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Lloyd Blankfein is the Face of Class Warfare (Original Post)
Donkees
Apr 2016
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Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)1. But, but, but, they pay for our re-elections!
think
(11,641 posts)2. Thanks for posting. I forgot that Lloyd advocates cutting Social Security
Sen. Bernie Sanders was reacting to Loyd Blankfein's comments about how we must cut our safety nets because we can't afford them in his words. This is coming from another wealthy CEO-type that has racked in hundreds of millions of dollars of his own while accepting big bailouts from the federal government.
Here's what he said to CBS:
An interview with Lloyd Blankfein is as rare as a look inside the Goldman Sachs money machine. He showed us one of seven trading floors at his Manhattan headquarters. Goldman is one of America's most successful investment banks. It had net earnings of $4.4 billion dollars last year. When we asked Blankfein how to reduce the federal budget deficit, he went straight for the subject politicians don't want to talk about.
BLANKFEIN: You're going to have to undoubtedly do something to lower people's expectations -- the entitlements and what people think that they're going to get, because it's not going to -- they're not going to get it.
PELLEY: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid?
BLANKFEIN: You can look at history of these things, and Social Security wasn't devised to be a system that supported you for a 30-year retirement after a 25-year career. ... So there will be things that, you know, the retirement age has to be changed, maybe some of the benefits have to be affected, maybe some of the inflation adjustments have to be revised. But in general, entitlements have to be slowed down and contained...
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/bernie-sanders-lloyd-blankfein-arroganc
They_Live
(3,239 posts)3. Blankfein
was also asked about one man/one vote. He scoffed and said it should be one dollar/one vote.
Yep. We need to be slowed down and contained.
Herman4747
(1,825 posts)4. Actually there are not one but TWO faces...
appalachiablue
(41,168 posts)5. Blankfein actually said he's 'doing God's work'.