Mr. And Mrs. Blankfein's Thanksgiving: So Much To Be Thankful For.
(Mr. Blankfein is the CEO of Goldman-Sachs. Mrs. Blankfein is his spouse.)
In this image, CEO Blankfein is serving up a tasty treat for Goldman-Sachs' friends, and a few associates from the past: Mr. Hank Paulson (Goldman CEO prior to Mr. Blankfein, and Treasury Secretary under "Lil' Boots" Bush); Mr. Timothy (Timmeh!) Geitner, current Secretary of the Treasury; Little Bernie Madoff (United States Department Of Justice, Federal Corrections Inmate No. 61727-054); Maurice Greenberg (former CEO of AIG); 'Dick' Fuld (ex-CEO of Lehman Brothers, also 'ex'); Rupert Murdoch (CEO of the so-called 'News' Corporation, which includes Fox Broadcasting).
There are many others -- Mr. Warren Buffet; Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass., and Chairman of the House Banking and Finance Committee); Mr. Neel T. Kashkari (former Goldman VP, recruited from G-S by then Sec.-Treas. Hank Paulson [!] to 'oversee' the Bush TARP program), and others we've mentioned before -- but we couldn't get them all around the table in this image.
I'm sure they, and other happy associates and employees of Goldman, will eat hearty this year; I'm sure of it. Just as I'm sure this isn't a very happy Thanksgiving for a large number of us -- you know; the "little people". Just as I'm absolutely certain that the fix is in; no one will do anything to stop them or Banksters like them; and no one in or out of government will lift a finger to regulate them.
My apologies to Mr. Norman Rockwell for altering his classic Thanksgiving image; however, I'm fairly sure he would have been horrified and even angry at the sociopathic avarice and excess of persons like these...
GITTIS: Evelyn, wait -- let the police handle this!
EVELYN: He owns the police!'Chinatown' (1974)
speaking of barney frank, as you do above, i saw him on tv this week - he was annoyed with bernie because bernie's anti-bankster attacks and his saying that 'congress doesn't regulate wall street - wall street regulates congress' discounts the many pieces of legislation that have been passed - and here barney named a number of them - although i didn't see the whole thing i got the impression that barney is fully in hillary's corner
ReplyDeletespeaking of the current political scene - as i may have mentioned before, noam chomsky and i spent many hours together back in the 1960s - i took his course 'intellectuals and social change' - i got an A - actually, all of us got A's
i saw a recent interview with him in which he said bernie sanders is not really a socialist - he's a new dealer (not that there's anything wrong with that, as chomsky sort of implied but did not say in so many words)
the interviewer brought up hillary, and whether it would be worth the trouble to vote for her instead of the republican candidate, and noam said yes, it would - small differences, multiplied by enormous power, lead to important consequences for many people
in states where the outcome is in doubt, in other words, noam said, it was worthwhile to practice "less evilism" in the voting booth - not voting for the democrat is, in effect, voting for the republican
it was not noam, nor bernie, but irving berlin (who was born in siberia, by the way, not germany, as one might have inferred from his adopted surname - the circumstances of his family's emigration, while by no means unique, are worth reading about in wikipedia) who wrote this line, which i have slightly adapted and often think on - perhaps even more often than hillary thinks on the importance of keeping an attitude of gratitude, as she stated earlier this week in response to a rabbi bringing up simcha bunam's 'two pockets' saying, although i am not in a position to know hillary's heart , naturally - 'may the Creative Forces of the Universe stand beside us, and guide us, through the Night with the Light from Above' - metaphorically speaking, of course