Autism Is A Growing Business, Like Psychiatry

[From article]
During July 2008, nationally syndicated talk show host Michael Savage ignited a firestorm with his comments about autism, calling it "a fraud, a racket."
In follow-up statements, Savage explained his views as being "meant to boldly awaken parents and children to the medical community's attempt to label too many children or adults as 'autistic.'"
While Savage's language was blunt, his concerns over the gross over-diagnosis of autism are valid.
Of course, the U.K. banned Savage from entry, in no small part because of his controversial views on autism, proving -- yet again -- that British governments, both Labour and Conservative alike, are incapable of tolerating serious critical and controversial thoughts.
The autism lobby is very vocal, and their intimidation of politicians -- especially in the center of the political spectrum, which is always most susceptible by manipulation from pseudoscience -- has been intense. But when a lobby is so hysterical, that is reason to question its motives and validity.
[. . .]
In a 2008 article from the peer-reviewed journal "Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities" -- which apparently used to be titled "Mental Retardation" before the thought and speech police outlawed this term -- Charles Holburn from the New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities cites some troubling statistics. Several decades ago, the autism rate among children was 1-in-14,300. It rose to 1-in-150 by 2002. Now it is just 1-in-45 if we use the latest 2014 data.
As many researchers have noted, the increase in the rate of autism often comes with a corresponding decline in the rate of other intellectual disabilities, which undercuts the credibility of those claiming autism is a discrete affliction, and that there is some type of "autism epidemic." Holburn goes on to clearly enunciate the core moral hazard/slippery slope problem exemplified by pandering to the autism lobby: "If there is more funding available for autism services, clinicians may be predisposed toward the diagnosis if it brings the child in contact with more services."
In other words, bad parenting and other problems that lead to developmental challenges in children get replaced by an autism diagnosis. Those who clearly have terrible parenting skills -- feeding their children (and themselves) all sorts of junk food, a family life riddled with over-stimulation, etc. -- subsequently blame their faults on some mysterious ailment that, inevitably, does not reflect back on their failings as parents.
[. . .]
There is even some evidence, although very weak at this point, in the scientific literature that diet is related to autism.
Now add in the hyper-stimulated online world and spastic social culture to these parents and kids already suffering massive dietary deficiencies, and a recipe for disaster awaits.
Common sense in the field of public health has gone out the window. Savage was getting at this, albeit with statements that were designed to shock.
[. . .]
Autism has become a poorly defined catchall dumping ground for children with various challenges. Some of these challenges are real; some are not. Some are hereditary, some result from environmental factors outside the control of parents, and large number of them perhaps are just the result of bad parenting.
We need to better determine where fault lies, and start punishing the parents financially for their poor decisions. The rest of the public should not be held responsible for the parenting deficiencies of a screaming lobby throwing blame on everything but where it truly lies -- themselves. Scarce public resources should only go to responsible parents. The irresponsible ones can pay for their own mistakes.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/the_autism_racket.html

March 26, 2016
The Autism Racket
By Sierra Rayne

Psychiatry Increasing Business With Addiction Services

Psychiatry is personal opinion masquerading as science. There is no pathology. Illnesses are defined as protected, legal speech and behavior that psychiatrists do not like or do not understand. They make false claims in order to appear as scientific, e.g., psychiatric illnesses are a chemical imbalance of the brain. When challenged the Amer. Psychiatric Ass'n was unable to provide evidence of any chemical imbalance or a chemical balance. It is a granfalloon, a major taxpayer funded boondoggle. A method of social control with no due process protections. Psychiatrists predict the future in courts, and are never held accountable for their errors. This by design to remove accountability from judges.



[From article]
Mortality rates are rising among less educated, late-middle-aged white Americans. Drugs and alcohol and suicide are the leading causes of the spike. Coincidently, church attendance in America has been in decline for some time.
Is there a correlation between the two? Do therapy and medications merely treat the symptoms of soul-sickness, while the untreated soul metastasizes into isolation, darkness, and despair?
The mental health industry has eased itself into our schools, our courts and prisons, the workplace, our homes and families, while easing prayer and religion out.
Mental health experts and drug companies are now the default provider for the treatment of society’s deadliest and costliest ills.
[. . .]



