Gene Sperling

[tinselwolverine]

I can't believe I never heard of this guy...and he was born in Ann Arbor, too...

 

[redandguilty]

I've never heard of him....but this must be nice:

"According to Bloomberg News, Sperling earned $887,727 from Goldman Sachs in 2008 for advice on its charitable giving"

 

[Michchamp]

I love how this is being reported as though it's somehow newsworthy.

instead of any actual reporting about what the sequester deal means by the numbers, we get this sideshow of a sideshow.

bob woodward appears to be more and more of a clown, the more he opens his mouth or puts a pen to paper. the onion had a good send-up of him.

also, looks like everything Sperling has touched has been a disaster for the US economy, & especially US taxpayers... but has been a goldmine for wall street:

Sperling was also a principal negotiator with then-Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers of the Financial Modernization Act of 1999, also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Gramm-Leach-Bliley repealed large portions of the depression-era Glass-Steagall Act allowing banks, securities firms and insurance companies to merge.

Also in 1999, together with United States Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky, Sperling successfully negotiated and concluded the China-World Trade Organization agreement in Beijing, paving the way for China to enter the WTO in 2001.

From 2009 to 2011, Sperling served as a counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, advising on fiscal, budget, tax, job creation and small business issues.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Sperling#cite_note-10
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[tinselwolverine]

bob woodward appears to be more and more of a clown, the more he opens his mouth or puts a pen to paper. the onion had a good send-up of him.

It was OK; it wasn't as good as it would have been if I had written it.

 

[zyxt9]

I applaud u for this. We need more dems and reps alike to call out guys in their own ranks instead of it always being about how bad the other side is. If people focused more on taking care of their own instead of pointing to flaws of others we might actually become more open and accepting, not to mention civilized.

I would love to see more of that from each and every group. Doubt it will happen, but always good to hope for a better future, no? There are obviously enough bad apples to go around.

 

[redandguilty]

I applaud u for this. We need more dems and reps alike to call out guys in their own ranks instead of it always being about how bad the other side is. If people focused more on taking care of their own instead of pointing to flaws of others we might actually become more open and accepting, not to mention civilized.

I would love to see more of that from each and every group. Doubt it will happen, but always good to hope for a better future, no? There are obviously enough bad apples to go around.

...until you get to where the Reps are and people are calling out others in their own ranks for not being hard line enough.

 

[zyxt9]

Good point