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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGuess who came to the white house today?
President Barack Obama is meeting today with 15 heads of the worlds biggest banks, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS)s Lloyd C. Blankfein and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM)s Jamie Dimon, White House officials said.
The state of the U.S. economy will be among the topics for the discussion, which will also include Bank of America Corp. (BAC)s Brian T. Moynihan, Citigroup Inc. (C)s Michael Corbat, American International Group Inc. (AIG)s Robert Benmosche and Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC)s John Stumpf, according to an administration official, who requested anonymity because the meeting is private.
The CEOs arrived at the White House at about 10:30 a.m. Washington time and went inside without making any comments.
http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-10/obama-is-said-to-plan-meeting-with-dimon-moynihan-this-week.html
MY comment? Something is in the air and it doesn't smell good . I wonder what they had for lunch?
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)winterpark
(168 posts)money we the little people have left.
dgibby
(9,474 posts)Paul Krugman, and Robert Reich are there, too, but somehow, I doubt it.
Baitball Blogger
(46,658 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)Love to be a "fly on the wall" for that one.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)Remember Obama's Promise to Cheering Thousands..."And I Promise YOU...that THIS WILL BE the most TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION in HISTORY!
The Crowd WENT WILD!
The more things change..the more they aren't different...
Cleita
(75,480 posts)identifies with. He's one of them. No wonder he is such a disappointment. Is there no one out there who cares about the 99% of Americans? Another DUer has posted about this. I hope he puts some information on your thread if he's posting today.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Bankers and celebs at the White house for private soirees=good. Kids on vacation who want to tour history... not so much.
Erose999
(5,624 posts)them throw their food away because the kids can't pay.
forestpath
(3,102 posts)avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)Just like GWB.
Armstead
(47,803 posts)"You really showed those damn leftists a thing or two."
deutsey
(20,166 posts)to eat their bacon.
Boomerproud
(7,935 posts)what they need is a damned good whacking.
George Harrison's mum actually wrote that second line. God bless Louise Harrison.
BTW, Mr. President, please pass my "good wishes" to Jamie Dimon whose decision to downsize my department at Chase has made my life hell for the last 1 1/2 years.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Makes you wonder if our eyes are on the correct ENEMY. You know, the ones ACTUALLY RESPONSIBLE for the corrupt state we've been in for 4 decades? Those . .. oh, what do they call themselves . . . oh yes, the "Extremely Productive"?
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)adigal
(7,581 posts)by our own corporations and leaders.
Americans can be distracted every time.
CrispyQ
(36,411 posts)while they discussed how to cut the hot lunch program for kids & Meals on Wheels for seniors.
Fuckers.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)... will be along to explain to you how this is necessary to the 111th dimensional chess strategy to strike another blow deep into the heart of the evil, evil, evil, wicked Republican Bad Cop.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)and sent them all off to Gitmo... in my dreams
Good Grief talk about all the BANKSTERS in one place
Meanwhile:
Elizabeth Warren Wants HSBC Bankers Jailed for Money Laundering
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/03/elizabeth-warren-wants-hsbc-bankers-jailed-for-money-laundering/
And the Libor scandal gets thrown out in the US
whathehell
(29,024 posts)Let's NOT get fooled again!
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)whathehell
(29,024 posts)I'm not that stupid and I don't feel "alone" in that respect.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Look at Kucinich.
He was treated like a joke even though he won every debate.
whathehell
(29,024 posts)Electing a TRUE democrat doesn't have to mean putting up someone like Kucinich.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)whathehell
(29,024 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)whathehell
(29,024 posts)Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)debate at Soldier's Field. Now, look at the people here and read their reactions to such "revelations", and these are our friends.
No Liberal-Populist will ever be allowed as a choice for the people again. The people who decide know that person would win and that's why they bought both teams. No more Huey Long's, Eugene Debs, or even RFKs in our future.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)All they've been doing is trying to save it.
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)GiveMeFreedom
(976 posts)he's letting them know which part of the MIC they need to finance for the next war about to start, and it is not necessarily North Korea. That is how the oligarchs truly make there money, from war.
