The Deciders

[Dover]

Obviously 5 firms have been pre-selected to 'succeed'

First steps on U.S. rescue plans


... The meeting will include Wall Street's top chief executives: Ken Lewis of Bank of America; Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase; Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs Group; John Mack of Morgan Stanley; and Vikram Pandit of Citigroup, according to The Wall Street Journal...

...Their job is to call the winners and losers in this type of environment,..."

Though they say the capital injection plan will be wide-ranging, Treasury officials acknowledge it won't be available to everyone.

"One thing we must recognize ... some financial institutions will fail," Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Friday. "The doesn't exist to save every financial institution for its own sake."

http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/13/news/economy/kashkari/index.htm?postversion=2008101308#


I believe that leaves out at least one big player...Buffet and his interests.


Picking and choosing their meals, plumping up for a global feast. No transparency, no government,
no true freedoms (unless relative security and the appearance of freedom is enough for you). The
ugly and the benign dictators.

The primary policy shapers are members of the Roundtable

http://www.fsround.org /
http://www.fsround.org/about/membership.htm

If people think it was bad enough having these financial behemoths become a one-stop-shopping for
all kinds of businesses, just wait until they're done devouring even more companies, picking and choosing their prey amidst the ruins they created. Then we will have the equivalent of a global big brother system and no national government to speak of. In fact our government is already theirs.

But hey, lets just keep spending our energies on the comics section, the side shows...what Palin said, or what Obama really meant to say...blah, blah, blah.

[bbgrunt]

1. just like Iraq. The stealing and looting can go on

in plain sight if there is enough to distract attention.

[Dover]

2. Yeah, they don't even have to hide it. Apparently we all agree with whatever they decide.

I can remember a day when people were upset that Dick Cheney had the energy industry writing
our policies. But that was then....

We don't have a reliable group of representatives anymore. Only us. But we keep pretending
like we do because no one has figured out an alternative way around or through this....or perhaps
we keep thinking that someone will save us.

Very dangerous and so classic....