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Goldman Sachs Bankers Ready to Open Fire on Mob

120109bankrun.jpg Senior bankers at Goldman Sachs are arming themselves with handguns to fend off any forthcoming populist uprising against the bank. A friend of one of the bankers tells a Bloomberg News columnist, "I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit," swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker. This unidentified banker says he's not the only one stocking up on guns, and the NYPD confirms that some of the Goldman Sachs bankers do have pistol permits. Well, this ought to fix their public image problem!

Goldman Sachs has become the #1 symbol for how the financial industry has fleeced the American taxpayer, particularly after a widely read Rolling Stone article looked back at how this group of influential "gangsters" have played a hand in the economy's boom and bust cycle over the past century. At one point, author Matt Taibbi famously described the firm as a "vampire squid sucking the face of humanity." And now that squid is ready suck and shoot.

But where is this torch-toting mob the bankers so palpably dread? Most down-on-their-luck proles amassing at angry rallies have been directing their inchoate rage at communist Obama. On the left, the Working Families Party bussed some protesters out to the homes of AIG executives, but taxpayer contempt for Goldman Sachs—which made $27 billion from trading in the first nine months of this year—hasn't even come close to riot level.

Thing is, these bankers are sick of being made into scapegoats for the recession, and it could very well be that their growing arsenal is motivated as much by fear as a desire to unload on the ungrateful rabble. One imagines that somewhere in Greenwich, old-timely Gatling guns are being rolled up out of the basement. It's go time! You gonna take that, plebes?

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  • williambanzai7

    PENCIL NECK BANKER GEEK

    (Pencil Neck Geeks, Freddie Blassy)

    WilliamBanzai7



    Back when I was a kid, life was going swell.

    Till something happened, blew every thing to hell.

    That night my daddy stumbled in, all pale and weak,

    Said "A woman up the block just gave birth to a banker geek."



    Mom said, "Sell it to Greenspan's circus, what the heck."

    Dad said, "Nope, this one's a pencil neck.

    And if there's one thing lower than a quantitative freak,

    It's a grit eatin', scum suckin', pencil neck banker geek."



    You see if you take a pencil that won't hold lead,

    Looks like a pipe cleaner attached to a head,

    Add a buggy whip body with a brain that leaks,

    You got yourself a grit eatin', pencil neck banker geek.



    (Chorus)

    Pencil neck geek, quantitative freak,

    Scum suckin', swindler with a lousy physique.

    He's a one man, no gut, bubble bloating streak.

    Nothin' but a pencil neck banker geek.



    Soon the banker geeks were poppin' bubbles all over downtown.

    You couldn't hardly sneeze without knockin' one down.

    After a nice juicy steak, if you need a toothpick,

    Just reach for a banker geek, they'll do the trick.



    One day we cut one up for fish bait.

    Learned our lesson just a little bit late.

    Soon as the geek hit the Hudson drink, the water turned subprime red.

    Next day, sure enough, all the investor fish were dead.



    Chorus



    Most any night you know where I can be found.

    Yeah, stomping some banker geek's head into the NYC ground.

    So keep the faith 'cause in SPITZER you can trust,

    I won't give up 'til the last banker geek bites the dust.



    Chorus



    They say, "these geeks come a dime a dozen."

    I'm lookin' for a guy named Geithner who's supplin' the dimes.

    It's gonna be real hard times for all of these

    Grit eatin',

    Scum suckin',

    Obama lickin',

    Drop kickin',

    Gut grindin',

    2 Big 2 failin',

    Nail bitin',

    Glue sniffin',

    Scab pickin',

    Butt scratchin',

    Bonus snatchin',

    Sleezy,

    Smelly,

    Pepper bellied,

    Dirty, lousy, rotten, stinkin', pinstriped bailout suckin freaks.

    Nothing but a pencil neck banker geek.



    Pencil neck geek.

    Pencil neck geek.

    Pencil neck geek.

  • wingedearth

    Where's the anger at Obama (and McCain) who championed the bailouts to Wall Street, in the Senate?

  • JenChungsBaby

    Hope they have better aim than Dick Cheney.

  • NannyState

    This would be the first time a banker was capable of shooting anything.

  • JacqueMehoff

    but again what does the mayor say about this?

    he butts his nose into other states gun laws.

    I've never heard him say anything about legal gun ownership.

  • twelveicat

    In other words:



    People who can afford to and have the good sense to obtain a gun and owners permit are doing so. Some of the ones that are doing so work at a bank.



    Why is this news? Ok. Fine, I'll give it "news." But why is it some sort of thing to get upset about?