Teenagers receive therapy and medication to cope with the normal pains of growing up.
Schools have grief counselors on speed-dial should a young person be lost to suicide, while men and women of the cloth specially trained to comfort the afflicted are unceremoniously ignored.
[. . .]
All the while, free will and personal responsibility have gone by the wayside.
All this treatment would be fine, except that it isn’t doing much good.
Adolescent heroin addiction is an epidemic. Mental health claims are driving the explosion of Social Security disability claims.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/12/neurosis_or_soul_sickness.html

December 14, 2015
Neurosis or soul sickness?
By Gerald K. McOscar

Big Business Contributions Influenced Secret Trade Agreement Votes

[From article]
Fast-tracking the TPP, meaning its passage through Congress without having its contents available for debate or amendments, was only possible after lots of corporate money exchanged hands with senators. The US Senate passed Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) – the fast-tracking bill – by a 65-33 margin on 14 May. Last Thursday, the Senate voted 62-38 to bring the debate on TPA to a close.
Those impressive majorities follow months of behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing by the world’s most well-heeled multinational corporations with just a handful of holdouts.
Using data from the Federal Election Commission, this chart shows all donations that corporate members of the US Business Coalition for TPP made to US Senate campaigns between January and March 2015, when fast-tracking the TPP was being debated in the Senate:
Out of the total $1,148,971 given, an average of $17,676.48 was donated to each of the 65 “yea” votes.
The average Republican member received $19,673.28 from corporate TPP supporters.
The average Democrat received $9,689.23 from those same donors.
The amounts given rise dramatically when looking at how much each senator running for re-election received.
[. . .]
In just 24 hours, Wyden and five of those Democratic holdouts – Michael Bennet of Colorado, Dianne Feinstein of California, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Patty Murray of Washington, and Bill Nelson of Florida – caved and voted for fast-track.
Bennet, Murray, and Wyden – all running for re-election in 2016 – received $105,900 between the three of them. Bennet, who comes from the more purple state of Colorado, got $53,700 in corporate campaign donations between January and March 2015, according to Channing’s research.
[. . .]
“How can we expect politicians who routinely receive campaign money, lucrative job offers, and lavish gifts from special interests to make impartial decisions that directly affect those same special interests?” Gidfar said. “As long as this kind of transparently corrupt behavior remains legal, we won’t have a government that truly represents the people.”

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/27/corporations-paid-us-senators-fast-track-tpp

Here’s how much corporations paid US senators to fast-track the TPP bill
Critics of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership are unlikely to be silenced by an analysis of the flood of money it took to push the pact over its latest hurdle
C Robert Gibson and Taylor Channing
Wednesday 27 May 2015 08.30 EDT

U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) Warns of Loss of Trust After Passage of Secret Trade Agreement

[From article]
“Americans increasingly believe that their country isn’t serving its own citizens. They need look no further than a bipartisan vote of Congress that will transfer congressional power to the Executive Branch and, in turn, to a transnational Pacific Union and the global interests who will help write its rules.
"The same routine plays out over and again. We are told a massive bill must be passed, all the business lobbyists and leaders tell how grand it will be, but that it must be rushed through before the voters spoil the plan. As with Obamacare and the Gang of Eight, the politicians meet with the consultants to craft the talking points—not based on what the bill actually does, but what they hope people will believe it does. And when ordinary Americans who never asked for the plan, who don’t want the plan, who want no part of the plan, resist, they are scorned, mocked, and heaped with condescension.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/sessions-they-won-vote-lost-trust-american-people_976870.html

Sessions: They Won the Vote, But Lost the 'Trust of the American People'
'Washington broke arms and heads to get that 60th vote'
2:27 PM, JUN 23, 2015

