Wall Street Execs Whine To Politico About Their Hurt Feelings

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Wall Street Execs Whine To Politico About Their Hurt Feelings

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/28/wall-street-whines-to-pol_n_801935.html

Jason Linkins | [e-mail] | HuffPost Reporting



This morning's Politico features another piece ("Obama and Wall St.: Still Venus and Mars") in a continuing series that presents us with Wall Street people of varying renown whining about all those times White House higher-ups have ever-so-mildly allowed certain language to slip from their larynxes that makes the financial industry out to be some kind of villain for that time their over-leveraged, incompetent speculation led to the near-collapse of the entire economy and required taxpayers to shovel untold billions of dollars at too-big-to-fail banks so that they could survive. They are sad, you see, and the record-setting profits they have made are no comfort to them, because hey, maybe The Huffington Post will say something really mean! That is literally a thing that appeared in a newspaper, today!

But despite recent White House efforts to reach out to Wall Street, bankers believe Obama is much more worried about perceptions on the left.

As evidence, bankers point to recent White House meetings with labor leaders, Geithner's dinner with the heads of progressive groups, and Vice President Joe Biden's recent pledge to fight against the top-rate tax cuts again in two years.

And it is this, as much as anything, that gets under Wall Street's collective skin.

"All that people in this White House seem to worry about is what the Huffington Post is going to say if they do something, anything, remotely pro-business," one financial executive said. "They really don't care what we think at all."

[Angry Dragon]

1. And I think they should all be in jail

I wonder what they will say about me??

[jotsy]

2. These prissy little posers sound like they never moved beyond the political

nature of a fourth grader. I won't be wanting breakfast for awhile.

Recommended, thanx AV

[bluerum]

3. They just don't know when to STFU do they.

[theaocp]

4. If this is Obama when he's anti-business

I'd hate to see the kinds of bonuses and profits when he's pro-business. Fucking Christ on a stick. I want my post to stay, so I won't type what I think should happen to all the "folks" on Wall St. Use your imagination and you're still nowhere near it.

[damntexdem]

5. Hmm, the whines aren't loud enough -- obviously the hurt is insufficient.

Yeah, it's time for much, much more hurt. Turn those whines into howls.

[lafayettelonewolf]

6. Wall Street Whiners

"Whaaaa.... Whaaaaa... I want all your mooonnneeeeyyy! Whaaa... Whaaa..." Oh...my...gawd...what a bunch of trailer park crybaby warmongering trash those Wall Street banksters are! They just all need to shut the fuck up!

[freethought]

7. Someone please tell me why govt. has to be pro-business

all the time?

As I see it many of the problems that this country has to solve for itself are made more difficult to near impossible due to the activities of business interests.

We should have busted ass to get off of imported oil, BUT big petroleum interests, auto industry, commodities traders, and the like use their lobbying power to keep status quo and fend off any substantive changes.

We should have broken up these too-big-to-fail banks, BUT neither side of the congressional aisle seems to have even the slightest nerve to do so.

We should be cutting our defense expenses, BUT defense contractors seem to get their way time and time again.

Need I go on?

Why should we care what they think? Government cannot and should not be pro-business all the time. Looking out for the public interest will sometimes mean that business should not get anything and everything it wants.