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Project Grudge Donating Member (228 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-10-09 03:45 AM
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CNBC's Gasparino: Goldman CEO Claiming He's 'Doing God's Work' Is 'Truly Unsettling'
CNBC's Gasparino: Goldman CEO Claiming He's 'Doing God's Work' Is 'Truly Unsettling'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-gasparino/post_439_b_351116.html

A semi-sane person at CNBC. Never thought I'd hear that.
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-10-09 06:51 AM
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1. Makes sense
Money is his god.
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-10-09 07:48 AM
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2. It's the final connection of C Street Family Cult
to Goldman Sachs, to the Fed and the Treasury, to the IMF, the revelation of who is making the decisions to hurt all of us.
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-10-09 10:21 AM
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3. maybe he thinks the financial elite are the gods and the rest of us are just ants
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-10-09 01:01 PM
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5. classic Calvanist thinking
Rich people are good because good people are rich.
Poor people are bad because bad people are poor.
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-10-09 01:20 PM
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6. I don't think it's that deep anymore
more like rich are people
poor aren't
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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-10-09 04:25 PM
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8. yep concur--the "god" IS "money$" and poor people don't have any
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Liberal Gramma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-10-09 11:03 AM
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4. Was it the smiting?
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-10-09 01:48 PM
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7. That's what Opus Dei keeps claiming: "Doing God's work."
They are also big into Banking. Could it be?
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-11-09 07:12 PM
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10. Translated, Opus Dei means 'God's work.'
I wonder how far Opus Dei HQ is from Wall St. Not far, I bet.
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-10-09 06:37 PM
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9. I would use "stupid" and "heretical", and stuff like that, but OK.
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