Richard Holbrooke
- February 2001 to July 2008 Mr. Holbrooke sat on the board of AIG. This is the same AIG that has recieved billions os US taxpayer dollars to keep from going bankrupt. AIG is one of several parties (public and private) who's business practices were directly responsible for the current global recession. It's curious to me that anyone would give Mr. Holbrooke a job. He and the rest of the board of directors are directly responsible for the business practices. He should be living under a bridge not advicing President Obama. Mr. Holbrooke currently holds the positions of "Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan".
- One of the four founding members of the Quadrangle Group. The Quadrangle Group is under investigation by the SEC for a kickback scheme involing the NYS pension fund. He was named as the "senoir executive" of the SEC complaint against the Quadrangle Group. In February 2009 he was hired as Treasury Advisor, Head of the Auto Task Force even though he was and investor in the Cerberus Capital Management the owner of Chrysler.
- Is a self described Socialist has had a long relationship with radicals going all the way back to his youth. As a young man Ron was active in Habonim which is a progressive Labor Zionist youth movement. Starting at the age of 10, Ron attended Camp Galil. Camp Galil was a Labor Zionist movement summer camp. He attended it for 4 years and eventually became a counselor. Ron Bloom was initially hired to be the Senior Counselor to the U.S. President for Manufacturing Policy and was later hired (after Steven Rattner stepped down) as U.S. Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry. He recieved these positions even though his attitudes towards capitalism and the freemarket were well known and of public record. At the 2008 sixth annual Distressed Investing Conference held at the Union League Club Mr. Bloom was a speaker. He is quoted as stating during that conference:
"Generally speaking we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole poiunt is to game the system, to beat the market, or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money because they're convinced that there is a free lunch. We know this is largely about power, that it's an adults only, no limit game. We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend, you should get a dog."
Carol Browner
- She was hired as the Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy. Previously, she was one of 14 leaders of the socialist group Commission for a Sustainable World Society. The stated goal of this commision is for "global governance" and states rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change. Soon after her appointment by the Obama administration her biography was removed from the Socialist International's web page. The Socialist International is a organization that contains many of the world socialist democratic political parties. It organizes socialist political parties throughout the world and has traditionally worked against and been critical of U.S. policies. The Socialist International group includes Angola's MPLA. The MPLA with assistance of Soviet arms and Cuban troops won the Angolan civil war. It has stated that the Cap-and-Trade legislation does not do enough and is not restrictive enough. They are against the U.S.-Mexico border fence. They have stated that developed countries like the U.S. must decrease their consumption and suggest that economic limits that force a decline of the overall ecomony would be one good tool to achieve this.
