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Avenue? they, who? meaning the occupation oh, completely. completely. those that russell simmons is talking to, the people who are supporting your amendment. just, until they get there, that s where the change is going to come from. let me ask you a question. let s say there s all these disparate communities, right, from all these different places that want to get money out of politics. for whatever their motivation is, whatever their organization may be, whether it s conservative or liberal, or whatever it is. what would be the impact i ll ask you this, jimmy, if those groups and all these disparate occupations, portland, new york, l.a., wherever, everybody converged on washington, d.c. so instead of occupying, you know, and disrupting the secretaries who are trying to get to work in lower manhattan or disrupting the coffee shop in portland or whatever it is, which the intention is there, but it s disruptive to people that are, you know, they re like, why is this why m ....
what we do is, number one, we say that corporations aren t people. it s clear to anyone who looks at it that the framers of the constitution never intended to give them the rights that individuals have. number two, congress has the ability to regulate corporations. they can t claim constitutional defended rights to protect them against the public interest. and number three, for-profit corporations cannot spend their money in our elections. but what about this because i ve seen in this large corporations where i ll pay so you re a big shot executive at big shot company one, two, three. i m going to pay you $30 million, but i m going to pay you $30 million under the understanding that you personally will spend that $30 million on politicians. it won t big shot corporation one, two, three will never be seen. in other words, why try to control the flow of money and who s what and why not simply say, or go with what i call the ncaa rules, which is if you take money if a private so ....
The country. is it being felt in the capital? on this issue? you know, it is and it isn t. i mean, i have to say, as much as people here inside washington, for example, were not surprised that the super committee failed, i think that real people outside of washington were surprised, and i was surprised that people here in washington didn t feel more of an accountability and a consequence to that. and i say that to say, similarly, when we talk about getting money out and the sort of increasing strength that that has a message and as a desire of the american people, folks here in washington are still a bit out of step, and we re still hearing the same conversations, you know, we re still hearing, we ve got to cut spending. we re still hearing, we can t tax millionaires. so the conversation hasn t changed, certainly not on the conservative side, to where it should, based on what we re seeing around the country and the kinds of things we re hearing and these ideas that are coming forward ....
A lot of the aggressive stuff we did. i m all for it. my hat goes off to judge rakov. he s a critically important guy. were you to be attorney general today, what would your view be of either prosecuting or investigating jon corzine or mf global relative to the blending of firm assets and customer assets? let me be careful here for the following reasons. john has been a friend. i ve always liked him. i want that to be out there, full disclosure, which is a critically important thing in every domain. i still have a hard time believing that john ever would have sanctioned using customer segregated money, the money that is in customer accounts to cover margin calls for mf global. if that happened, people should go to jail. it is simply not acceptable. now, there may be paperwork that permitted them to dip into those funds, if it was properly collateralized. this moment of clirisis, it s hd to see how that happened. i think john is an honorable guy, it s an aggressive trader. t ....
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