Questioning the bonuses and threatening to ban prop trading are not only annoying Wall Street but in return, hurting the Democratic Party. Before, the players on Wall Street were always donating to politicians; Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was a friend of President Obama, making JPMorgan a huge donor to the Democratic Party. Executives at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and other major firms have also found themselves in similar situations. However, after constant attack on the ‘Wall Street Fat Cats,’ JPMorgan Chase decided to skip out on solicitations from the Democratic and Senate campaign committees, giving $30,000 to the Republican Party instead. Many of the financial regulations are not only not helping the economy, they are beginning to piss off a lot of big Wall Street firms, who are some of the Democratic Party’s biggest financial supporters. Who are these financial reforms helping? Wall Street is getting ticked off, the Democratic Party is losing money, and it seems as if Main Street is still suffering with a 17 percent real employment rate (adding on discouraged workers). Perhaps the best quote that sums up how the players are feeling comes from Thomas R. Nides, a Morgan Stanley executive as well as chairman of a major Wall Street trade group, “I am a big fan of the president. But even if you are a big fan, when you are the piñata at the part, it doesn’t feel good.