[Boiling Pots]

No one can actually figure out what Robert Rubin did at Citi to “earn” $115 million since 2000.

This whole bailout is the biggest scam ever perpetrated on a taxpaying public.

Trillions to bail out people who personally earned hundreds of millions.

Damn Bush and Paulson straight to Hell.

[WayneS]

It sounds like maybe they just DID figure out what he did to “earn” $115 Million since 2000.

I agree whole-heartedly with the sentiment in the final sentence of your post. I’d add Congress, in its entirety, to the list, though.

[bert]

.....Damn Bush and Paulson straight to Hell.....

Apparently you are not paying attention and especially did not read this article.

W acted to expose the bad guys and force their hands. He merely showed the world the problem. He did not create it. History will show that the expose’ just before the election was shrewd political foresight

Clinton et al.....Robert Rubin, Jamie Gorelick etc are the unjustly enriched bad guys. If W did not expose the crimes Obama got elected it would never be exposed. The calamity would have happened in some form any way.

Your reflexive Bushbash is totally without merit

[Liz]

Trillions to bail out people who personally earned hundreds of millions. Damn Bush and Paulson straight to Hell..........Even Pres Bush was willing to give the USofA away to Paulson and Bernanke.

G/S insiders are bailing out the very crooks who contributed to the economy's meltdown. G/S Paulson put his G/S henchman Neel Kashkari, to oversee the $700B bailout. Conflict of interest anybody?

........POS Paulson also wanted to exempt the bailout from any judicial, legislative, and regulatory review.......can you guess why?

GOLDMAN SACHS SCREWS US AGAIN Secy Pavelson told Congress bailout billions would be used for one purpose then the foxy, wily Pavelson changes horses in midstream and decides to use the billions for something else. Typical Wall Street chicanery. The heck with Congress enacting the bailout law for one use. Pavelson personally decides he and the G/S guys will use it for "something else."

As US citizens line up at soup kitchens and sell apples on street corners, Pavelson, Kashkari, and the G/S frat boys are cashing in bigtime......numbered offshore bank accounts, "parking" money at Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street entities; the wire-transfers must be burning up.

The late economist John Kenneth Galbraith blamed Goldman Sachs for policies causing the Great Depression of '29. In his book, The Great Crash, 1929, Galbraith, a key figure in JFK's admin, an entire chapter titled “In Goldman, Sachs, We Trust,” details the “large-scale corporate thimblerigging” that Goldman and other Wall Streeters practiced in the 1920s.

G/S frat boys at the highest levels of govt are now pulling the levers of power. Watching them operate, we know Goldman types promote their own interests relentlessly...........the rest of us be damned.

Heaven help us.

[fortunecookie]

Sadly, when you're amassing 115 million over 8 or so years, a lot of little people who work under you are earning less and losing their jobs. It smacks of robbery. The bailout hopefully (and I know it's a longshot) will bail out the company for those employees who do their jobs, follow the company rules, and if not already out of work, are certainly job endangered. It seems Citi was raped of millions with the employees and clients alike damned. It's a negative trickle down economics.

Rubin should explain just what he's been doing. He may just be the Milken or Lay of this year. And should he be found to be in violation, and prosecuted, let's hope he's not pardoned in the future by our next president.