04.04
So, the Obamessiah recently met with those dastardly banking CEO’s. Reading an article on politico, they make it all sound like Obama was all man, and that he really put those assholes in their place. For instance:
At each place around the table sat a single glass of water. No ice. For those who finished their glass, no refills were offered.
You know, because offering a refill, or at the least, offering non room temperature water is how you show someone who is boss, and here, I always thought that just made you a dick…
Anyways, proceeding on, he also gave such nice reminders as:
“Be careful how you make those statements, gentlemen. The public isn’t buying that.”
“My administration,” the president added, “is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”
You know, because we the people are nothing but an angry mob. That’s why we have to have a man like Obama in office to take care of us and tell us not to burn down the people we don’t like. Of course, he is partially right. If I was going to raise a pitchfork and round up an angry mob, I wouldn’t be heading for Wall Street, more likely Pennsylvania Avenue, but that’s another story…
Obama continued to lay down the law:
The president spoke of public outrage over the high-flying executive lifestyle. “The anger gentlemen, is real,” Obama said. He urged pay reform and said rewards must be proportional, balanced, and tied to the health and success of the company.
Now personally, I have no problem with the high-flying executive lifestyle. There is absolutely nothing wrong with such a lifestyle. In fact, most of the democratic party’s friends in Hollywood live the same lifestyle. The only problem that I could see would be if the executives ran their company into the ground by spending more money that they take in. You know, running their company like it was the United States govenrment.
But soon he was done with his tirade and inquired what these rascals had to say for themselves, which brings up this exchange:
JPMorgan’s Dimon spoke first. He began by complimenting the president on the economic team he’d assembled. And he said his industry needs to explain more directly to the American people that the economic recovery plans are already working. Dimon also insisted that he’d like to give the government’s TARP money back as soon as practical, and asked the president to “streamline” that process.
But Obama didn’t like that idea — arguing that the system still needs government capital. The president offered an analogy: “This is like a patient who’s on antibiotics,” he said. “Maybe the patient starts feeling better after a couple of days, but you don’t stop taking the medicine until you’ve finished the bottle.” Returning the money too early, the president argued could send a bad signal.
So, first he says that by living like pimps and then asking for money, they are making us angry, but then when they say that they are ok and want to start paying it back, Obama backpedals and says no? I especially like the analogy that he comes up with. As though he is a he is a doctor writing a prescription for a bailout. It’s like he’s a little scared that the banks may suddenly be able to go independant when he was so close to having them succling upon his massive welfare teat. Speaking of which, don’t the democrats dislike big medicine?
Regardless, I’m sure that this is one medicine that we won’t be taking oraly…