BY DANIEL HALPER

Drug Companies Expand Their Client Base Targeting Adults

[From article]
Adults in the U.S. have overtaken children in taking medication for the condition and accounted for 53 percent of the industrywide 63 million prescriptions for ADHD drugs last year,
[. . .]
More parents of children with ADHD -- which leads to restlessness, lack of focus and impulsive behavior -- are also getting diagnosed amid a growing awareness that it can be inherited.
[. . .]
In Europe, children are still by far the larger segment, making up 74 percent of ADHD patients in 2014. “It is important to note that the level of acceptance, diagnosis and available medications for ADHD are more limited in Europe than the U.S.,”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-22/american-adults-surpass-children-in-taking-drugs-to-stay-focused

American Adults Surpass Children in Taking Drugs to Stay Focused
by Makiko Kitamura
June 22, 2015 — 4:05 AM EDT

Journalists Not Welcome At Bilderberg Conference In Austria

[From article]
That’s right: Bilderberg has its own military radar station. It has its own no-fly zone. Nothing gets near it: there are police, right this minute, up on the surrounding mountaintops stopping hang gliders from getting airborne. Presumably to avoid them being shot down by the itchy security detail of the secretary-general of Nato.
[. . .]
At one point, in my umpteenth roadside check, I turned round to see an officer taking my picture on his phone. I trotted over and gave him a card with my email address. “Do you mind sending me that photo? Just so I can remember this moment.” He mumbled something about not taking one, so I got my own camera out. “No photographs! You must not take pictures of police.” No, no, I assured him. Not my intention at all. I handed him the camera. “Could you take one of me?” A bit confused, he obliged – and promptly took one of me and his colleague.
[. . .]
“You’ve checked me out a dozen times already,” he grumbled. “I’m going to be here all week, I don’t want to be checked every five minutes.” The lieutenant in charge of the checking shrugged: “We can check you as many times as we want. Open your car please.” My Swiss friend stood his ground: “Don’t you need probable cause?” The lieutenant shook his head and smiled: “No, we don’t.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/10/at-g7-we-journalists-pampered-bilderberg-we-harassed-by-police

At the G7, we journalists were pampered – at Bilderberg we're harassed by police
Bilderberg uses the same security as the G7, just on a slightly different alp. So why don’t the lavish state resources extend to allowing free press reporting?

* * *


A mobile radar station has been supplied to cover the Bilderberg conference, guarded by Austrian soldiers. 

Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

[From article]
The secretive Bilderberg Group has deployed a hi-tech jamming system to shut down communications around the site of the elitist confab’s luxury hotel in order to strangle media coverage of the event.
[. . .]
Cellphone jammers work by preventing cellular phones from receiving signals from base stations. The jammers are technically illegal in European Union countries.
This triangulated jamming system would explain why Infowars reporters Rob Dew and Josh Owens have been unable to broadcast live via Skype anywhere near the InterAlpen hotel.

http://www.infowars.com/exclusive-bilderberg-deploys-hi-tech-jamming-to-shut-down-communications/

EXCLUSIVE: BILDERBERG DEPLOYS HI-TECH JAMMING TO SHUT DOWN COMMUNICATIONS
Source tells Infowars giant mast erected to kill cellphone coverage
by PAUL JOSEPH WATSON

JUNE 11, 2015

Sneak Peak At Ann Coulter's New Book, Adios America

Sign supporting globalism, held by elitist "rule of law" skeptic.

Does misguided abuse (non enforcement) of immigration laws and other White House clever tricks help to implement globalism, breaking down of international borders? Is that why Republicans do not oppose the destruction of the US economy and culture? Are international lobbyists funded by elite business interests trying to create one world government and allow business elitists to run the world? Is their goal eliminating nations, laws, state's rights and individual rights? Will elimination of the middle class improve the quality of life of third world countries?

