Goldman-Sachs senior staff arming themselves against populist uprising

[Danascot]

“I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,” said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who applied to the local police for a permit to buy a pistol. The banker had told this friend of mine that senior Goldman people have loaded up on firearms and are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank.

I called Goldman Sachs spokesman Lucas van Praag to ask whether it’s true that Goldman partners feel they need handguns to protect themselves from the angry proletariat.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=ahD2WoDAL9h0

[tridim]

1. I bet they eventually hire Xe.

:scared:

[JenGatherer]

6. I agree.

They will have their own private police force. Wait, maybe they do?

[Blue_Tires]

7. exactly...like a poster in the other thread said,

GS is just trying to find a way to make the taxpayers pay for it, first...

[PM Martin]

2. kick

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Now where would they get a silly idea like that?

[BanzaiBonnie]

4. Just because we're calling off with their heads

Actually we're not. We're more civilized than that. I just want to see them out of a job mucking around with the rest of us.


"They" don't get it.

[peacetalksforall]

5. Wow = that was great. Here it is if you don't want to scroll to the top. :;o)

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=ahD2WoDAL9h0

She has nerve. From managing director to journalist.

If only our political leaders would tell it like it is the way she did here.

Two paragraphs stand out for phrasing.

"Has it really come to this? Imagine what emotions must be billowing through the halls of Goldman Sachs to provoke the firm into an apology. Talk that Goldman bankers might have armed themselves in self-defense would sound ludicrous, were it not so apt a metaphor for the way that the most successful people on Wall Street have become a target for public rage. "

The most successful people? I think it really means the most successful crooks.

"This slip-up let the other bailed-out banks happily hand off public blame to Goldman, which is unpopular among its peers because it always seems to win at everyone’s expense. "

It's not a win at everyone's expense - it's a designation at everyone's expense. The barons and thier facilitators CHOSE Goldman-Sachs for everything. The unchosen fell here and there, not to get up again.

Republicans and the Bush family at work for the barons.

Is this the way the U.S. finishes their fall - a gun fight? From our start as a Northern European nation forgetting about the owners of the land, with a little jive about our being a melting pot to our finish which is weighted down with calculated and orchestrated hate for the melting pot ... guns guns guns. All the way through, beginning to end.

Don't come her unless you like and carry and don't mind shooting a gun.