9 Greedy CEOs Trying to Shred the Safety Net While Pigging Out on Corporate Welfare
http://www.alternet.org/economy/9-greedy-ceos-trying-shred-safety-net-while-pigging-out-corporate-welfare
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1. Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and CEO, Goldman, Sachs & Co. Blankfein, infamous for describing his financial activities as “God’s work,” shared his attitude toward society with CBS news recently. He explained his keen desire to see Americans lowering their sights for the future. You really have to watch the interview to get the full flavor of Blankfein’s smug assurance that predation can be sold as concern for the nation’s well-being. In addition to trotting out several myths about Social Security’s design and functions, including the bogus notion that retirement age must be raised , he gives a pithy summary of what life is going to be like for the 99 percent:
“You’re going to have to do something, undoubtedly, to lower people’s expectations of what they’re going to get, the entitlements, and what people think they’re going to get, because you’re not going to get it.”
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2. Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO, General Electric Company . In 2011, President Obama welcomed outsourcing pioneer Jeffrey Immelt to his White House inner circle as chair of a newly created jobs council – a move that was a sharp slap in the face to American workers. Immelt returned the favor by dumping Obama in favor of Mitt Romney in the recent election .
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3. Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co. At a recent gathering of the Council on Foreign Relations, Jamie Dimon vented his feelings about a number of things that peeve him, from a federal lawsuit brought against JPMorgan Chase to Obama’s failure to adopt the harmful and misguided Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan, which, among other things, recommended reducing the tax rate for top earners. Dimon has claimed that his bank did not need the TARP funds bestowed on it by the federal government, but there is no question that today his bank borrows funds more cheaply than smaller banks because of the federal government’s implicit too-big-too-fail guarantee.
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4. W. James McNerney, Jr., chairman, president and CEO, the Boeing Company . McNerney launched at Procter & Gamble, reached high altitude at GE and shot to the stratosphere by becoming head honcho at Boeing in 2005.
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inner circle to help him guide OUR nation.
America will never thrive as long as our government recognizes these elite thieves for what they are; a drain on our economy. Corporate rule is indisputable in America. Unless we stop this (and end CU through legislation) average Americans will always be the suckers in our society. If all else fails (and it has so far) we must take to the streets by the millions and be responsible for our own changes.
These CEO's are not people to be admired. They are worse than the trash on the street.... Organized criminals
It boggles the mind that they've been able to get away with it so long. Reagan turned CEOs into psychopathic douchebags who couldn't give less of a shit about their workers. They've been waging war on us and they're winning no matter who is in charge. Time to make these greedy bastards pay. 
yesterday as well. WTF? He sounded like he was reading the RW Talking Points. I swear if the Dems are getting ready to go spineless again......
