Digby links to Dave Johnson…
Last week, in Tea Party Members VS Tea Party Wall Street Funders, I pointed out that Tea Party supporters expect their politicians to do something about Wall Street bailouts, lawbreaking and “too-big-to-fail” domination of the economy, but Tea Party candidates were receiving a great deal of funding from that very same Wall Street. This set up a potential conflict between Tea Party supporters and Tea Party politicians.
Obama’s supporters also hoped that he’d choke back corporate exploitation. Sadly, though, his government has spent a lot of time favouring its rich benefactors. This isn’t an amusing quirk of the Tea Party movement, it’s a tragedy of the corporatist state.
By the way, here’s a curious nugget from the ailing plutocracy. It’s hardly news that wealth and power can render one immune from justice. White-collared thieves and state officials have long been evading judgement as a matter of course. Even one step down the corporate ladder, it has been reported, you might find all men are equal under the law but – yeah, you guessed it – some are more equal than others…
A financial manager for wealthy clients will not face charges for a hit-and-run because it could jeopardise his job, it has been revealed.
Martin Joel Erzinger, 52, was set to face felony charges for running over a doctor who he hit from behind in his 2010 Mercedes Benz, and then speeding off.
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‘Felony convictions have some pretty serious job implications for someone in Mr. Erzinger’s profession, and that entered into it,’ [the District Attorney] said.
As opposed to all those other jobs that welcome nothing more than felony convictions.
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