Even though he proudly pays himself more in a year than most of us could ever dream of — $68m in 2007 alone, a record for any Wall Street CEO, to add to the more than $500m of Goldman stock he owns — he insists he’s still "a blue-collar guy".Right. I haven't met too many blue-collar guys pulling down 68 million bucks a year. A union guy who put in a shitload of overtime every year could conceivably make $3 million in a lifetime; Blankfein wouldn't even notice if $3 million was missing from his pay.
The Times put it nicely:
Bankers brought the world to the brink of bankruptcy and instead of doing the decent thing and jumping out of the nearest window, they turned up cap in hand to governments to hoover up taxpayers’ money to save their skin.And now they are acting as though it was their acumen that is responsible for their sudden profits, not the money from government treasuries in the US and UK. (The fuckers should have jumped.)
As I mentioned before in a post on a different subject, my father warned me to beware of people who acted based on religious beliefs, as they had no problem with justifying dishonest, immoral, evil and horrific acts as "God's work." Goldman Sachs had no small part in taking down the world's economy, something which, thanks to their "alumni" in the Bush and Obama Administrations, they were able to profit handsomely from. Bastards.
SNL had something to say about this last weekend:
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