Posts Tagged Obama
Obama Does Not Begrudge Wall Street Terrorists’ Robbing the National Treasury to make a Profit?
Posted by Lance Haley in Bailouts, Banking, Business and Money, Capitalism, Economics, Financial Crisis, Financial Terrorists, How and Why We Get Screwed, Politics, Show Them the $$$, Wall Street, Wealth Disparity & the Ultra Rich, economy, financial industry on February 10th, 2010

President Obama – you cannot be serious?!?
These Titans of Socialist Capitalism take the money we bailed them out with – including “rigging” the system with the help of Paulson and Geithner so that AIG’s TARP money was re-directed to them – go on to make an enormous profit by trading with that money (which was not the purpose of the bailouts), and you call them savvy businessmen?
Now almost a year ago to the day, you gave the following remarks at the White House:
“This is America. We don’t disparage wealth. We don’t begrudge anybody for achieving success. And we believe that success should be rewarded. But what gets people upset – and rightfully so – are executives being rewarded for failure. Especially when those rewards are subsidized by U.S. taxpayers.”
So are they failures? Or savvy businessmen? Or both?
This author recently pondered your failure to immediately regulate and reign-in Wall Street after your election when they were still on the ropes. Here is the bottom line: They screwed up, then they screwed us, and then you screwed up?
Do you see the problem here, Mr. President. The cognitive dissonance regarding your words and deeds towards Wall Street is deeply disturbing to those who supported you in 2008, especially when you had the perfect combination of opportunity, power, and the political capital to reign in these financial terrorists right after you took an oath to protect the American people. You did nothing, and now it is too late. Was it intentional? Or are you being obtuse?
When political rhetoric collides with inaction, people become dismayed. Maybe the young voters who are stepping to the sidelines are correct?
Disillusionment is too mild a word for such a betrayal if it was just the “same old wine in a brand new bottle“, President Obama.
“Meet the new Boss . . . Same as the Old Boss . . .We Won’t Get Fooled Again!”
Shame on us for ever having the audacity to hope? I hope not.
OK, President Obama, “Where’s The Beef”?
Posted by Lance Haley in Bailouts, Business and Money, Capitalism, Economics, Financial Crisis, Government, How and Why We Get Screwed, Wall Street, economy on February 6th, 2010

You are making all of this noise about refocusing TARP (bailout) funds towards small business.
President Obama, this blog noted that you said the same thing 100 days ago . . . read it right here.
So Where’s The Beef?
Wonder If They Can Help the Democrats Grow Testicles?
Posted by Lance Haley in Congress, Government, How and Why We Get Screwed, Politics, Show Them the $$$, United States on November 9th, 2009

Scientists at Wake Forest University Medical Center claimed that they have succeeded in growing artificial penises in male rabbits using similar cells from another male rabbit. The study was reported to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and has given given great promise for humans who are missing particular organs in their own bodies.
One of the researchers working on the project said he “is hoping the the procedure will work with people, perhaps starting with adult men who have had damage to their organs.”
Hey, I will donate my testicles in order to help any number of those spineless Democrats in Washington who hold a Congressional majority to finally stand up to the likes of Joe Lieberman, Olympia Snowe, John Boehner, or Mitch McConnell and tell them to stick their heads where the sun never shines.
I will make this sacrifice for my country and report to Wake Forest University Medical Center at the first call to duty. Just let me know if any of you Democrats have the balls, figuratively speaking, to take me up on this offer since most of you obviously do not have any balls, literally speaking.
Bipartisanship is just another word for “nothin’ left to lose.”
Greed is Good!
Posted by Lance Haley in Uncategorized on October 22nd, 2009
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Remember the mantra ”Greed is Good” ?
Thank you Brian Griffiths for resurrecting the ghost of Gordon Gecko (Michael Douglas) from the movie Wallstreet.
Mr. Griffiths is an international advisor for Goldman Sachs (at least he is as of this moment – tomorrow is another story). He spoke at an economic conference held in London yesterday where the topic of discussion was . . . oh this is really good . . .
“What is the place of morality in the marketplace?”
From there, it gets even more surreal.
Mr. Griffiths defended this weeks report coming out of Goldman Sachs that record compensation packages of $16.7 billion were being paid out to the company’s employees for the first nine months of 2009, an increase of 46 percent from a year earlier. If you think that obscene information just made your blood pressure go through the proverbial ceiling, his comment justifying these compensation figures will absolutely cause you to ”blow a gasket”.
“We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity and opportunity for all.”
Yes! That is how he rationalized this unconscionable decision from a financial institution that the U.S. taxpayer just bailed out.
But Mr. Griffiths is not done. He concedes that “[i]t was the failed moral compass of bankers which was primarily responsible for why we had this crisis. The question is: what can we do in the culture of institutions to make them behave in a more socially responsible way?”
Ahhhhhhh . . . Give them more money???? Yea, that’s the ticket! That should stop this ever-escalating climb into the stratosphere of economic insanity. Right?
But he ends on a very positive note, telling the audience that “To whom much is given much is expected,” he said. “There is a sense that if you make money you are expected to give.”
Yes. That’s what they will do. Engage in an ignoble and altruistic charitable act in order to wash away the sins of avarice, greed, and excess so that one can tolerate the inequality of his lifestyle compared to those less fortunate so as to inspire prosperity and opportunity in them, that they might become like him and do the same for others in a long cycle of never-ending prosperity and go on tolerating this inequitable way of living so that even more will prosper, all in the hopes that someday we will all be equally filthy rich and working ever harder each day to make more money to show the opportunities that await others who aspire to our level of greed and avarice.
I like it. I think I can handle the job. Let me check . . . no pulse, no heart, ice in my veins and in my glass of 20 year old scotch, no conscience, not a moral fiber in my body. Please hand me a cigar. When can I start?





