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Goldman Sachs Subsidiary Ted Cruz Trying to Kill Consumer Financial Protections
How does Ted Cruz celebrate the fifth anniversary of Wall Street reform and the fourth birthday of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?
By introducing a bill to abolish these populist pro-consumer reforms.
It’s no surprise that the Senator who has raked in over $82,000 in donations from Goldman Sachs employees and the company PAC should be beating the drum against Wall Street Reform.
But it certainly goes against his remarks on the campaign trail, where he pretends to beat the populist drum, decrying crony capitalism, claiming the Republicans aren’t merely the lapdogs of the mega-rich, and even trying to co-opt the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Read more: http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/30670/goldman-sachs-ted-cruz-cfpb
