From Politico:
Michael Bloomberg isn’t leaving office until January but Wall Street
is already beginning to miss the New York City mayor — and bracing for a
possible backlash from his replacement.
In his 12 years leading
the city, Bloomberg has been a vocal champion of New York’s business and
banking communities. When the knives have come out, he has time and
again come to the defense of the financial services industry without
batting an eye at the political reality that advocating for Wall Street
is a highly unpopular move for public officials.
Now as Bloomberg nears the end of his time in office, Wall Street
executives say forlornly that there is no one to step in and fill his
role as the public defender of their industry.
Because the industry that brought about the '08 economic collapse needs a public defender.
Oh, what will they do without Bloomberg if and when ex-Goldman employees take to the NY Times opinion pages to write about what evil scum the banksters are?
Who will soothe the fears of those sad, sad banksters and make sure they sleep soudly at night, knowing nothing they do will ever be held against them?
What will they do without Bloomberg?
Well, let's see - Andrew Cuomo is pretty close to the Wall Street banskters.
So is Chuck Schumer.
Somehow the Clintons became multimillionaires even though they didn't have a pot to piss in (as my father would say) when they were in the White House.
Bet that didn't happen without Wall Street's help.
And of course President Obama is putting Larry Summers, a Wall Street shill, in charge at the Fed post-Bernanke to make sure all goes well for the banksters.
You know, guys, I think it's going to be all right post-Bloomberg.
I think you'll survive and thrive.
You might even find that Bill de Blasio, who worked under Cuomo at HUD, who worked for the Clintons, will be very amenable to your needs.
In fact, I would bet my VAM that will happen.
As Obama in 2008, de Blasio says whatever he needs to say to get elected.
This year, that meant staking out "progressive" territory to the left of Thompson and Quinn.
But de Blasio is no "progressive" - he is a politician who has come up through the American political system.
You can bet he'll work with you.
After all, what American politician doesn't?
i agree with you absolutely. And what are we the dumb American public going to do about it, as we are fleeced upside down and backwards. Left with nothing.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, read Chris Hedges.
How long are we going to allow this?
A good question. Looks like things are still going to have to get worse for people to rise up. I thought Occupy was a beginning, but it was suppressed with the help of the oligarchs. But it will arise again, in some other form.
Delete"What American politician DOESN'T work with you (Big Bankers).
ReplyDeleteOh we'll...John F. Kennedy...and Abraham Lincoln. Both of these Presidents were attempting to wrest control from Big Banking when assassinated. Lincoln was printing the " greenback", and JFK began printing silver backed U.S. notes - the true currency of the people. President Andrew Jackson expelled Big Banking from the Federal Government...YET managed to survive to tell his tale.
We are all slaves to Big Banking at this time.
Strange how all of the host "Arab Spring" countries were fighting to free themselves from the petrodollar system at the time of their "liberation." Iraq as well was beginning to free herself from the dominant Central Banking system, before invasion.
(All Wars Are Banker Wars)
Http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfEBupAeo4
It is true that the titans of finance have their mitts in everything and every so-called "crisis" seems to benefit them in the end.
DeleteJust a coincidence, I guess...and after the fall of Presidents and countries, the currency is immediately monopolized by the Central Banking system.
ReplyDeleteA central bank that keeps inflating the currency and yet, claims there is no inflation...
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