WHY do New York Times' columnists MAUREEN DOWD's _FOUR SENTENCES_ explain the BILLIONS of TAXPAYER DOLLARS that _GOLDMAN-SACHS_ has TAKEN from AMERICAN TAXPAYERS, better than ANYTHING you will read in the "FINANCIAL press"?
The answer is because GOLDMAN SACHS _OWNS_ BOTH political parties:
PRESIDENT BUSH's TREASURY SECRETARY, HANK PAULSON, was from GOLDMAN SACHS, as was PRESIDENT CLINTON's _Treasury Secretary_, ROBERT RUBINS, who is also NOW PRESIDENT OBAMA's TOP eocnomic advisor!
ROBERT RUBIN, LAWRENCE SUMMERS, HANK PAULSON, and JIM CRAMER - ALL are either Goldman-Sachs alumni, or in Summers' case, a "consultant" to the firm that WOULD BE BANKRUPT were it not for BILLIONS upon BILLIONS upon BILLIONS of TAXPAYER BAILOUT dollars. And the above "Four Mousketeers of Goldman-Sachs ENTITLEMENT, BAILOUT FRAUD" doesn't even include MARK PATTERSON, the guy Obama's hapless & INCOMPETENT current "Treasury Secretary," TIM GEITHNER, selected to be his #2 man at Treasury:
MARK PATTERSON, a _FORMER GOLDMAN SACHS LOBBYIST!"
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-01-27-lobbyist_N.htm
(Dowd's commentary does mention Patterson - one of the rare few media mentions of his name, anywhere!)
And Maureen Dowd is THE FIRST commentator we have read, ANYWHERE, who mentions the __"BACK DOOR"__ methods the big banks use to SUCK UP TAXPAYER DOLLARS, while PRETENDING that they don't.
Because GIVING BILLIONS of TAXPAYER DOLLARS to FRAUDULENT BANKSTERS, is what BOTH DEMOCRATS and REPUBLICAN politicians do!
Maureen Dowd's FOUR SENTENCES, plus one addressing US TAXPAYER BAILOUT BILLIONS going to FOREIGN banks... including UBS, which has a SERIAL, CHRONIC reputation for DEFRAUDING American taxpayers by HARBORING American TAX CHEATS!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/opinion/22dowd.html
At the New York Fed, Geithner helped preside over the A.I.G. bailout in September. But in October, it was Andrew Cuomo, the New York attorney general, who had to threaten to sue unless A.I.G. canceled $160 million in planned expenses for conferences and a $600 million bonus pool.
Virtually unnoticed amid the bonus imbroglio was A.I.G.’s grudging disclosure that it had funneled $93 billion — more than half its federal money to date — to its high-flying insurees, including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and a group of European banks.
Goldman Sachs separately got $10 billion in bailout money last year, but recently asserted snootily that it’s doing well enough and doesn’t want our money because of the restrictions attached. Yet as Goldman sneers at the federal money at the front door, it’s taking delivery of billions in no-strings federal money through the back door. Can we taxpayers deduct the difference?
Our gift to Goldman demonstrates why the government’s headless and heedless bailout of A.I.G. is so wrong.
And why are we bailing out foreign banks, including a couple of French ones and UBS, a Swiss bank currently tussling with the I.R.S. because it refuses to hand over the names of thousands of U.S. tax-dodgers?
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