Posted on 04/15/2010 8:02:30 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Arrayed around a long mahogany table in the White House state dining room last week, the CEOs of the most powerful financial institutions in the world offered several explanations for paying high salaries to their employees — and, by extension, to themselves.
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But President Barack Obama wasn’t in a mood to hear them out. He stopped the conversation and offered a blunt reminder of the public’s reaction to such explanations. “Be careful how you make those statements, gentlemen. The public isn’t buying that.”
“My administration,” the president added, “is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”
The fresh details of the meeting — some never before revealed — come from an account provided to POLITICO by one of the participants. A second source inside the meeting confirmed the details, and two other sources familiar with the meeting offered additional information.
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He is such a pompos @ss. It is all about him. He is the one who is standing between them and the pitchforks. It’s ME ME ME ME ya hear!
Why does this stupid communists as@ continue to be a real fool. He is the cause for the pitchforks. Cry baby jackass for a President.
“Let’s not be harsh.”
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Au contraire.
Now more than ever is the time to be “harsh”, and every other type of politically-incorrect behavior that we’ve suppressed during the long downward spiral of the American Republic.
Well, if he is standing in front of the pitchforks - we can always hope that a disgruntled dem will give him a shove.
Most, if not all of these men work harder and smarter than anyone else, they have paid their dues through education, long hours and very hard work. They have EARNED what they made. Corporations never existed as high earning, gracious benefactors of wealth to be evenly and 'fairly' spread to the public. They have always existed for the bottom line, and that's just LIFE. Whoever has benefitted by big business, (and that's everyone who lives in a strong, safe, economically sound country, my friend), has benefitted from the gifts and hard work of the business owners and CEOs. If you don't like the way business distributes their OWN money you can always start a business of your own, if you have the ability and the energy and the willingness to work eighteen hours OR MORE a day.
GREED doesn't begin or end at Wall Street, it is something that exists just as horrendously in the homes of 'laborers', union thugs, and the midddleclass. Greed, in fact, is the reason why union thugs and parasites always want more from their employers, even if they're not willing to WORK HARDER for it.
Do you know what your economic worth is? It is whatever you can EARN out there, whatever the market will bear for your service, product or work; no more, no less.
DOPE + ROPE = HOPE!
The only thing between his corrupt Ratbags in Congress and the pitchforkings they deserve.
Pitchforks are fine but I personally like boiling pitch and fathers
Brutus killed Caesar, correct?
Hmmm, I’m thinking Hillary.
Why am I reminded of Alice’s Restaurant? >B-)
It's not businesses distributing their own money I'm concerned with, it's the huge amount of my (taxpayers) money that is gratuitously distributed to big businesses and the fat cats who run them. In the last year alone more than a trillion dollars has been "distributed" to big business in the form of the TARP bailout, AIG bailout, GM bailout and others. This makes them the "leaders" of the "parasite class".
Not exactly................
A while back a read a quote from Dimon from the Jobs Summit...Obama insisted that the banks start lending again and Dimon said that the small business community were not seeking loans, they are conserving their money because they are unsure about the future, especially with the health care debate.
Makes perfect sense to me!
“Pitchforks are fine but I personally like boiling pitch and fathers”
The only problem I see is deciding which comes first, the pitchfork or the tar and feathers?
“My administration,” the president added, “is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”
Great - love it when he plays Americans against each other...
Yep..can you blame them? Everyone with any sense knows that things are going to get worse...much worse.
Those silver-haired guys better wake up and realize that Obama HATES white people, esp white men like them. There is NOTHING they can do which will appease him. He WILL screw them over in time.
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