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May 17, 2011
The Ulster County Republicans in a Can't-Do America
Mitchell Langbert's Blog
Bruce Ratner pops up in a blog post about Ulster County Republicans and a history of American political cronyism.
Back in the day of the Second Bank of the United States, the precursor of today's Federal Reserve Bank, Whig politicians were on the Bank's payroll until Andrew Jackson, the equivalent of today's Ron Paul, abolished the bank and set the stage for the greatest economic expansion in world history. After the Civil War, Standard Oil captured a number of state legislators, much as Bruce Ratner and The New York Times recently utilized New York State's Empire State Development Corporation to evict law-abiding property owners for Ratner's and The Times's benefit.
Posted by eric at May 17, 2011 10:56 AM