Posted on 12/01/2009 8:05:57 AM PST by DuncanWaring
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You mean the same Matt Tiabbi who is a regular on Rolling Stone magazine and comes up with a different way to bash Republicans/Conservatives/Christians every month while praising his true savior Barack Obama? No thanks, I'll pass.
This is lefty vilification of bankers, and Wall street.
The true villains in this are our elected representatives in Congress and our bank regulators, Fannie Mae , Freddie Mac and HUD.
This is an attempt to shift things away from the government where the true responsibility lies. And the anger of Americans is going nuclear, according to the polls over 70% of America is angry at the government.
This is an attempt to shift that anger and use it to threaten Wall Street and bankers.
If anyone needs to give our money back it is the government, which it can do by returning to Reagan economics, and abolishuiung corporate taxes, death taxes and capital gains.
This article is just bull shite. An attempt to shift blame away from the government, vilify our banking system and Wall Street free market economy so as to prepare it for nationalization by the federal government. Eff the government, not Wall Street.
OBAMA , GIVE OUR MONEY BACK!CUT ALL TAXES NOW!If anyone would be hung from lamp posts it should be those responsible in our government and its bureaucracy for sub prime mortgage lending policies.Harry Reid is first on that list, along with his real estate hawking family of bozos back in Nevada.
PRESERVE OUR FREE MARKET ECONOMY AT ALL COSTS!
BANG!
I’ll find some lampposts!
They will be tracked down, does not matter where they go.
If you were familiar with the works of Mr. “Benninger”, you would know he’s been railing against the trolls, knaves and scoundrels in Congress, the bank regulators, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, HUD, the FDIC, the Fed, etc for an extended period of time, pointing out specifically who has been violating which law the legal penalty for violation thereof.
A whole LOT of bankers were complicit and even EAGER partners in this rape of the taxpayers, so this is not a “bash the bankers” piece really at all. Yes, the politicians, such as Frank, Dodd, Pelousy, Reid, et cetera ad nauseum, need to decorate lampposts just as much as the banker-accomplices do. But with the banksters running from Goldman to the Treasury and back, you cannot logically say that government is the ONLY TRUE villain in this sordid mess. It took teamwork to get us this messed up. And the whole TEAM needs their necks stretched after the tar and feathers are applied properly.
Wow...this writer is one nasty little man!
His latest RS article is titled “Obama’s Wall Street Sellout”. Of course, a little dirt gets scattered on the Republicans too, so you might want to skip it.
You're not familiar with the historical body of work of Mr. Denninger, are you?
He doesn't have a problem with capitalism, he has a problem with lies and fraud.
Only if you’re a thief or a troll.
I’m certainly not a “lefty” and I have plenty of problems with bankers.
Starting with their two-faced attitude towards “free markets” - which goes like this:
1. We bankers want a free, unregulated market. For us. Only for us. You little investors... you get the regulation. You’re stupid, and cannot be trusted with your own money.
2. We bankers want to be able to make outsized profits for doing nothing more significant than shuffling paper around our desks and making numbers dance like a fairy on the head of a pin. And when the numbers don’t add up, or our mathematical “models” blow up, we want to be bailed out by the taxpayers or the Fed.
3. When we ask for a bailout, we’re going to use the same tactics terrorists use: we’re going to walk onto Main Street USA with a financial suicide bomb strapped around us and yell “If you don’t bail us out, we’ll take you with us!”
4. When people protest about how much money we’re making off the loans the taxpayer gave us at absurdly below-market rates and terms, we’ll protest “we’re doing God’s work...” (as Blankfein did in London). It is nauseating when they wrap themselves in the flag, but to lay claim to knowing the intentions of the Almighty... well, Blankfein redefined “chutzpah” that day.
As far as I’m concerned, bankers asked for socialism. They should get it - good and hard. Right down to the last detail.... the part where the government officials inquire “in which ear would you like your bullet, comrade?” and the after-detail, where his next of kin are billed for the bullet.
Took the test on your home page...looks like we share the same views.
Semper fi, FRiend!
Yeah, real liberal lover, that Taibbi.
The banksters in question won’t be hauled out of their beds or their offices.
They’ll be on a 200+ foot megayacht, somewhere between the Caymans and the Bahamas, laughing their asses off.
And they’ve put away enough gold and foreign real estate to live like maharajas for a century.
Wall Street is like the NFL, ML Baseball, NCAA BCS Football, etc. They are not free market industries, they are highly protected cartels, with special protections such as anti-trust exemptions, or other special government benefits available to them.
I'll bet that 18 months ago, Bear Stearns would have proclaimed the free market spirit that embodies Wall Street.
When I think of John Boehner, I think of all the heavy lifting he does, as he blasts a shot out of a sand trap.
That’s one possible scenario of providing a spark to one of the many powder kegs.
The ACORNers are doing what they please and don’t even get a slap on the wrist.
The American people’s resentment of such “organizations” of unionized thugs will blow up one day and exact a disastrous price on them and the country.
Thugs don’t care because they think that they’ll win hands down. They’re quite mistaken in their ignorant overconfidence and by their blind following of their bosses who WANT to blow the country apart.
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