Goldman Exec:the general public should “tolerate the inequality"

[plastixxman]

Id like to know the name of the PR firm thats advising them.   Must be the same on that works for Charles Manson and the Balloon Boy family.



http://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-exec-inequality-is-the-path-to-prosperity-2009-10

[cz]

"You should love getting screwed by us, because we're instilling the 'dream' in you that one day you might get to where we are and be able to screw everyone over too."

[JohnLudi]

Inequality aided by the redistribution upward of our tax dollars.

[kmaine2]

" let them eat cake"

Now where did I put that guillotine? I know it was on my list of preps

[BlueOwl]

Unfortunately, when the shit goes down, the GS employees will have their Blackwater equivalents staged outside their gated communities while 99% of us waste each other in a Kwik-E-Mart over the last can of water chestnuts.

Look at sites like www.peopleofwalmart.com (or even shows like America's funniest home videos).  Its clear that we, as a Nation, don't respect each other anymore.  Our neighbors are collectively annoying, disgusting, and in our way.  That is not a good climate for solidarity when its needed most.

[roccman]

Look at sites like www.peopleofwalmart.com (or even shows like America's funniest home videos).  Its clear that we, as a Nation, don't respect each other anymore.  Our neighbors are collectively annoying, disgusting, and in our way.  That is not a good climate for solidarity when its needed most.

Humans are hard wired to cheat. We are basically sociopaths - all of us. And for this particularly rapacious species - we should not be surprised by this statement.

[Seahorse]

Blueowl wrote:

Look at sites like www.peopleofwalmart.com (or even shows like America's funniest home videos).  Its clear that we, as a Nation, don't respect each other anymore.  Our neighbors are collectively annoying, disgusting, and in our way.  That is not a good climate for solidarity when its needed most.

Yes, unfortunately, we are a poor, dumb, illiterate mass separated by a common language.

[stercrazy]

Freakin' cowards... gettin' a British Lord to tell everyone who subsidized them to suck it up! They just don't get it and never will until the people are at the gates with their pitchforks and torches.

This just keeps getting played out throughout history. As much as things change... they stay the same. 

[jmhpolar]

... 99% of us waste each other in a Kwik-E-Mart...

Apu ain't lettin' that shit go down.  Not in his store.

[byelka]

Now now everyone, it's the wealthiest Americans who pay the most tax, OK?* So it's not like they're keeping it all for themselves. They are the ones keeping this country afloat, and if we start regulating them or even questioning the legitimacy of what they do we are going to end up cutting off a valuable stream of revenue for Swiss banks and choking the life out of our great country. I fought a war** so that the top 1% in this country could control 38% of the wealth***, so don't go getting all communist-y on me, here.

Plus, equality? Why should we have equality? Those wealthy people worked hard for their taxpayer-funded bonuses. And hey, it's not easy taking pensions generated by middle-class folks and using them to gamble with. Sure, there's no handle to pull like in a real casino, but still. It's really tiring.

Also, if these poor people are so angry, why don't they just get off their lazy asses and succeed? Like the Goldman Sachs execs did? This is America, after all. If you work hard, go to school, keep your nose clean, and just TRY, one day you could be the head of Goldman Sachs or maybe the guy who runs the Treasury****. You lower- and middle-class people need to stop grousing about losing your job and your house (hey, no one told you to get a job and a house! It was your choice, man.) and get out there and do some real work for god's sake. Because it was work, like moving numbers from one Excel spreadsheet to another, that made this country what it is today.*****


*Except for the ones that have those Swiss bank accounts we've heard so much about recently. And the ones who can afford tax lawyers and accountants to help them find loopholes so they don't actually end up paying quite so much. And the ones who put their money into illegal tax shelters like offshore companies.

**OK, well, I didn't actually fight a war. YOU did. But it's LIKE I did. Sort of.

***http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth

****What? You say they're the same guy? Oh, well then I guess both those positions are filled. I hear Wal-Mart needs a greeter, though.

*****Completely bankrupt.

[rockatanski]

the general public should tolerate the inequality, but only as long as he will tolerate the general publics collective boot up his ass. 

let them eat cake, indeed.