[From article]
Mexican immigrants send $20 billion back to Mexico every year — more than the U.S. sends to that country in direct foreign aid.
– The New York Times was saved from bankruptcy by one of the richest men in the world, Mexican Carlos Slim, whose fortune comes from illegal aliens’ sending money — most of it from the U.S. taxpayer — back to Mexico.
– Anything the Times says on immigration ought to be treated like a press release from a tobacco company about the low risk of disease from smoking.[. . .]
– Fully half of the fires on federal or tribal land investigated by the Government Accountability Office, where a cause could be determined, were set by illegal immigrants. (For suggesting as much, Sen. John McCain was denounced as a racist on MSNBC and in The Washington Post.)
– Illegal immigrants from Mexico planted a huge pot farm right in the middle of Sequoia National Forest, dumping pesticides and refuse within a few miles of the world’s tallest tree.
– The Sierra Club, which took a $100 million donation from hedge fund billionaire David Gelbaum to be pro-illegal immigration, never said a word about it. Consequently, nothing the Sierra Club says about immigration — or the environment — can be believed.

http://humanevents.com/2015/06/03/immigration-advocates-frightened-by-99-pound-blonde/?utm_source=coulterdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Immigration Advocates Frightened By 99-Pound Blonde

Ann Coulter

Wednesday Jun 3, 2015 3:19 PM

Taxpayers Fund Lawyers, Thriving in Immigration Disorder, Chaos

[From article]
there are currently more than 366,000 pending deportation cases with average wait times nationally of nearly 600 days. There are a measly 59 immigration courts staffed by a meager 235 judges to handle all those cases.
Insiders have told me again and again over the years: "It ain't over 'til the alien wins."
[. . .]



As they clamor for mass illegal alien amnesty, left-wing immigration lawyers and ethnic activists operate a lucrative industry whose sole objective is to help illegal aliens and convicted criminal visa holders evade deportation for as long as possible. Groups such as the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, and the American Friends Service Committee make their livelihoods off administrative bottlenecks.
[. . .]
It's a program for illegal alien victims of trafficking or domestic violence that was supposed to grant temporary legal status if the beneficiaries assisted law enforcement, but has morphed into an ever-expanding path to residency, work authorization and citizenship for virtually anyone who applies.
[. . .]
Expedient promises by both parties to "secure the border" are worthless unless America shuts down the litigation boondoggle that rewards foreign law-breakers, their saboteur lawyers and their amnesty advocates.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin071014.php3#.U-r2AN0--yM

Jewish World Review

July 10, 2014 / 12 Tammuz, 5774
Obama's Immigration Lawyers' Enrichment Act
By Michelle Malkin

After Arrest Of Drug Cartel Leader, Business Goes On

[From article]

Nobody outside the cartel leadership knows the extent of its power or business, but estimates are that Sinaloa handles 25 to 45 percent of all drugs entering the United States, with revenues around $3 billion a year. Last year, Forbes named Guzman the world's 67th most powerful person, between U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner and New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson.
Sinaloa is believed to operate with an extended network of officials and lookouts on the payroll, especially in the western Mexico state for which the cartel is named. Both a state and federal police chief have been arrested for alleged ties to Sinaloa or its allies, only to later be released. When the Mexican marines mounted their offensive on Saturday, it was without alerting any local law enforcement.
'Local and state authorities are in the service of the Sinaloa cartel,' Valdez said.
Even though the long-term fate of Sinaloa is unclear, everyone agrees on the bottom line: The drugs will still continue to flow, even with the takedown of other Mexican cartels.
'In drug trafficking, as long as there is demand, there will be a supply,' Valdes said. 'It's like energy. You can't create or destroy it. It only transforms.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2566982/Mexico-capos-arrest-unlikely-slow-cartel.html

The next El Capo: Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada believed to have taken over notorious Sinaloa drug cartel after arrest of former boss
Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada, 66, grew up with former Sinaloa boss Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman
He has been quoted in the past as saying they talked often
Zambada has long been considered the brains of the Sinaloa cartel, Guzman was viewed as the muscle
By ASSOCIATED PRESS and RYAN GORMAN
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 19:14 EST, 24 February 2014 | UPDATED: 00:01 EST, 3 March 2014

Drudge Report Big Business

Matt Drudge

http://www.businessinsider.com/drudge-report-is-worth-2012-10

It's Time People Realized That The Drudge Report Is A Major Media Property Worth Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars
Henry Blodget
Oct. 10, 2012, 12:32 PM

Speaking for Human Rights is a Kennedy Cult Business

Using human suffering to show one's humanitarianism is a Kennedy Cult trait. It seems that they only speak against human rights abuses if they get paid to do so. How is this different from what the altruistic US Congress and US Senate do? Former US Rep. from Cambridge MA, Joe Kennedy earns a similar super sized salary as an executive of a non profit oil company while promoting the anti American Hugo Chavez. What a wonderful country where the upper class leadership gets rich bashing the nation that grants them a privileged position.

