Will Goldman Sachs Prove Greed is God?

These A-holes are no longer happy with the “Greed is Good” mantra? Kicking it up to the Almighty now? Great job ducking those questions from Congress today. Matt Taibbi, who’s been excellent on speaking the truth behind the so-called financial “crisis,” writes in the Guardian:

The investment bank’s cult of self-interest is on trial against the whole idea of civilisation — the collective decision by all of us not to screw each other over even if we can.

So Goldman Sachs, the world’s greatest and smuggest investment bank, has been sued for fraud by the American Securities and Exchange Commission. Legally, the case hangs on a technicality.

Morally, however, the Goldman Sachs case may turn into a final referendum on the greed-is-good ethos that conquered America sometime in the 80s – and in the years since has aped other horrifying American trends such as boybands and reality shows in spreading across the western world like a venereal disease.

When Britain and other countries were engulfed in the flood of defaults and derivative losses that emerged from the collapse of the American housing bubble two years ago, few people understood that the crash had its roots in the lunatic greed-centered objectivist religion, fostered back in the 50s and 60s by ponderous emigre novelist Ayn Rand.

http://www.disinfo.com/2010/04/will-goldman-sachs-prove-greed-is-god/

The most correct term is actually:


FRAUD IS GOOD


-90% jimmy

"In God We Trust" on our money.

There is certainly nothing spiritual about money; even the big J.C. said it was Caesars and distinguished it from that which belonged to God, Caesar was virtually considered a god at the time.

However reading "In God We Trust" every time you look at money must have a subconscious effect, because I believe those people consumed by greed come to view those without as less deserving, or further away from God. This message is subliminally pervasive in our society and aimed at all income/social classes.

As a result the poor, homeless and downtrodden with less "God" in their pockets are to be feared or shunned, they’re living is increasingly criminalized, even helping them becomes a crime in some areas.

To it's extreme I believe this vague fear, disregard and general shunning led to allowing a homeless "Good Samaritan" to die on a New York sidewalk.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8225451

Whether you believe in him or not, this is the opposite of everything Jesus purportedly taught.

Goldman Sachs and other self-serving profit at all costs, corrupted institutions are at the pinnacle of this ideological heap of refuse.

Thanks for the thread, Joanne.