore. It is a business, and it should be taxed accordingly.
Separation of church and state means get the church out of governing. Just like the Vatican influence did for over 300 years in Europe.
if the government opens a school it should get out of governing. separation of individual and state
yea, we really need less choice in the social engineering by the statists...
dumbshitforbrains
Perhaps you're not aware that many private schools are tax exempt.
The rich are famouns for their use of tax exempt status to benefit themselves.
There is a difference between charitible (deductible contributions) tax exempt and non-profit (no deductible contributions) tax exempt.
The rich who run non-profit tax exempt schools aren't competitive. They don't need to be.
Vochers won't solve much of anything. Poor or middle income parents couldn't make up the difference to send their kids to a good school if the school chose to set tuition above the voucher rate.
But when you present this information to the masses; 1/3 don't give a shit, 1/3 tell you that is how the system works, and the other 1/3 tell you "Shhhhhh! The game is on."
Shhhhhh! The game is on.
1/3 says We got to have faith in our government
1/3 They are smarter than us, so let them do their thing
1/3 USA number 1 Yeahhhhh
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that"
- George Carlin
Oh... we could go on...
"There ought to be a theoretical limit as to how stupid a person could actually be"
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter" ... Winston Churchill.
Let's have a constitutional republic instead. Oh wait.... Never mind
It was nice while it lasted
and vote.
I'm nitpicking here, but average does not equal 50% or half as the quote states. I think George meant to say median, but that kinda diminishes the joke's appeal.
Given how clever George was (RIP my good man) he'd likely get a chuckle out of its misinterpretation.
When you present this information to the masses:
1/3 says "We got to have faith in our government"
1/3 tells you "That is how the system works"
1/3 exhibit sudden-frontal-lobe-injury syndrome
So far I've counted 12 thirds. That's some fractionalization!
I dug the Carlin quote.
Fractional re-hypothecation
The ignorance is by choice. One tough lesson I have learned. People LIKE being a mushroom.
pods
Yup. Reminds me of a story from way back in the 1920's at the famous Algonquin Hotel round table, they used to sometimes play a word game in which someone would say a word and the next person had to immediately use it in a good sentence. One afternoon, a woman at the table carefully sounded out "horticulture". The next "player" was Dorothy Parker who immediately said, "You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think." So true.
Stupid people are happy. If You are smart, You will be lonely, perpetually frustrated, ridiculed, and ostracized.
....Leader...Tell me where to go....Tell me what to do......
So true and woe to you if you try to educate them.. Mushrooms get hostile if you turn on a light..
These were/are your choices.
Choose wisely ;-)
false dilemma ‘;-)
...other more colorful expressions, withheld.
I will let them go for you then...
It's like my left testicle fighting with my right one prior to fucking.
Thing is, with that fucking, there is a good outcome (unless I missed something in your analogy, being ballless and all...)