ON EDIT: These assholes are probably his true war council.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,867 posts)He'll have more freedom and be more progressive in his 3rd term.
Its congresses fault.
This was just 23 dimensional chess, you aren't capable of understanding his brilliant strategy.
You never liked him anyways.
You lefties are going to ruin the party.
Did I leave anything out?
progressoid
(49,917 posts)Would you rather have President Palin?
He has to be president for EVERYONE.
And some new ones yet to come!
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,867 posts)I'm one of the people who defended this President tooth and nail against detractors on the left. I feel like an idiot now. I honestly laid there in bed last night for a good hour second guessing a lot of things because of this. I just don't understand.
whathehell
(29,024 posts)Needless to say, she didn't go for it.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)I thought it was going to be Bernie Sanders and the Progressive Caucus.
KarenS
(4,059 posts)DJ13
(23,671 posts)My guess, sauteed peon.
HangOnKids
(4,291 posts)Served on a crouton of catviar, smothered in a side soufflé of peasant.
DJ13
(23,671 posts)I guess I'll go make another Fancy Feast sandwich and pretend its steak.
HangOnKids
(4,291 posts)You will need the water soon.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Auggie
(31,125 posts)RevStPatrick
(2,208 posts)...of South Park from right after the 2008 election was much more prescient than even I would like to think:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About_Last_Night..._%28South_Park%29
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s12e12-about-last-night
robinlynne
(15,481 posts)HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)Nice gig if you can get it.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...the success of the Cyprus Gambit.
They've discovered that direct stealing from bank accounts is so much more efficient than:
(1) Paying for elections of corrupt officials to pass corrupt ''tax'' laws and then;
(2) Having to setup an agency to collect the ''taxes'' and then;
(3) Hire ''tax'' revenue agents to steal for that agency.
This way they've reduced corporate costs and the need for exorbitant employee overhead, such a salaries, health benefits and retirement pensions. And maybe they'll also discuss that they're even considering an IMF-ATM card that allows someone like Lloyd Blankfein or Jamie Dimon to just zip their little cards into any IMF-ATM worldwide and steal whatever amount of cash they need from any nation, and any citizen, in any country because.... well just because they can!
- And I think free WH meals was included in the special ''Wall Street campaign donations'' program too.
K&R
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)but unpaid internships, a 55-year-old who's been out of work for two years, a small business owner who has gone bankrupt, an IT worker who lost his/her latest job to an H-1B, the mayor of a town where the major employer packed up and moved production to China, and a family that was foreclosed on.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)The senior skipping half the doses of his meds because he can't afford to take them as prescribed.
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)And Dennis Miller was the entertainment.
Peregrine Took
(7,412 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)And the menu? Probably something you and I have never even heard of.
santamargarita
(3,170 posts)MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)Delivery time.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)and consenting adults
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)But it doesn't sound good.
Woe, despair, and misery on me.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)The White House had set the agenda for the meeting, a source familiar with the situation said, and the ongoing reform of Wall Street - a hot issue for bank lobbyists - did not appear prominently on the list of topics.
"The president discussed with the business leaders the need to work together on a number of important issues affecting business confidence, economic growth and job creation," a White House official said in an emailed statement.
The bankers were all members of the Financial Services Forum, which was holding its day-long spring meeting, according to the White House official. The Forum, a prominent bank lobby, said the dialogue had been "constructive."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/11/us-obama-banks-idUSBRE93A0Z620130411
"emailed statement"...THAT is what passes for reporting nowdays?? Printing emailed news from the WH?
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Thank you for underscoring the other huge issue in this thread. Our media, which should serve as a fundamental check against government corruption and abuse, has been as systematically purchased, diverted, and corrupted as our government.
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)kenny blankenship
(15,689 posts)Then there were the meets with the Big Pharmaceutical Co.s and Insurers before the Insurance Mafia Guaranteed Profits Act was pushed.
Could be time for mandatory bank accounts with the Big Five Banks for "streamlining of Income Tax records" and/or the phase-out of paper money and coinage issued by the Treasury in favor of all-privatized money supply on Big Bank issued plastic. Something nice and 100% mandatory for your democratic enjoyment... Time will tell.