Joseph Stiglitz couldn’t believe his ears. Here they were in the White House, with President Bill Clinton asking the chiefs of the US Treasury for guidance on the life and death of America’s economy, when the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers turns to his boss, Secretary Robert Rubin, and says, “What would Goldman think of that?”
Huh?
Then, at another meeting, Summers said it again: What would Goldman think?
Unchecked perpetrator of outright evil.
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I am not usually an advocate of attributing blame or praise on any president because corporations rule us and it is generally a distraction from focusing on their machinations, but I think this shows who is calling the shots. If people claim he now knows more because he is privy to more intelligence, I would say that doesn’t begin to explain the lies, prevarications, and hypocrisies that have defined his presidency. Saying one thing and doing another (or doing nothing at all) is a hallmark of this administration, because – like the administrations that have come before – it is empowered only when it makes decisions to benefit the powerful at the expense of the powerless. Programs that hurt and kill people have been the order of the day from the beginning – from drone attacks to race to the top, from escalating the war in Afghanistan (a campaign promise liberals refused to acknowledge at the time and thereafter) to bailing out the banks and leaving the structures in place that caused the crisis…well the list goes on and on…The evidence is legion, but this little video is telling nonetheless.
As a P.S., anyone schooled in the art of reading body language can see the lies as clear as day.
P.P.S. Don’t get it twisted, I am on the far left, so let’s not think I’m advocating for any Libertarian bullshit. The national security state is making corporations rich and giving them ample reason to keep it all going.
21st Century Theater 