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43. Bankers, Billionaires Try to Form Movement Against OWS

Wed Dec 21, 2011, 09:27 PM

Dec 2011

Bankers, Billionaires Try to Form Movement Against OWS
—By Asawin Suebsaeng| Wed Dec. 21, 2011 9:47 AM

Whaddaya know? It seems the rich now want to eat the folks who want to eat the rich. Wrap your head around this Bloomberg report:

Jamie Dimon, the highest-paid chief executive officer among the heads of the six biggest U.S. banks, turned a question at an investors' conference in New York this month into an occasion to defend wealth.

"Acting like everyone who's been successful is bad and because you're rich you're bad, I don't understand it," the JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) CEO told an audience member who asked about hostility toward bankers. "Sometimes there's a bad apple, yet we denigrate the whole."

Dimon, 55, whose 2010 compensation was $23 million, joined billionaires including hedge-fund manager John Paulson and Home Depot Inc. (HD) co-founder Bernard Marcus in using speeches, open letters and television appearances to defend themselves and the richest 1 percent of the population targeted by Occupy Wall Street demonstrators.

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Bankers Seek to Debunk ‘Imbecile’ Attack on Top 1% [View all] Huey P. Long Dec 2011 OP

"Job Creators Alliance"??? Lindsay Dec 2011 #1

You bet they're job creators! Joe Bacon Dec 2011 #4

WE should attack them! kenfrequed Dec 2011 #17

"Job Creators" are always so whiny and fearful, aren't they? n/t Bolo Boffin Dec 2011 #30

Bankers produce what, exactly? SixthSense Dec 2011 #2

Bankers produce carla Dec 2011 #34

And what was his tax rate on the 23 million. trumad Dec 2011 #3

It's a pre-emptive strike. DCKit Dec 2011 #6

That's why I laugh when they threaten to leave. Shoe Horn Dec 2011 #8

If they want libertarianism send them to Somalia. Personally I'd put my odds on the pirates, TBF Dec 2011 #12

Somalia is a perfect place for them. I've been saying that for awhile - about the entire calimary Dec 2011 #64

I agree... KansDem Dec 2011 #15

They want the 'civilized', middle class dependant, artistic and safe environment of America... Shoe Horn Dec 2011 #32

I love it! Let them get out if they can't pay their fair share fuckwads. lonestarnot Dec 2011 #35

That is why Dubai DonCoquixote Dec 2011 #49

"Productive job creators" ProfessionalLeftist Dec 2011 #5

Holy crap this makes me mad. Shoe Horn Dec 2011 #7

Good Gawd! HangOnKids Dec 2011 #45

Fuck the bankers and their ill gotten gains think Dec 2011 #9

Bernie Marcus...keep flapping your gums, you obnoxious old fool BeyondGeography Dec 2011 #10

What part of they fucked everything up do they not get? 6000eliot Dec 2011 #11

These monsters needed to fail back in 2008. Dawson Leery Dec 2011 #13

These fuckers should have never been bailed out. Odin2005 Dec 2011 #14

One day, we the 99% will dine on their corpse. nt Javaman Dec 2011 #16

Bernie Marcus can't get off this planet fast enough for my tastes. HughBeaumont Dec 2011 #18

I'd vote for you. Octafish Dec 2011 #21

All I ask is that you help build the Popemobile with 2-inch glass I'll have to travel in. HughBeaumont Dec 2011 #24

I need this on a t-shirt Missy Vixen Dec 2011 #23

That's some quality rant Hugh. It's true the 1% aren't overregulated they're underregulated, as in, Monk06 Dec 2011 #31

I love you! lonestarnot Dec 2011 #36

Blowing up our country with the housing bubble was "destructive" aletier_v Dec 2011 #19

Occupy the 1%'s living rooms. nt onehandle Dec 2011 #20

Oddly Named Group. drm604 Dec 2011 #22

Increase in average household income means nothing, it can easily distort reality. Uncle Joe Dec 2011 #25

the attack is destructive? shanti Dec 2011 #26

K&R SalviaBlue Dec 2011 #27

It's too late. Their false elitist power center is finished, and they know it. Zorra Dec 2011 #28

Be still my heart! Shoe Horn Dec 2011 #33

Typical Wall Street attitude raouldukelives Dec 2011 #29

Typical aristocracy attitude primavera Dec 2011 #37

Banksters are some of the least productive members of society! Quantess Dec 2011 #38

Shuffles papers, squeezes workers, collects huge profits. Shoe Horn Dec 2011 #47

K&R, turn up the heat Zalatix Dec 2011 #39

Yes, if they aren't crying, we aren't doing what needs to be done! -eom Huey P. Long Dec 2011 #40

And this is why we think the bankers are imbeciles. ieoeja Dec 2011 #41

is there a problem with this stat? grasswire Dec 2011 #42

I find that problematic as well. Real wages haven't risen since 1979. HughBeaumont Dec 2011 #46

I'm calling bogus on it. grasswire Dec 2011 #48

Big Ed's *chart* has that percentage at 18, fwiw. Ship of Fools Dec 2011 #56

household income increased 18 percent? grasswire Dec 2011 #59

Hi! He refers to it Ship of Fools Dec 2011 #61

Bankers, Billionaires Try to Form Movement Against OWS Huey P. Long Dec 2011 #43

Dear Jamie Dimon, Huey P. Long Dec 2011 #44

"let’s call it an attack on the very productive" LOL! Actually no, Ruby the Liberal Dec 2011 #50

“incredibly wasteful” because it takes up time and resources - I can figure that out in about 2 min. underpants Dec 2011 #51

Robber Barrons alliance. sarcasmo Dec 2011 #52

Job creators a new spin on trickle down. sarcasmo Dec 2011 #53

What productive people are they attacking? Jack Rabbit Dec 2011 #54

They are losing, name calling children Mosaic Dec 2011 #55

+1 sarcasmo Dec 2011 #62

If they have nothing to hide then they should welcome full disclosure lunatica Dec 2011 #57

"job creators" my ass guitar man Dec 2011 #58

If the greedy, UNPATRIOTIC rich wish to leave, fine. aquart Dec 2011 #60

Tax Until It Hurts--Ronald Reagan nt. HarryPowell Dec 2011 #63