Executives from Goldman Sachs had to face the music this week on Capitol Hill, and answer questions about their criminal practices that cost the economy billions of dollars while putting millions of dollars into the pockets of Goldman’s top brass. Mike Papantonio appears on The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News to talk about why these hearings are necessary to flush out the criminals on Wall Street.
Once again….blame the victim. Oh, Jonathan didn’t know what Goldman Sachs did wrong? See here: http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latest-news/i-wouldnt-trust-you
And here
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latest-news/e-mails-show-goldman-boasting-meltdown-unfolds
As Mike saiud these hearings are needed to stop the corrupt system.
As Michael Moore said on Larry King Live and Keith Olbermann and in his movie “Capitalism”…..”Wall Street is the scene of the crime. These people belong in jail. The American people want their money back.”
BTW, The Bill Moyers Journal airs for the last time on Friday. I wanted to let all ROF listeners to know the last guest Moyers will be interviewing is Jim Hightower. I will be recording this show and watch it on the weekend. Check your local PBS channel’s schedule for this Friday. If you don’t have PBS, go to their web site. I’m sure they will be posting this show and you can watch it online.
Bill Moyers wants to retire. He’s been at politics since the LBJ administration.
Indeed, a white man in an Armani suit can steal more money than a black man with a gun (sorry if that sounds racist or racy).
When it comes to Wall St. and the SEC unadulterated and unsupervised, it reminds me of this Simpsons clip:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/23450/the-simpsons-buying-porn
NR,
LOL! That clip says it all about the SEC! So why should we trust the SEC to do it’s job now?
Great little article about Elizabeth Warren.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/must-read/elizabeth-warren-worlds-2-most-influential-thinker
I thought it was one of the better interviews as Mike got to make his points, which were very good.
Right now in America there seems to be two forms of justice. One for the rich and one for the poor. It is not a race issue as their are poor whites who live in just as much poverty as Blacks. It is a class issue. When I was working in Hilton Head, SC I worked security and one of the guys I worked with was Black and we were talking and he made a realy good point about it was a class issue and not a race issue. That poor Whites and Blacks need to work together as we were in the same boat. The rich keep getting richer and the rest of us are deeper into debt just to survive. Instead of us fighting each other we need to realize that it is a class struggle and work together as one so that all workers are paid a living wage. It is a sin I think for some people to make hugh profits off the backs of their workers when their workers are struggling just to make ends meat every month.
I also think that all those who have broken the trust of the American people by lying, by being corrupted and doing what you are told to do instead of doing what you know is right, and those who don’t care that their actions are causing this country to continue on the sucide path we are on; should be punished just as much as the large corporations who bribed them. But the reality is that they won’t be punished for their crimes.
They all were wearing red ties, but only Mike’s was a solid one…..
Okay, onto the substance of it all: Jonathan make it seem like Goldman Sachs is jusy, by Golly, trying to do what they do best: make a profit.
It all sounds good, unless you are the one who gets ripped off. And it sounds like, by “you” I mean all of US!
I hope they go after more than just Goldman Sachs, though. Surely, other companies are equally at fault? No matter – let’s get Someone on the chopping block, already – some company that thought it could play fast and loose w/Our money.
As Elizabeth Warren says in the current Rolling Stone, these “too big to fail” companies and banks KNOW that the govt. will keep bailing them out. She says that’s mightly powerful insurance that the companies get from US – and for FREE!!!!
They get to stay afloat while we all drown.
I wish I could write that Jonathan strikes me as an amoral little c*!$kS#*K#r, but that would be wrong, plus I don’t care what he does w/his private life, at all, but when he starts in on how terrible it is to, in effect, prosecute “Capitalism” I just want to puke my guts out, all over the place, preferably on His tie, which annoys me (but the Host’s tie was very nice. Mike’s tie was nice, but he shouldn’t be afraid to wear a very bold tie; he can carry it off).
Okay, I will say more, later, and try to make it as relevant as I can…..
It’s a Class issue AND a race issue, but i disagree w/Jim Hightower: it’s very Much a liberal vs. conservative issue, or, if you will: a religiously fundamentalistic mindset vs. a sensible, freedom-loving, “live and let live” mindset.
Chrisy and Mara, you made go points about class and race issue. However, as long as poor white people don’t see the class issue, they will continue to knock the blacks down which in effect will keep themselves down as Brooker Washington point out. Also as some blacks keep knocking down poor whites, they will also their themselves down. I have met a good number of blacks in managerial positions and as rank and file who knock everyone else down and undermining unions while at the same time complain that the union hasn’t help them and complain how hard it is being a manager.
Speaking of management, here is a link about Americans hating performance reports http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2010/04/27/performance-reviews/?icid=main|htmlws-main-n|dl4|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fjobs.aol.com%2Farticles%2F2010%2F04%2F27%2Fperformance-reviews%2F
I agree with some of the commentaors who state that managers should be evaluate by workers in their performance reports.
G, you do make good points about how whites and blacks often fight each other, when, especially those in the lesser income brackets, would do better to work together.
Poor whites are often quite racist; that’s my direct observation. And blacks have reason to be defensive, then, given this, plus, the terrible legacy of slavery lingers on.
Still, it’s sad, the hostilities between whites and blacks that come from both sides.
So, when Jim Hightower talks about it being about up and down, not left or right, I’m not inclined to agree, much. The less well off fight each other instead of being mad at wall st.
They get plenty mad at the govt. And religious blacks fought the passing of the marriage bill in California, so, just like religious whites, churches can oppose liberty, even though they do other, good things in the name of God.
It angers me, but what can you do?
Mara, from my own observation and experience, too many blacks get too defensive about even over trivia matter. You tried to point out some minor error in their work or conduct in a tactful, and they blow up at you and star. However, if you blow up at them over the same situation, they say things like “calm down” or they write you up. They can get to be pretty hyprocrities at times. They do the same things that they always complain about white people and while using past history of discrimination an excuse to cover up their misconduct in the workplace. After a while, it gets tiring and it is like dealing with police officers who tried to justify their misconduct under the disguise of law and order. By the way, the NYPD cop who body slamm that bicyclist got convicted of lying but did not get convicted for harassment and assault. He should have been convicted for assuault.
I left out the word “manner”. You tried to point out some minor error in their work or conduct in a tactful “manner”. and they blow up at you.