    HOW DARE THEY FOLLOW THE LAW? DAMN them.

  • jtp2106
  • felixthecat2
  • sidenote

    Just wait, soon they'll have armed guards circling the building just like Jay Gould's Hotel Taylor during the Erie War back in the 1860s.

  • JenChungsBaby

    What's Al Qaeda's mailing address? I have a postcard with Goldman's return address on it that I'd like to send them. It says "Go fuck yourself, you bacon-sucking cave dwellers."

  • Wza

    Send teens from the Bronx down to Wall Street.

  • hotstepper

    this is a very sad story, bankers just can't catch a break these days. they are doing god's work, don't ya know?

  • Splicer

    Now we wait for the first nervous idiot banker to shoot some innocent person who "spooked" him. Inevitable.

  • starrygordon

    So, do modern lampposts work as well as the old kind?

  • JacqueMehoff

    oh BTW, what does the Mayor say about this?

    will a reporter please ask him this?

  • longacre

    As long as they're doing it legally, there's no reason for the mayor to say anything.

  • felixthecat2

    so why wasn't he silent in regards to out-state CC permits in NYC?

  • longacre

    In regard to Plaxico? Because out of state permits are not valid in NYC.

  • jaycjay

    "In regard to Plaxico? Because out of state permits are not valid in NYC."



    Wouldn't have mattered in his case. His Florida permit had expired.

  • felixthecat2

    A technically. Poor Plaxico was sentenced harshly because of Bloomberg singling him out. Unfair.

  • felixthecat2

    I meant a technicality. We know that he probably forget to renew since he was busy. shame.

  • felixthecat2

    yet out-of-state marriages are valid in NYC but not the CC permits?

  • longacre

    The U.S. Constitution would seem to indicate that such permits should be recognized across state borders, but the courts disagree.

  • felixthecat2

    Bloomberg only makes a stink when it's Plaxico.

  • Mr. Shankly

    Pistols? AR against an angry mob, at a minimum.

  • JacqueMehoff

    well if the writer contacted NYPD they live within the city limits and it's very difficult to get a concealed carry permit. Unless.....you're rich and connected.

    they would also need to re-tailor all those suits to accommodate the carry piece. only your tailor knows.

    from the post, it stated some already do have pistol permits, now if it's concealed carry the nypd didn't say.

    I'm going to assume it's CC. game on.

  • jaycjay

    There's actually nothing in the article to indicate that any of these people have or are trying to get carry permits; in fact it says this: "As for carrying a loaded pistol when you venture outside, dream on. Concealed gun permits are almost impossible for ordinary citizens to obtain in New York or nearby states."



    The article is about people applying for premises licenses.



    For that matter, there's nothing to indicate that the person in the opening anecdote lives in NYC. It says that the banker "applied to the local police."

  • JacqueMehoff

    I'm just relaying what I've read in the gothamist post and it says this.



    This unidentified banker says he's not the only one stocking up on guns, and the NYPD confirms that some of the Goldman Sachs bankers do have pistol permits.



    so at least some of them do have pistol permits. and I've qualified my post in that we don't know if there's premise or carry permits. but it is public record.



    we could nitpick all day if you want.

  • jaycjay

    "I'm just relaying what I've read in the gothamist post and it says this."



    I would think you'd know that you can rarely understand a story if you only read the Gothamist summaries. If you're not going to read the linked articles it's not much worth commenting on an issue; you will be misinformed.

  • John Del Signore

    But if you have a profound emptiness in your life, you'll find some scintilla of fulfillment by nitpicking every Gothamist post to death. Btw jaycjay, happy belated Thanksgiving. I wasn't online much, so I didn't have the chance to thank you for all your thorough comments. Glad you're still keeping off the streets!

  • Dead Himmler

    If I were King I would purge all the mid to high level bankers. Just as Stalin did to the army in the late 30's. I would then address all the bankers who are left and declare "How do you like them apples?"

  • FrankMartin

    As for the outcome of your purge, nothing would change. Let's be real, a broken system and human nature can't be altered with a, short sighted, mass act of violence. No matter how satisfying it might seem at the time.



    For those unfamiliar; Stalin's image is aided when the word "purge" is used instead of the word kill, which is what purge meant to him. As in, "let's purge all these people" meant "let's kill all these people"



  • pastaboy12

    currently sharpening my pitch fork

  • NannyState

    I'll make sandwiches

  • TooTallJeff

    My tar cauldron is bubbling.

  • felixthecat2

    I'm fueling my torch

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