He'll just ruefully look at the floor and wistfully regret that there's not much he can do because "most of what they did was legal".

Matt in his most recent blog post links to a chart that shows just how pervasive Goldman Sachs is at the highest level of our politics.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/the-best-politicians-money-can-buy-20120117

but kept throwing up in my mouth every time I read it.

yet stories like this make it difficult to feel any other way about some of them.

This guy should be going to jail---

are generously applied.

True story.

My husband (I'll call him Dan) grew up in the projects of New York's Lower East Side, not far from Wall Street, where his dad worked as a humble bookkeeper with a wife and 8 kids.

Back in the late 1980s, my husband worked as a computer systems analyst for a New Jersey-based consulting company. I was only able to work part-time due to illness, and we were struggling to raise our 2 kids and pay the mortgage.

Dan was assigned to temporarily work at Goldman-Sachs in the Wall Street financial district. It was a rainy week in June, so he wore his new $89 raincoat. It wasn't easy for us at that time to spend that much money on an article of clothing.

When he got to Goldman-Sachs, he hung his coat up in the cloakroom near the reception desk, and got to work. At the end of the day he went to get his raincoat, but someone had stolen it. Probably some financial whiz who didn't want to get his $300 suit wet.

The second day was just as rainy, but being without a raincoat, he went to work with an umbrella.
You guessed it. Someone stole that too.

On the third day, Dan borrowed my umbrella. He kept it by his assigned desk. But when he went on his break, someone stole that umbrella too.

At the time, we could hardly believe what a den of thieves Goldman-Sachs was.

Now that we've seen the way the company operates, we truly understand that it's a den of thieves who will rip off anyone that crosses their path.

have no conscience.

Sociopathic bankster thought process:

It's raining out.

I don't have a raincoat or an umbrella.

I need a raincoat and an umbrella.

I'll go see if I can find one.

Ah. Good! There's a raincoat and an umbrella.

As soon as nobody's watching, I'll take them.

Got them. Now I won't have to get wet.

I'm hungry. I'll go eat.

Fuck Wall St. Killing the world for cash. How anyone can invest in it and sleep at night is beyond me.

(Don't answer that; it was a rhetorical question)

We all paid for it.