Banksters Get Their Feelings Hurt

Awww, poor wittle banksters. They got their fee-fees hurt by the mean, old pwesident who didn't invite them to the recent oligarchy roundtable in Washington:

"On the mental list of slights and outrages that just about every major figure on Wall Street is believed to keep on President Barack Obama, add this one: When he met recently with a group of CEOs at Blair House, there was no representative from any of the six biggest banks in America.

Not one!

"If they don't hate us anymore, why weren't any of us there?" a senior executive at one of the Big Six banks said recently in trying to explain his hostility toward the president.

I don't know. Maybe he's not sure of just exactly what the f*** you've got to be hostile about, all things considered:

"The last two years have been the best ever for combined investment-banking and trading revenue at Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citigroup, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, 56, and his top deputies are in line to collect more than $100 million in delayed 2007 bonuses -- six months after paying $550 million to settle a fraud lawsuit related to the firm's behavior that year. Citigroup, the bank that needed more taxpayer support than any other, has a balance sheet 14 percent bigger than it was four years ago."

Not to mention the $12.3 trillion in interest-free loans and "other financial arrangements" you crooks got from the Federal Reserve.

The whine-fest continued:

"...POLITICO interviewed a dozen senior Wall Street denizens, including C-suite executives, investment bankers, traders and financial lobbyists, who were promised anonymity in return.

Their complaints fell along similar lines: Obama and the White House don't understand how capital markets work, don't like people who make a lot of money and relish using Wall Street as a whipping boy to score points with the left.

"He whipped everyone into a frenzy against us," said one banker."

I'm pretty sure the president didn't have much whipping to do here. The fact that you nearly collapsed the global economy and are largely responsible for putting 15 million people out of work kind of took care of that.

"A senior Wall Street lobbyist explained his feelings: "This president came into office in the midst of an economic crisis and started off by demonizing insurance companies and then going after Wall Street banks. Never did he try to bring together CEOs and say, 'We are in this together, we are Team America and we are going to go out and get things done.' That's the power you have as president. Instead this White House pushed people away and they did it consciously and they are still doing it."

Going after Wall Street banks? I guess that would include his breaking up of "too big to fail," putting a tax on your obscene bonuses, and throwing you crooked, greedy, bastards in jail where you belong. Oh, wait....

"In this together" on "Team America?" Team Screw America is more like it.

"Brad Hintz, former Lehman Brothers chief financial officer and now an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, said Wall Street did not like getting all the blame for the financial crisis. "No CEO on Wall Street expects to be loved. Since the founding of our republic, there has been a steady flow of vitriol against bankers and money interests. It goes with the territory. It's healthy," he said.

But Hintz added that "the 2009 vilification of the entire financial-services industry by the political powers went beyond the pale and struck at the self-image of the leaders of Wall Street."

Well boo frickin' hoo for you and your self-image. What about the self-image of all those people who can't sleep at night for worrying about how they're going to keep a roof over their heads and feed their families? Did you give one damn minute of thought to them while you were plotting how you could sell more worthless shit to unsuspecting investors so the next quarter's bonus would be bigger than the one before that, and you could afford more blow and hookers?

"At a public forum this year, Morgan Stanley Chairman John Mack, who typically backs Republicans but supported Obama in 2008, expressed frustration with what he viewed as the demonization of the industry.

"I'm not here to bash the administration, but I'm really disappointed," he said. "Every decision can't be a political decision. Whatever happened to doing what's right?"

What the f*** do you know about "doing what's right?" Here's what would be right. You sharing a 6x9 on C Block at San Quentin with the biggest, meanest, most sex-starved, lifer in the joint. That would be justice.