Goldman Sach runs the world?

Who the hell cares? :p

Chances are if they get that high up in Goldman Sachs, they're intelligent people. Hardly incapable at what they do... It's not like they're foreign ministers, they're either white house staff or related to the treasury.

I think a lot of it has to do with how the American political system works. It costs a lot (go look at the xkcd comic - money). So people like that can get the money in and support...

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The US government is an Israeli shill government.

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If it does effect me, it isn't doing so in a way that I can disern so as I am happy in life then all I can say is.....
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It really is disturbing that so many people on this (supposedly educated) forum have your slave mentality. You care about nothing beyond your tiny little life and what is on tv. Maybe some people were destined to be ruled with an iron fist at the whims of the elite.

It is even more astonishing that you have the audacity to write 'lest we forget' in your signature when you care nothing about the policies of political money has on fighting wars of the past and present. How many British soldiers died in Iraq fighting another war to wipe out Israel's enemies? Lest we forget?
 
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The US government is an Israeli shill government.

It really is disturbing that so many people on this (supposedly educated) forum have your slave mentality. You care about nothing beyond your tiny little life and what is on tv. Maybe some people were destined to be ruled with an iron fist at the whims of the elite.

It is even more astonishing that you have the audacity to write 'lest we forget' in your signature when you care nothing about the policies of political money has on fighting wars of the past and present. How many British soldiers died in Iraq fighting another war to wipe out Israel's enemies? Lest we forget?
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This ought to be good...

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[TW]Fox;20644870 said:
Whoa, this is shocking stuff. Who would have thought that people who have held high level positions would be thought of as attractive staff to hire by large multinationals? And I can't beleive that succesful executives decide to change career and make a difference in politics. It's absolutely shocking. We should have governments filled with stay at home Mums, people who have 4 McDonalds Stars and people from Mumsnet.

It's a good job we have people on the internet to bring us the awful truth. Its time we did something about it. I'm off to Millets for a tent.
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I have four McDonalds stars and I could be treating you in four years, so ha. Don't be so quick to judge fast food workers.
 
[TW]Fox;20644870 said:
Whoa, this is shocking stuff. Who would have thought that people who have held high level positions would be thought of as attractive staff to hire by large multinationals? And I can't beleive that succesful executives decide to change career and make a difference in politics.
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And of course there would be absolutely no conflict of interests in this at all.

Nate
 
Guile said:
It really is disturbing that so many people on this (supposedly educated) forum have your slave mentality. You care about nothing beyond your tiny little life and what is on tv. Maybe some people were destined to be ruled with an iron fist at the whims of the elite.
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I think people do care. Look at the wall street protests, aren't they essentially arguing for financial reform?
 
Nate--IRL-- said:
And of course there would be absolutely no conflict of interests in this at all.

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Taken to its logical conclusion that line of argument would eventually dictate that nobody should hold public office if they have ever had a job or run a business, and nobody should have a job or run a business once they leave public office.

Why WOULDNT you want Treasury Secretary with acres of finance experience?! You'd be bonkers NOT to hire a financial professional for such a post! Are people seriously saying thats what they'd want?

The people with the intelligence, experience and ability to do these high end jobs are not normally found on the checkout in Wal-Mart. It's frankly obvious why there is a link between high level executives and high level staffers in places like the White House.
 
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[TW]Fox;20646463 said:
Taken to its logical conclusion that line of argument would eventually dictate that nobody should hold public office if they have ever had a job or run a business, and nobody should have a job or run a business once they leave public office.

Why WOULDNT you want Treasury Secretary with acres of finance experience?! You'd be bonkers NOT to hire a financial professional for such a post! Are people seriously saying thats what they'd want?

The people with the intelligence, experience and ability to do these high end jobs are not normally found on the checkout in Wal-Mart. It's frankly obvious why there is a link between high level executives and high level staffers in places like the White House.
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I think it's mainly because these people maintain their positions across the different institutions. In other words, they appear to be able to represent the views of the government, the big corporations AND academic institutions in a relatively short time span. It's all very convenient for them. Whether they actively do it at the same time e.g. work in government at the same time as being a CEO, I'm not sure about (someone enlighten me), but they do seem to move back and forth at least.

As an example, if a revered academic became a politician due to his expertise, fine. However if he were to then be a CEO for a couple of years, then back to politician, then back to an academic when a "key" bit of expertise was needed to influence the government on something that was undoubtedly going to affect the company he was CEO for ... it all looks dodgy.

Too many fingers in too many pies.

Edit: I might add I've formed this opinion from watching "Inside job" (a documentary film), which had a massive agenda and so it was pretty biased. There was a funny interview where one of these guys in government (also a CEO of a massive investment bank and Professor at Harvard) got very touchy when he was questioned about this exact thing. I'll try and find it on youtube or something.
 
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If it wasn't the case you'd all be crying about that as well.

'How can this guy run the treasury with no experience of finance, waaaa'

We all (rightfully) moaned enough about Gordon Brown being a Chancellor with no real economics background for example.
 
[TW]Fox;20646674 said:
If it wasn't the case you'd all be crying about that as well.

'How can this guy run the treasury with no experience of finance, waaaa'

We all (rightfully) moaned enough about Gordon Brown being a Chancellor with no real economics background for example.
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Yeah, you just played into the classic ' we're too dumb to govern ourselves ' line.

These people are either intentionally selling off British interests(Brown selling the last of our Gold reserves) or being put in positions of power because they're idiots. Nothing to do whether he worked at a bank or not.

A real patriot would not be working in the interest of the international bankers. However, these patriots don't seem to get much media attention or get selected to lead any of the 3 main political parties. I guess it helps to have childhood friends like the Rothschilds hey Mr Cameron?
 
Why worry? It's not as if these high level bankers/executives with all their experience and expert knowledege have completey *****ed up the world economy and we're staring down the barrel of a financial abyss is it?

Oh wait ...
 
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Why worry? It's not as if these high level bankers/executives with all their experience and expert knowledege have completey *****ed up the world economy and we're staring down the barrel of a financial abyss is it?

Oh wait ...
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Go on, suggest socialism as an alternative. I dare you.
 
Sundance said:
Edit: I might add I've formed this opinion from watching "Inside job" (a documentary film), which had a massive agenda and so it was pretty biased. There was a funny interview where one of these guys in government (also a CEO of a massive investment bank and Professor at Harvard) got very touchy when he was questioned about this exact thing. I'll try and find it on youtube or something.
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I saw Inside Job too, and it was sickening. It shows pure cronyism and some of the more human flaws in the*financial system. However, simply 'the best with the most financial experience scoring the top financial jobs' does not automatically equal cronyism.
 
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