[From article]
"Kennedy was paid a flat $50,000 by lead attorney Steven Donziger on Feb. 22, 2010, bank statements made public in the case show.
She was set to pull down an additional $10,000 per month, according to a September 2010 draft budget by the law firm. And she was to get another $40,000 in expenses in June 2010, according to an invoice from Donziger.
[. . .]
Kennedy, who is paid $225,239 a year as president of the RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights"

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/cash_kerry_in_rain_forest_3zYGnmDnsQ1Qyv536irIWL

Cuomo's ex Kennedy stands to make $40M in secret anti-oil deal
By ANNIE KARNI
New York Post
Last Updated: 8:35 AM, January 15, 2012
Posted: 1:10 AM, January 15, 2012

Racism and Diversity Are Big Businesses

Only problemo is, that is what the Diversity industry is all about. If there are no differences, Diversity mongers will be out of work. Cambridge city government has two $80,000 per year diversity officers. Are you arguing for the elimination of their jobs? Racism is a big business in this country. It keeps many people employed and many trouble makers silent.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/10/13/scrutiny-raceless-students/

Raceless Like Me
Students at Harvard Navigate their Way Beyond the Boundaries of Race
By Zoe A. Y. Weinberg,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Published: Thursday, October 13, 2011

Warehousing Humans

Muzzy Rosenblatt uses the same revolving door between government and business as officials of the Department of Defense and the White House. Warehousing humans is good for the profit-maker. How does it help support the needs of the individuals? Treating homeless persons as prisoners, as if they lost their rights under law, shows how greed manifests itself in the human services industry. Big Homelessness rules in New York as Big Pharma rules in DC.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/chelsea_shelter_opens_under_ire_1zo8ce0dzFBdH0f2J3cHrK

Chelsea shelter opens under ire
By CARL CAMPANILE
New York Post
Last Updated: 2:57 AM, August 23, 2011
Posted: 1:19 AM, August 23, 2011

Psychiatry, Big Business

No recession among taxpayer funded psychiatrists.

[From article]
"One physician, Quazi Rahman, pulled in $681,441. Three others topped the $500,000 mark.
[. . .]
Marengo said the huge overtime payments came at a time when the hospital had difficulty recruiting psychiatrists."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/death_pays_as_shrinks_rake_in_ot_vbVNyNNflkoOBerfoVWl3K

Death pays as shrinks rake in OT
David Seifman
New York Post
Last Updated: 7:12 AM, August 21, 2011
Posted: 1:14 AM, August 21, 2011

Homelessness is Big Business

[An edited version of this letter was published in the New York Post on Sunday July 31, 2011 here

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/letters/big_homeless_sLzFfEbyk4fDNmuA2moTsO

The federal government creates procedures not to end homelessness, but to allow businessmen to acquire taxpayer funds. US Department of Housing and Urban Development issues guidelines for local communities to get grants to address homelessness. They are required to submit a plan to end homelessness in ten years. In Cambridge MA the City created a committee to create a plan. Fifty people, citizens, politicians and bureaucrats met several times and came up with a plan. They submitted the plan to HUD. The city got the money then allocated it to provide goods and services to persons without homes. They waste the money funding one room hotel units for families. The motel owners make good money. It costs more than an apartment would cost the taxpayers. But business is business even when human lives are the commodity.

[From article]
"the Department of Homeless Services. DHS spends $98.50 a day — $3,000 a month — per single adult in shelters. For families, that figure is even higher. So in 2009, the Bowery Residents Committee, the “nonprofit” behind the Chelsea shelter, took in more than $24 million in government contracts, not counting $6 million in Medicaid checks, $6 million in “program service fees” and $1.5 million in “other grants.”
[. . .]
In Houston, for instance, a room at a shelter is costing taxpayers $3,340 per month even though a two-bedroom apartment goes for an average of $743.
[. . .]
Rosenblatt was an official in the Department of Homeless Services starting in the Koch administration and stayed there until 1999, rising to the level of acting commissioner.

