By SueN
- Show live from Chicago.
- Guests:
- Senator Bernie Sanders, (I-VT).
- Topics:
- "Brunch With Bernie"
- 'Anything Goes' Friday.
- Bumper Music:
- Can't Get Enough of You Baby, Smash Mouth.
- Live Like We're Dying, Kris Allen.
- Someday, Rob Thomas.
- Anything Goes, Tony Bennett.
- Let's Get It started In Here, Black Eyed Peas.
- Crazy, Gnarls Barkley.
- I'm Not Over, Carolina Liar.
- Anything Goes (Chinese), from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
- Thank God It's Friday, Love and Kisses (video).
- Ghost Chickens in the Sky, Sean Morey.
- What a Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong.
- Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
- Quote: "The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.". -- Abraham Lincoln.
- Article: Financial Reform Statement on Senate Passage of Wall Street Reform by Senator Bernie Sanders.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement after the Senate tonight voted 59 to 39 for a major Wall Street reform bill:
“As a result of the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior of Wall Street, this country was plunged into a horrendous recession. While this bill does not go as far as I would like, it is a strong beginning in the effort to reregulate huge financial institutions and to bring transparency to their often nefarious activities.
“I am especially proud that in this bill there is a major provision I authored which, for the first time, will lift the veil of secrecy at the Federal Reserve and give the American people an understanding of where trillions of their tax dollars went in the Wall Street bailout.
“I am disappointed that we could not garner the necessary votes to lower interest rates on credit cards or to begin the process of breaking up the largest financial institutions in this country which are the cause of so many of our problems. I intend to continue that effort until we succeed.” -
"The law locks up both man and woman,
Who steals the goose from off the common,
But lets the greater felon loose,
Who steals the common from the goose."
--Anonymous
