When a sector of society weakens, Wall Street conquers it as a profit.
And even as the economy weakens, Wall Street is still predicting earnings in the fourth quarter to be 23 percent above last year's level, a target that is looking more out of reach by the day.
O'Rourke has voted for GOP bills that his fellow Democratic lawmakers said reinforced Republicans' anti-tax ideology, chipped away at the Affordable Care Act (ACA), weakened Wall Street regulations, boosted the fossil fuel industry and bolstered Donald Trump's immigration policy.
But it also hints at the rising power of what has been called the Elizabeth Warren wing of the party: leftwing Democrats appalled at measures to weaken Wall Street reforms, with the president apparently willing to turn a blind eye.
In an era of growing economic inequality, O'Rourke has split with the majority of his party to vote for Republican initiatives to weaken Wall Street regulations and accelerate bank mergers – and he once voted for a Republican bill that Democratic legislators said was designed to block the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's from combatting racially discriminatory lending.
Since winning a Senate seat in 2012, Warren brought Congress to the brink of a shutdown because of a provision in a key spending bill that weakened Wall Street regulations.
The President stated, "I'm not wild about everything in it -- I'm sure that's true for everybody -- but it is a budget that, as I insisted, invests in our military and our middle class, without ideological provisions that would have weakened Wall Street reform or rules on big polluters".
Many drowned when they were swept away by surging waters or were killed when weakened walls collapsed onto them.
If you must go out, watch for fallen objects, downed electric wires, and weakened walls, bridges, roads, and sidewalks.
Penicillin and methicillin work by weakening the wall of the bacterial cell; when the wall is compromised, the osmotic gradient between a bacterial cell's cytoplasm and its environment forces the cell to lyse (break open).
