Bankers are Wankers
Last year American bankers paid themselves $18.4 billion in bonuses during the period the whole system was spinning out of control.
President Obama has, rightly, condemned them.
There are currently riots in Paris over the French Government's bank bail-out plans. It is understandable that there is going to be mounting anger amongst the average Joe Public in a number of countries when it becomes clear how disgusting the behaviour of the banking community has been in recent years.
I doubt that public anger will be assuaged until or unless they start seeing a few more of these parasites being consigned to a prison cell.
And talking of bail-outs, why are America and Britain now in the process of giving financial assistance to the automotive industry? What are people who work in other industries and services to think whilst they are being closed down and made redundant? Surely, once you decide selectively that one industry deserves saving, then natural justice dictates that all are worth some assistance, and yet we see thousands of people losing their jobs every week, and we see the Woolworths chain closed down and boarded up in every High Street.
The world is in financial meltdown through the greedy and immoral activities of an entire breed of people who were once looked up to as the model of probity and respectability. How did they get from that place to this place where they are looked down upon as greedy, grasping, selfish, idiotic, blinkered, self-centred wankers?
They got there because our governments were stupid enough to let them.
Riot, anyone?
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