Biden economic team: Straight from Wall Street

President-elect Joe Biden announced the second major group of cabinet and White House appointments Sunday and Monday, including most of his economic team, drawn almost entirely from the major financial institutions and hedge funds.

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{A book could be written about Tanden’s role in promoting right-wing social policies and the defense of American imperialism while using the language of liberalism and “progressive” politics.}

{Bernie Sanders opposed chained CPI at the time, but Tanden has continued to support it, while admitting that it is regressive, as a necessary element in a budget “compromise” with Republicans. This, of course, is exactly the posture advocated by Joe Biden throughout the presidential campaign, when he claimed he would be able to find “common ground” with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and other congressional reactionaries.}

This is the jab Johnstone talks about. This is the slower Wolff just expressed in this mornings Economic Update. Until the new deal is eviscerated.

{According to journalist Glenn Greenwald, Tanden argued during the US-NATO attack on Libya in 2011 “that Libyans should be forced to turn over large portions of their oil revenues to repay the U.S. for the costs incurred in bombing Libya, on the grounds that Americans will support future wars only if they see that the countries attacked by the U.S. pay for the invasions.” This anticipated the position taken by Donald Trump in relation to Syria and Iraq.}

In other words. We're being forced into blood resources at the whim of manufactured murder. Including our own families to being sacrificed. If only fuel flex could incorporate that blood into the mixture also, they'd probably collect and scrape that off the ground too.

{The six economic nominees announced Monday include four women, two African Americans (Rouse and Adeyemo) and an Indian-American (Tanden). While this is celebrated endlessly by the Biden camp and the media as a cabinet that “looks like America,” the reality is that many of those selected are multi-millionaires. All are vehement defenders of the capitalist system and the “right” of the giant corporations, banks, hedge funds and a few hundred billionaires to control the economic resources of America.

Similarly, when Biden named his seven-person communications team on Sunday, the main focus of media coverage was that all seven were women, three of them black and one Latino. Nearly all are veterans of the Obama administration, meaning they already have extensive practice in lying to the American people and to the world about drone missile assassinations, illegal wars in Libya, Syria and Yemen, global spying by the US intelligence apparatus, and other crimes and misdeeds of Washington.}

I'm sure Glen Ford will have something to say about these minority elite.

{The main significance of the communications appointments is the integration of individuals from the more liberal wing of the party, including Karine Jean-Pierre, formerly of Move-on, Symone Sanders, who worked for Bernie Sanders in 2016, and Pilar Tobar of America’s Voice, a liberal immigration reform group. They have all moved seamlessly from the supposed “anti-corporate” wing of the Democratic Party to serve in an administration that is utterly dedicated to serving the interests of big business.}

When the party changes the people you thought would change the party. Had enough yet? I have stated time and time again how the type of lip service these people spew has been used against us for the better part of 5 decades now. These people, even if they are genuine, come to end up being simulated into the agenda or silently phased out. A select few become professional lips service for self power and income via books and speeches in the future. In which only then they might allow some small degree of truth come out about the operations of DC to acquire more notoriety for further gains and appearances on news programs.