We Know How The Sausage is Made. Doesn't Make It Any Less Upsetting

Mick Mulvaney is running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and deliberately running it into the ground. We know that, and the administration hasn't been hiding its contempt for consumer rights and protection. But it's astonishing to hear him not only admit but state as a positive fact that bankers should donate to Congressional campaigns if they want to get what they want and that, as a Congressman, he wouldn't meet with lobbyists unless they donated to his campaigns. They're not even hiding it anymore. They're for sale to the highest bidder. And if you're a Trump supporting host, it would be interesting for you to go on the air and explain to your listeners how this is good for them, how the fact that the administration is flat out saying it wants to take protection away from you and give Wall Street and big business whatever they want (if they pay) is somehow good for your audience, which is likely not entirely made up of millionaires and billionaires. (New York Times)

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