The Fat Cats in DC

Enterprise Record Post Scripts | 2/16/10 | Tina Grazier

[OneVike]

When President Obama was asked last week about the $17 million bonus awarded to JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon and the $9 million bonus for Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein he responded by saying,

Hmmm...that doesn't jibe with what he said last December on 60 Minutes:

"I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street."

And it doesn't jibe with the message delivered to banks by Barney Frank, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, in January of 2009:

"People really hate you, and they're starting to hate us because we're hanging out with you. And you have to help us deal with that. ** The chances of talking the American public out of this kind of attitude are zero. There is now a deeply rooted anger on the part of the average American at what he or she thinks is a very unfair set of arrangements."

Oh brother...what exactly do the President and Chairman Frank mean? That banks need to provide an excuse for the excesses and manipulations of Frank and his cohorts in Congress? That after making deals and promises in exchange for huge campaign contributions business execs should take the blame and a pay cut to hide the failures of our representatives?

And what are we to think of the utter silence from these powerful Democrats on the bonuses being handed to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac CEO's at a time when those two institutions are still bleeding red ink, as they love to say when discussing the harm done to the economy by their careless manipulations. These two institutions provided politicians cover for the stupid regulatory scheme they devised to force

[OneVike]

After reading the article, check out the comment from the leftist who thinks it's all the fault of those on the right. The left controls congress and forced the banks to do do the very thing that caused the problem and the guy leaving the comment still thinks the right is to blame.

Some people are just stuck on stupid I guess.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

What article?

[sniper63]

"Some people are just stuck on stupid I guess."

"You can't "FIX" stupid"....Ron White

[OneVike]

I forgot the link!!!!!

could you please add it to the article.

It is too early I guess and I am still half asleep. I knew I should have had a cup of coffee before I began posting.

Arrrrgggg!

The Fat Cats in DC

[OneVike]

Hellooo????

Could you please either delete the post so I can re-post one with a link or maybe add the link to the article for me?

,,,,,,Helloo??

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

hit the abuse button....

works faster.

[OneVike]

You deleted the wrong ONE! The other one had the working link!!!!!!!!!

[OneVike]

This is an incomplete article without the link.

Please delete this one and put the other one back or at least add the link, because this is just an excerpt of the whole article.

That I why I re-posted it. I was hoping you would delete this one instead.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Maybe the mods need more coffee too.

Or they’re toying with you.

[OneVike]

Really, I need to be careful, so I don’t piss them off.

A fine line we walk my friend, a fine line between begging for assistance and demanding satisfaction....LOL