If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people
under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. - Thomas Jefferson


Showing posts with label larry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label larry. Show all posts

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Taken care of (part 2)

Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citigroup, and JPMorgan Chase had second-quarter profits totaling $13.6 billion.

Larry 'Cocks=Brains' Summers: [the profits were made possible by] ‘the extraordinary public support provided by the federal government.'
Between the lines: I gave all your tax money to my buddies, suckers!

THIS is whyipaytaxes.

read more: These Bank Profits Made Possible by Taxpayers Like You (tbm)

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Beauty rest

If you've read much of this blog at all, you have probably realized I have a beef with Larry 'Superiority comes with the penis' Summers. Not only did he encourage the economic failures of our time but he was then awarded with a position that put him in charge of the economy in the White House. Which is good, the poor downtrodden banks really need a representative at the highest levels of government to be sure their voices are heard.

I don't know if you've heard, but there is a bit of an economic situation going on out there. Something about catastrophe, meltdown, chaos... Someone should wake up Larry and see what he thinks...In case you think maybe the camera caught him in a long slumped over blink, here's another shot. A little closer up.
I don't know. Maybe he was blinking again.

I know one thing for sure, if I was in charge of the White House policy on the worlds largest economy, I think I could at least fucking stay awake at a damn press conference in front of the whole damn world!

*sigh* Larry, Larry, Larry...
When will you ever tire of displaying your ineptitude?

THIS is whyipaytaxes.

Monday, April 6, 2009

Who Knew?

Iris Mack, thats who.

So, back in 2002 this Harvard trained mathematician spotted the variety of derivatives (the very same derivatives most claim are responsible for bringing our economy to its knees) in use in the Harvard endowment fund and questioned them. And how was she rewarded?

By getting fired! Of course!

Wait, it gets a smidge better:

Who had she turned to with her concerns that led to her getting fired?
Larry "Women just don't understand science" Summers!
To finish connecting the dots, Larry is currently the White House Director of Economic Council and works with Geithner to fix our economy.

I'll summarize, eliminating my contrived questioning method above:
1.) Iris Mack graduated with a PhD in Mathematics from Harvard.
2.) A handful of months later, she accepted a position with the Harvard endowment.
3.) Within her first six months, she was positively agape at the policies and procedures in use there. It seems they were using complex derivatives that no one truly understood, in spite of the mountains of cash they were investing in them.
4.) So, she approached the guy in charge, Larry Summers, and patiently explained to Larry that if no one knew what it meant, they probably shouldn't be throwing cash at it like its going out of style. Maybe a little research first? Once we know what we are doing, maybe then we can throw all of our eggs in that basket, but until then it makes me a bit queasy. OH, and PLEASE don't expose me as being the one that raised these concerns.
5.) Larry, in turn, went straight to Iris' manager and told him to fix it.
6.) The manager fixed it by firing Iris within a few weeks of her initial report to Larry.
7.) Larry has since made a shit-tonne of money off of speaking engagements, at least occasionally explaining to all of the super-smart men that while indeed they are cute and fun to hump, women couldn't possibly understand all of the complex scientific things we menfolk know.
Many of these speaking engagements have been at organizations who are now dependent on TARP funds. In fact, he continued to speak at organizations who paid him WITH tarp funds after they had been bailed out.

As a reward for being both ignorant of the forces behind our economy's downfall and a plain ol' ignorant fool, he has been appointed as the chief economic adviser in the White House.

Find the details and some actual reporting about this story at the Boston Globe:
Ex-employee says she warned Harvard of risky moves

I don't know about you, but my confidence in the system has been strengthened. I just LOVE that they have all the same people that caused, or at least ignored this mess in positions to get us out of this mess...
Wait, wait, here's a better outro:
Giving ignorance a seat at the head of the table...

THIS is whyipaytaxes.

(I wonder if Larry ever admitted that black people, like women, just aren't able to comprehend science... Not that he would admit it on tape, but I wonder... (I can just picture him laughing off the concerns of the black female that approached him as a quaint result of affirmative action))