Now he cashes DHS checks he used to write. Powered by your money, the carousel of Big Homelessness goes round and round."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/homeless_inc_6hcPCibAyfhsBu3Scrb0nI

Homeless, inc.
Shelters are a booming business in New York City — even though no one (except ‘nonprofit’ CEOs) wants them
Kyle Smith
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:00 AM, July 24, 2011
Posted: 10:11 PM, July 23, 2011

Task Force Ignores Safety, Supports Improved Business

Current state policy treats persons accused of mental illness as criminals, contrary to common sense. Treating persons convicted of crime as criminals and persons accused of mental illness as if they have a disability is offensive to this task force. The recommendations benefits psychiatric business interests. Allowing criminals to enjoy protections of vulnerable persons, turns the laws upside down and permits predators to prey on vulnerable persons.

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1349070

Report: State must do more to protect mental health workers
By Chris Cassidy
Boston Herald
Friday, July 1, 2011

Racism Is a Business For Some

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/20/opinion/20blow.html

Let’s Rescue the Race Debate
By CHARLES M. BLOW
New York Times
Published: November 19, 2010

Scanners a Business Scam

[From article]
"The body scanners coming to your local airport provide marginal benefits -- if any -- in detecting weapons and explosives hidden on travelers. They aren't worth the cost in money -- let alone in civil liberties.
[. . .]
An army of executives for scanner-producing corporations -- mostly former high-ranking Homeland Security officials -- successfully lobbied Congress into spending $300 million in stimulus money to buy the scanners. But running them will cost another $340 million each year. Operating them means 5,000 added TSA personnel, growing the screener workforce by 10 percent. This, when the federal debt commission is saying that we must cut federal employment rolls, including some FBI agents, just to keep spending sustainable.

Why cut funding for the people who actually catch terrorists to add more pointless hassles at the airport? (Going through a body scanner also takes longer -- the process is slower than magnetometers.)"

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/body_scanners_the_naked_truth_hBCJUd9j0d5kAZWSrStIjL

Body scanners: The naked truth
By DAVID RITTGERS
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:11 AM, November 17, 2010
Posted: 10:33 PM, November 16, 2010

Psychiatry is Big Business

Is psychiatry a big for profit business or a means of healing humans? Does incarceration make for bigger profits and loss of freedom?

http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/17/universal-health-services-to-acquire-psychiatric-solutions-marketnewsvideo.html

Universal Health Services to Acquire Psychiatric Solutions MarketNewsVideo.com , 05.17.10, 05:00 PM EDT

Hospital operator Universal Health Services (UHS) said Monday it has reached a definitive agreement with Psychiatric Solutions (PSYS) to acquire the inpatient psychiatric facility operator for a total value of about $3. 1 billion.

Psychiatric Solutions is "the largest operator of owned or leased freestanding psychiatric inpatient facilities with approximately 11,000 beds in 32 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands."

http://www.psysolutions.com/

Howard Smith brings a lawsuit against this corporation based on the value of the stock.

http://www.howardsmithlaw.com/TakeoverCases/PsychiatricSolutions.html

Obama Bashes then Dines with Moguls

"Present at the lunch were Lazarus; Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase; James Hackett, chief of Anadarko Petroleum; Rex Tillerson, head of Exxon Mobil and Chief Executive Edward Rust Jr. of State Farm Insurance. [. . .]The meal, which a source said was "much friendlier toned" but far from a "love fest," came a week after Obama took direct aim at the banks by proposing a set of rules that limit growth and force them out of hedge funds, private equity and proprietary trading."

Also in attendance at the lunch were presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/prez_power_lunch_Bcg99jNnwfoP5YDdQKhW5L

Prez's power lunch

Schmoozes biz bigs

By MARK DeCAMBRE

New York Post

Last Updated: 7:30 AM, January 30, 2010

Posted: 1:29 AM, January 28, 2010