"LOL---Bernie really thinks he can change the big banks"

[dixiegrrrrl]

[tecelote]

1. Lloyd Blankfein isn't laughing.

The head of Goldman Sachs believes being singled out for criticism by Bernie Sanders represents a “dangerous moment” for the country.
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/268038-goldman-sachs-chief-sanderss-criticism-is-dangerous

[wilsonbooks]

2. LOL Lloyd is feeling the Bern

But the key quote that’s getting attention comes in Goldman Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein’s exchange with a reporter after a question on whether there should be limits to compensation:

Is it possible to make too much money? “Is it possible to have too much ambition? Is it possible to be too successful?” Blankfein shoots back. “I don’t want people in this firm to think that they have accomplished as much for themselves as they can and go on vacation. As the guardian of the interests of the shareholders and, by the way, for the purposes of society, I’d like them to continue to do what they are doing. I don’t want to put a cap on their ambition. It’s hard for me to argue for a cap on their compensation.”

So, it’s business as usual, then, regardless of whether it makes most people howl at the moon with rage? Goldman Sachs, this pillar of the free market, breeder of super-citizens, object of envy and awe will go on raking it in, getting richer than God? An impish grin spreads across Blankfein’s face. Call him a fat cat who mocks the public. Call him wicked. Call him what you will. He is, he says, just a banker “doing God’s work”

[dae]

3. He doesn't need to laugh all the way to the bank. He just

takes what he wants.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. I used to think "the bubble" they lived in was a metaphor. It is not, it is real.

Was reading a book on politics, in which it was described how Poppy Bush went to throw out the first ball at a game.
Same way Bush, and Reagan, and most other Presidents do it.

Surrounded by bodyguards, he was whisked from the WH in the helicopter, to the airport, walked the few steps to Air Force One, flew across
the country, landed, got into a tinted window limousine, was driven on cleared off empty stretches of the Cal. freeway to the stadium, walked a few steps from car to stadium tunnel entrance, surrounded by minions and guards, emerged out into the field, threw the ball, waved, and reversed his journey, took about 3 hours,

and in the entire process did not come into personal contact with anyone other than his body guards.

last week I watched Bernie work the line of people in Iowa..shaking hands, etc., like Obama did.
Then I saw Clinton, at a distance from the lines of people she was walking past.

[wilsonbooks]

7. Of course it's real. The Clintons have been living in that bubble for 40 years.

[postin4Bern]

8. Amd remember that the price tag was covered by "We the Taxpayers"!

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Indeed........how ironic. n/t

[stillwaiting]

5. It does not seem like Michael Bloomberg is either.

They do seem comfortable with Hillary.

Curious.

[roguevalley]

4. brothers. (By their own words to each other)