We need a president who will stand up for the CFPB and get it back into fighting shape. It is too important to be allowed to disintegrate. Joe Sestak Read Quote
I have seen how payday lenders and check cashing outfits set up in towns around military bases to take advantage of young service members, whose starting salaries are barely over $20,000 per year. Joe Sestak Read Quote
Before the CFPB, there was no single agency or entity within the federal government tasked with protecting Americans from predatory or negligent practices of banks, credit card companies, mortgage lenders, payday lenders, credit rating agencies and other financial service businesses. Joe Sestak Read Quote
Created by Congress as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, the CFPB was a direct response to the financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession that began with the subprime mortgage debacle and the unraveling of Lehman Brothers investment bank. Joe Sestak Read Quote
I believe we should be investing in the potential of nuclear technology based on thorium, to end the use of plutonium and lead to much safer nuclear power plants, less toxic nuclear waste, and less opportunities for nuclear weapons proliferation. Joe Sestak Read Quote
During my years in the Navy and in the White House, I was involved in assessing how a war with Iran would go. In summary: It would be ugly. Joe Sestak Read Quote
Launching a ground war against Iran would require hundreds of thousands of troops for a ‘regime change followed by nation-building’ operation, as we attempted in Iraq. Iran has a much more modern military, more than double Iraq’s population, and almost four times the landmass. Joe Sestak Read Quote
