8 Rich Jerks Who Want Your Love and Respect

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

After hoarding wealth and crashing the economy, the world’s collective animosity toward the 1% is hardly unfounded. Nonetheless, the wealthiest don’t just want all of our money… they want our love, too. Rather than compromising their greed to gain our respect, however, they prefer to whine about our contempt instead.

Here are eight wealthy bigwigs complaining that they deserve our affection:

1. “When I hear the constant vilification of corporate America, I personally don’t understand it. I would ask a lot of our folks in government to stop doing it because I think it’s hurting our country.”



- Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan CEO, wants politicians to stop picking on the wealthy executives who crashed the economy but still came out with their fortunes intact. It not only hurts Dimon’s feelings, you see, it also hurts the country.

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[Dawson Leery]

1. TARP should never have been passed.

[Warpy]

6. It needed to be passed

but those wispy little strings should have been steel cables, making sure the executives who crashed the economy got their salary and nothing else--no stock options, no bonuses and no corporate perks.

[bluedeathray]

12. Wrong - TARP should have never been enacted

1. Bankruptcy laws already on the books would have insured reorganization and continuity.

2. The members of our Democracy were almost completely united against allowing the people who ran their corporations into the ground to further profit from their malfeasance.

3. The laws that were gutted or even done away with, that permitted these excesses and corruption, were further hidden and marginalized by TARP.

4. The financial laws and policies that created a legal environment for the derivative market to exist and topple over from its' own corruption, and then being passed on to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, continues unabated. IOW - They got away with it.

"I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market..." George W Bush

[Warpy]

15. Personally, I think the banks should have been nationalized

and the culture of corruption that existed from the top down eliminated.

However, the political climate was such that the only way to keep them in business was a bailout.

[NuclearDem]

2. 7. “I could slit my wrists and people would cheer.”

Well, only one way to find out, Lloyd!

[Nay]

5. Narcissicists never kill themselves, unfortunately. They're too.....

narcissistic.

[Link Speed]

3. Jay Z?

Who gives a shit about some marginally-talented 'word-smith' who made his money off of fools who would not recognize Art if Art was chewing on their idiot asses?

[Brigid]

4. Every one of these parasites can just kiss my little white Irish butt.

Especially you, #3. "We are in their debt?" Really?

And as for you, #7, yes, we would cheer.

[hunter]

7. Income and inheritance taxes ought to be near 90% for that class of venal idiots.

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the State, because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government. Not only should he recognize this obligation in the way he leads his daily life and in the way he earns and spends his money, but it should also be recognized by the way in which he pays for the protection the State gives him. -- Theodore Roosevelt.

[Egalitarian Thug]

8. An all too short list of people that could make the world a vastly better place by leaving it. n/t

[MNBrewer]

9. Nothing a guillotine couldn't deal with.

I'm serious.

[kairos12]

10. Truly, the National Razor is the answer...

then charge the families for resharpening the blade.

[MNBrewer]

11. The aristocracy cannot be allowed to survive

[HughBeaumont]

13. They can't help it.

The One Percenters have "villain" ingrained in them. This is mild compared to real neo-fascist fucksticks like Ken Langone and Bernie Marcus.

[Ichingcarpenter]

14. Psychopaths like these are running the world

the more chaos the better they like it.
It keeps the underlings in line out of fear and primitive survival instincts., it hides their pathological tracks for greed and theft of the planet.

"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.... I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends ... and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it."
John Lennon, Interview BBC-TV (June 22, 1968)

"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is apt to spread discontent among those who are."
H.L. Mencken

"In America, the criminally insane rule and the rest of us, or the vast majority of the rest of us, either do not care, do not know, or are distracted and properly brainwashed into acquiescence."
Kurt Nimmo