{"id":187756,"date":"2011-03-11T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/11\/nope-no-corruption-here-none-at-all\/"},"modified":"2011-03-11T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T04:08:00","slug":"nope-no-corruption-here-none-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/11\/nope-no-corruption-here-none-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Nope, No Corruption Here.  None At All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allegedly Democratic Co-Chair of Obama&#8217;s deficit reduction (aka cat food) commission, Erskine Bowles, was  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-09\/bowles-says-he-kept-morgan-stanley-job-u-s-debt-plan-separate.html\">recommending changes to Social Security that would likely lead to its privatization while on the board of directors of Morgan Stanley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Erskine Bowles, co-chairman of President Barack Obama\u2019s debt-reduction commission, said his job as a Morgan Stanley (MS) director didn\u2019t influence his work on the panel\u2019s recommendations for balancing U.S. spending, which said taxes are sapping the competitiveness of companies.<\/p>\n<p>He and the commission\u2019s co-chief, Alan Simpson, told an audience of bankers, investors and executives at an Economic Club of New York lunch meeting March 7 that the country may face a crisis if it doesn\u2019t rein in the debt. Bowles, 65, has been a member of the bank\u2019s board since the end of 2005.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt didn\u2019t have any effect on me at all,\u201d he said in an interview after the lunch, when asked if his work for New York- based Morgan Stanley influenced the commission\u2019s December proposals. \u201cWe tried to gore every ox we could.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also said that &#8220;The check is in the mail, this won&#8217;t hurt a bit, I&#8217;ll respect you in the morning, and I won&#8217;t cum in your mouth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Note also that Barack Obama was the one <b>what hired these guys<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allegedly Democratic Co-Chair of Obama&#8217;s deficit reduction (aka cat food) commission, Erskine Bowles, was recommending changes to Social Security that would likely lead to its privatization while on the board of directors of Morgan Stanley: Erskine Bowles, co-chairman of President Barack Obama\u2019s debt-reduction commission, said his job as a Morgan Stanley (MS) director didn\u2019t influence &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,970,1004,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-corruption","category-finance","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}