Originally Posted By: IvyLeague
Originally Posted By: OakAsFan
This thread is living in the 1950s. The OP asks a simple question, which president would be better for the mob, GOP, or Democrat. Yet half the answers invoke union rackets, which have been largely dead for decades. The mob's only prayer today is a Republican president, because a) playing the stocks is the easiest way to get rich today, and b) they can not control the Democrat supported unions anymore. 2016, ladies and gentlemen. 2016.


If you want to just talk about today, then it's largely a moot point either way because significant, widespread mob political connections are a thing of the past. However, the union rackets, while certainly diminished, are not dead. Especially in New York. I could give you a list as long as your leg of labor racketeering cases involving the NY families alone from 2000 to the present. And it's no secret that New York is a Democrat town and unions are largely tied to them. But of course, you're likely not aware of most of that stuff because you clearly don't do your own research. Nor would you care because your entire motive in this thread has been to just defend Democrats. Seriously, go drool over that Hillary '16 poster above your bed because you contribute nothing to this thread.


Read the tread title. It's present tense. The OP is asking who would be more beneficial to the mob today. And the answer is a Republican, considering there is practically nothing Democrats can do for the mob today. There's a lot the GOP could do, however, with the mob's involvement with Wall Street in the past 30 years. And, one commenter here thinks we should regulate Wall Street even less and make it easier for the mob to infiltrate the stock market, among the other drastic results of deregulation.


"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea