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Radix malorum est cupiditas.

No, they're chickens!

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What the bankers need is a cunning plan...

We need a cunning plan that cannot fail.

Well said, Baldrick.

Bankers were given powers they shouldn't have and they abused them. They were given money they shouldn't have access to and they squandered it and rewarded themselves. Central banks were established with monopolistic power over the monetary system, and they're destroying the money supply and enabling massive debts with impossibly low interest rates.

When are we going to blame the bastards who gave them these powers in the first place?

Corporations = capitalism/evil
Government = the tool liberals need to accomplish socialism

It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to find the real culprit, but liberals will go as far as blaming corporations and not look an inch further, because that would mean blaming government... no, that's not allowed.

bankers are supremely human ... fearful of not having enough, but knowledgeable about what really happens in the world of finance to know they MUST get theirs. Survival.

Knowing now how manipulative they were with math and insider knowledge, doesnt help... since almost no one getting "screwed" has the math skills to comprehend, let alone change, their non-insider position in life at this point. A little nepotism, naivety, ignorance, and greed obviously have gone a looooong way to produce this end.

GlaxoSmithKline pharma was just fined 3 BILLION dollars... but dont worry, they only probably killed people. Its just a misdemeanor, and since Corporations are People, there is no one to put in jail. Win Win.

Great work, Big Money Interests. Thanks for your help in politics.

Government is the SOLUTION here, not the problem. Letting corporations have less regulation is NOT the way to go. Corporations are not inherently evil, they are sociopaths with profit being the only goal, true, but they can be controlled with a firm hand and transparency... because PEOPLE will do whatever it takes to survive.

Bravo Tony Robinson!

@vaire2ube tell you what, hand over the overwhelming power government gave to bankers to someone else, say farmers, workers, teachers, nuns, it doesn't matter, it will be abused eventually and social injustice will happen in a large scale. Will you be hating on nuns too for screwing up the country's finances?

You don't resent corporations or the power they earned. Like you said, they're not inherently evil. You resent the power corporations don't deserve that they can only get from government.

Why are bankers greedy? Because greed and fear of loss balance each other out, it's like that for every human being. Bankers don't fear loss because they know they can always get bailed out, so their greed goes rampant.

If a government agency gave you a "license to kill" with no repercussions whatsoever, pretty soon you'd be offing people left and right like a sociopath too (mostly bankers and CEOs, right? ).

Regulations are crafted by big corporations that lobby government. So why would you resort to the problem to supply the solution?

I agree that government is the solution, the solution being "protect our freedoms". Because the minute they do things like give a central bank monopoly over the money supply, that's taking away our freedoms and handing it over in the form of unjust power to some institution.

BTW, I'm sure GlaxoSmithKline isn't going for the "badass" reputation of killing people. Three billion seems like a pretty steep fine, no matter how much money they're making.

>> ^renatojj:

@vaire2ube tell you what, hand over the overwhelming power government gave to bankers to someone else, say farmers, workers, teachers, nuns, it doesn't matter, it will be abused eventually and social injustice will happen in a large scale. Will you be hating on nuns too for screwing up the country's finances?
Bravo, sir. I don't think I've seen a trainwreck that went off the rails as spectacularly as this little bit of (il)logical gymnastics.

@ReverendTed bankers work in an industry like any other, there's nothing characteristically evil about their job or their role in society. If government, however, gave [insert random group here] the same powers it hands over to bankers these days, the corruption and damage to society would likely happen on the same scale.

TL;DR: Doesn't matter if you put Mother Teresa as chairman of the Fed.

Btw, I know you're not trying to make any sense of what I'm saying, you're just being a dick. Kudos for being so spectacular at it.

Jello Biafra once said that politicians should all wear clown suits.
Bankers should all have to wear one of those latex masks with a dildo instead of a mouth-hole~

Sounds awfully familiar and similar to what happened here in the US. But then I realize.. these are virtually the 'people' who did the same thing a few years ago here. Maybe the EU leaders will have the balls to teach some of them a lesson instead of bowing and prostrating like our leaders did.

>> ^renatojj:

Bankers were given powers they shouldn't have and they abused them. They were given money they shouldn't have access to and they squandered it and rewarded themselves. Central banks were established with monopolistic power over the monetary system, and they're destroying the money supply and enabling massive debts with impossibly low interest rates.
When are we going to blame the bastards who gave them these powers in the first place?
Corporations = capitalism/evil
Government = the tool liberals need to accomplish socialism
It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to find the real culprit, but liberals will go as far as blaming corporations and not look an inch further, because that would mean blaming government... no, that's not allowed.


that's a weird new username you got there, qm.

>> ^Xaielao:
Sounds awfully familiar and similar to what happened here in the US. But then I realize.. these are virtually the 'people' who did the same thing a few years ago here. Maybe the EU leaders will have the balls to teach some of them a lesson instead of bowing and prostrating like our leaders did.


What happened back in 2008 happened pretty much throughout the world, it wasn't confined to the US. EU banks were bailed out by the bucketload!

What's happened this time round is that Barclays Bank has been caught up in 3 major scandals all in relatively quick succession, and politicians are finally having to make noises and pretend that they're doing something about it. We'll see if it's more than just noise in the coming months, but somehow I doubt we're going to see any heavy-handed approach from the UK's current ConDem political alliance.

Edit: Tony Robinson isn't a politician, he's just an intelligent guy who's able to say what he really feels, unlike politicians who can't say anything without pissing off someone!

well after the US bankers left the banks the US government hired them...