Who Do You Hate More: BP or GOLDMAN SACHS?

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" This oil spill thing has people heated! And BP CEO Tony Hayward… what a dickhead. Oh, but remember Goldman Sachs? That filthy rich, monolithic investment banking monster that basically destroyed the global economy? Yeah. Who do you hate more?


It's a good question, really, and it's one that I've discussed recently among friends. A good case can certainly be made for either company being the worst on the planet. Goldman Sachs employees must love all of the attention the Gulf oil spill is getting, because before BP stole the spotlight the folks at Goldman were some of the most reviled people in the world. Both companies are under investigation, both are making the world a shittier place, and both are headed by very hateable people. And all of this while still making a fortune. So before we forget how much we all hated Goldman Sachs just a short time ago, let's make some comparisons!




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The Face of the Company


BP: CEO Tony Hayward

This guy just can't seem to do anything right. He's always saying the worst possible thing at the worst possible time. And that apology commercial that BP is running, starring Hayward? Bad idea, guys. But really, he's so sorry!


The Offense

BP: Destroying the Gulf coast, and all of the wildlife that lives there and the jobs and people who depend on it. They're making the Exxon Valdez look like a joke. And it's not even close to being over yet, with about 10,000 barrels of crude still gushing into the Gulf of Mexico every 24 hours. The Coast Guard is soliciting outside help, the cleanup will take years, and the area will never be the same.


The Face of the Disaster

BP: By now, we've all seen the horrifying pictures of birds struggling and dying in a sea of brown sludge, or, as BP might call it, "brown gold."




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The Face of the Company


Goldman Sachs: CEO Lloyd Blankfein

This smarmy little bastard is so hateable on so many levels. During his Congressional testimony he smirked and grinned and seemed utterly stunned that anyone would even question Goldman's motives for robbing the country blind and dismantling the housing market one synthetic CDO at a time. Ah yes, "The Lloyd Face."



The Offense


Goldman Sachs: Destroying the economy. While you suddenly went from shopping for vacation properties and nice handbags to clipping coupons for baked beans and digging for pocket change in your sofa, Lloyd Blankfein was wiping his ass with your 401k and probably laughing about it. And let's not forget the "Fab" emails.


Goldman Sachs: People's home values, jobs, and retirement money went straight down the shitter (or straight into Fab Tourre's wallet).



So here are just a few reasons for you to hate BP and Goldman Sachs. The list could go on and on, but you get the idea. Let us know what you think. Feel the hate!



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[ellie]

1. BP by far

[marmar]

2. Goldman Sachs' overarching reach makes it much more harmful....

Their tentacles are wrapped around so many economic/political/social disasters right now.

[snappyturtle]

3. They're both despicable. However, BP has murdered 11 men

and is attacking animal life for the foreseeable future.

[lpbk2713]

4. Bush

The corrupt and evil BushCo Regime enabled both of them.

[notesdev]

5. Goldman, no doubt

at least BP exists for a productive purpose - GS exists for no purpose other than to siphon money from you and me.

[SidDithers]

6. I hate GOLDMAN SACHS more...

because at least BP makes SOMETHING. They produce and supply the oil that our CURRENT society needs to operate. GOLDMAN SACHS does nothing but move PAPER around, making money from phantom transactions and specultion on the labour of OTHERS.

Sid

[superduperfarleft]

7. HELEN THOMAS!!!!!

[Scuba]

8. Don't make me decide, it's too hard.

[izquierdista]

9. If you said BP

You are forgetting who fronts them their money.

[xchrom]

10. they are joined at the hip for me. nt

[hobbit709]

15. +1000

[blindpig]

11. It's all of a piece, it's Capitalism.

If some seem worse than others it's only because they haven't had the opportunity. Shareholders uber alles.

[harun]

12. Both of them have and are doing serious meddling in world affairs

but I have to go with BP because of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP#Activity_in_1909.E2.80.931979

GS is on a fast track to best them on the effing up the world for profit front.

[FirstTimeVoterAt37]

13. I guess BP

Just because there's a very very very very tiny chance of a very very very very tiny bit of justice with GS, even if it eventually comes down to citizens with pitchforks and torches. However, I do reluctantly believe that the effects of this catastrophe will never go away and this is a pernament net loss in the universe. If every single member of BP management gets put away for life (and I pray they do), it still won't be justice because there is nothing that will ever ever make up for this.

[Javaman]

14. Why do I have to choose?

contrary to popular belief, our government should be able to convict both. :)

[laughingliberal]

16. Both. Along with elected officials who have been whoring for them.

The destruction of the planet by BP, along with the economic destruction might push them a wee bit to the front for me but they are both very representative of the abuses which have put people and planet in peril.

The lawmakers who passed legislation to allow these abuses are no better, maybe worse. Neither of these companies could have foisted this destruction on us without the compliance of our bought and paid for elected officials.

[Spheric]

17. There's a difference? Who knew? /nt