Time to give up hope for positive change for the proles..........
Billionaire Bankster Penny Pritzker Breaks into Obama's Cabinet
By Greg Palast
You made fun of me when I suggested that President Barack Obama would nominate a confessed bank scammer, a loan-sharking mortgage predator, to his cabinet. But thar she blows!
Today, Obama has named Penny Pritzker Secretary of Commerce. As the President says, It's a milestone: the first female fraudster to hold that post. No longer will criminal bankers have to lobby the administration - because now they'll have one of their own in the Cabinet.
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Though not unexpected, Pritzker's nomination is a distressing one for unions and their supporters. Pritzker is a board member at Hyatt Hotels, which is being boycotted over its labor practices, and was a member of Chicago's Board of Education, embracing the policies that led the city's teachers to strike in 2012. Hyatt and Pritzker say there's no issue:
Hyatt manager turned heat lamps on picketing workers? How Martha and Lorena Reyes were just coincidentally fired for questionable violations of break policy right after they complained about pictures being posted with their heads photoshopped onto bikini-clad bodies? How they're not the only ones to experience similar coincidences between speaking out and being suspended or fired?
How the Boston and Cambridge Hyatts had their longtime housekeepers train low-paid temp workers under false pretexts, then fired the longtime housekeepers, revealing that the temps were their replacements?
Also trailing Pritzker during confirmation hearings will be the 2001 failure of Superior Bank, then the nation's largest bank failure in a decade, where Pritzker was chairman from 1991 to 1994.
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Penny Pritzker to be nominated for Commerce secretary - chicagotribune.com