{"id":537847,"date":"2010-04-21T13:40:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2010\/04\/resolved-democrats-republicans-both-take-huge-donations-from-wall-st\/39301\/"},"modified":"2010-04-21T13:40:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:40:59","slug":"resolved-democrats-republicans-both-take-huge-donations-from-wall-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/537847","title":{"rendered":"Resolved: Democrats, Republicans Both Take Huge Donations from Wall St"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans accuse<\/a> Democrats of being neck deep in the pockets of Wall Street. Democrats accuse<\/a> Republicans of being neck deep in the pockets of Wall Street. Who’s right? Everybody.<\/p>\n

Politicians often do this thing where they take a lot of money from people with a lot of money, and bankers do have a lot of money.* A cynic might call this practice “endemic.” It would seem more with the times to call it “bipartisan.” Let’s agree to drop the issue of who’s deeper in Wall Street’s pockets by clicking the graph below and moving on with the merits of reform.<\/p>\n

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*Financial industry profits, via Krugman<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Republicans accuse Democrats of being neck deep in the pockets of Wall Street. Democrats accuse Republicans of being neck deep in the pockets of Wall Street. Who’s right? Everybody. Politicians often do this thing where they take a lot of money from people with a lot of money, and bankers do have a lot of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}