[Arraya]

Now now everyone, it's the wealthiest Americans who pay the most tax, OK?* So it's not like they're keeping it all for themselves. They are the ones keeping this country afloat, and if we start regulating them or even questioning the legitimacy of what they do we are going to end up cutting off a valuable stream of revenue for Swiss banks and choking the life out of our great country. I fought a war** so that the top 1% in this country could control 38% of the wealth***, so don't go getting all communist-y on me, here.

Plus, equality? Why should we have equality? Those wealthy people worked hard for their taxpayer-funded bonuses. And hey, it's not easy taking pensions generated by middle-class folks and using them to gamble with. Sure, there's no handle to pull like in a real casino, but still. It's really tiring.

Also, if these poor people are so angry, why don't they just get off their lazy asses and succeed? Like the Goldman Sachs execs did? This is America, after all. If you work hard, go to school, keep your nose clean, and just TRY, one day you could be the head of Goldman Sachs or maybe the guy who runs the Treasury****. You lower- and middle-class people need to stop grousing about losing your job and your house (hey, no one told you to get a job and a house! It was your choice, man.) and get out there and do some real work for god's sake. Because it was work, like moving numbers from one Excel spreadsheet to another, that made this country what it is today.*****


*Except for the ones that have those Swiss bank accounts we've heard so much about recently. And the ones who can afford tax lawyers and accountants to help them find loopholes so they don't actually end up paying quite so much. And the ones who put their money into illegal tax shelters like offshore companies.

**OK, well, I didn't actually fight a war. YOU did. But it's LIKE I did. Sort of.

***http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth

****What? You say they're the same guy? Oh, well then I guess both those positions are filled. I hear Wal-Mart needs a greeter, though.

*****Completely bankrupt.

LOL...  +10

[heathenmom]

Now now everyone, it's the wealthiest Americans who pay the most tax, OK?* So it's not like they're keeping it all for themselves. They are the ones keeping this country afloat, and if we start regulating them or even questioning the legitimacy of what they do we are going to end up cutting off a valuable stream of revenue for Swiss banks and choking the life out of our great country. I fought a war** so that the top 1% in this country could control 38% of the wealth***, so don't go getting all communist-y on me, here.

Plus, equality? Why should we have equality? Those wealthy people worked hard for their taxpayer-funded bonuses. And hey, it's not easy taking pensions generated by middle-class folks and using them to gamble with. Sure, there's no handle to pull like in a real casino, but still. It's really tiring.

Also, if these poor people are so angry, why don't they just get off their lazy asses and succeed? Like the Goldman Sachs execs did? This is America, after all. If you work hard, go to school, keep your nose clean, and just TRY, one day you could be the head of Goldman Sachs or maybe the guy who runs the Treasury****. You lower- and middle-class people need to stop grousing about losing your job and your house (hey, no one told you to get a job and a house! It was your choice, man.) and get out there and do some real work for god's sake. Because it was work, like moving numbers from one Excel spreadsheet to another, that made this country what it is today.*****


*Except for the ones that have those Swiss bank accounts we've heard so much about recently. And the ones who can afford tax lawyers and accountants to help them find loopholes so they don't actually end up paying quite so much. And the ones who put their money into illegal tax shelters like offshore companies.

**OK, well, I didn't actually fight a war. YOU did. But it's LIKE I did. Sort of.

***http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth

****What? You say they're the same guy? Oh, well then I guess both those positions are filled. I hear Wal-Mart needs a greeter, though.

*****Completely bankrupt.

   I'm so glad you're back from your doom break.

[hillwalker]

Look at sites like www.peopleofwalmart.com (or even shows like America's funniest home videos).  Its clear that we, as a Nation, don't respect each other anymore.  Our neighbors are collectively annoying, disgusting, and in our way.  That is not a good climate for solidarity when its needed most.

Humans are hard wired to cheat. We are basically sociopaths - all of us. And for this particularly rapacious species - we should not be surprised by this statement.

While I get what you are saying, I feel kinda pressed to say

Speak for yourself.

[byelka]

I think I'm actually reinvigorated!



(Did you answer my question about lemon trees that I posted to your blog? I'm off to go check.)