Thursday, June 14, 2012

The deal ...

Charlie Pierce translates Jamie Dimon's bullshit testimony before Congress yesterday and gives the CEO a little reality:

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See, Jamie, here's the deal: Nobody trusts you bastards anymore. I'm not talking about that kept press, or by the walking sublets you have haunting the halls of Congress. I mean out in the world where people are still suffering the aftershocks of what the lot of you did to the country over the previous decade. Maybe this matters to you. Very likely, as long as you have the two entities I mentioned in your crisply tailored pocket, it doesn't. But there were some interviews in a Democracy Corps poll yesterday that ought to give you pause:

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I tell ya what; if these fuckers crash the economy again, they won't have time to jump because they're gonna be hung from the light-poles long before they get to that point. "Excessive government regulation" would be the least of their worries.

2 comments:

Gordon said...

Someone is going to pay

Us. As always.

Anonymous said...

Kinda sad: On NPR, they were saying the Senate tongue-bath for Jamie Dimon means financial reform and Dodd-Frank are over. So I guess, since we have short memories and don't learn too well, the chances of it happening all over again are excellent.

But as long as Wall Street is kept in hookers and blow, and can afford to air-freight their Ferraris to wherever in the world they're having their next debauch,it's okey doke...

Oh yeah--NPR also mentioned that 16 of the 20 people on the Senate Finance Committee, whom Mr. Dimon was testifying before, had taken campaign contributions from J.P. Morgan. So Mr Dimon had bought the judge, jury and prosecutor before he ever got there.

What a fucking government, eh?