When I say "Banker," what comes to mind?

[MrScorpio]

[B Calm]

1. Crook

[hobbit709]

3. Lying, cheating, psychopathic crook to be exact.

[B2G]

2. Define 'banker'

[MrScorpio]

4. The definition is completely up to you nt

[JaneyVee]

5. This:

[patricia92243]

6. Helpful, nice guy. This is because I thought of my local person. Crooked, dangerous when I think

of the big guys that have helped ruin our economy.

[Brigid]

7. Dangerous, greedy, arrogant, lying psychos.

Plus a few others I won't say here.

[KoKo]

8. Mafia and "Too Big to Fail...To Big To Jail"--Photos from "Rolling Stone"

The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia
How America's biggest banks took part in a nationwide bid-rigging conspiracy - until they were caught on tape

Matt Taibbi-Rolling Stone

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-scam-wall-street-learned-from-the-mafia-20120620





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Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail
The bank has defrauded everyone from investors and insurers to homeowners and the unemployed. So why does the government keep bailing it out?

Matt Taibbi/Rolling Stone

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-too-crooked-to-fail-20120314

[Hotler]

9. Shit stain n/t

[Duer 157099]

10. this guy

[CFLDem]

11. Wolf of Wallstreet

Not a bad gig if you're the wolf.

[stevenleser]

12. Interesting the difference of opinions. Might this have to do with differences in regulation?

Methinks so.

[Shandris]

13. Wow, that's fascinating.

I have trouble even -imagining- someone thinking a banker is a trustworthy person. When I was younger, I knew one individual bank worker who was very kind to me, but that was because he was a friend of my father's. After I left my small town though, I can't think of a single thing good that has ever happened to me from a bank. I can name a ton of bad things, but never a good thing.

I wonder how they're so different?

[polichick]

14. In the U.S. they are gov't sanctioned and subsidized criminals.

[ms.smiler]

15. Fraud – mortgage fraud, servicing fraud, fraud by omission, securities fraud, largest Ponzi scheme

in history, investment fraud, insurance fraud, foreclosure fraud, auction fraud, fraud upon the court, despoiled land records, Breach of Contract, forgery, perjury, Slander of Title, Breach of Warranty of Authority, Unfair Business Practices, Conspiracy, Violations of the Commercial Code, Slander of Credit, money laundering for terrorists and drug cartels, RICO, LIBOR Rigging, theft and transfer of our wealth, destruction of our manufacturing capability, the root cause of most everything that ails this country, and the most unproductive use of capital I can name.


Aren’t you glad you asked?

[Bonx]

16. Judge Alvin 'J.P' Valkenheiser -nt

[NuclearDem]

17. "Cockroaches, greedy little pricks."

Yep, pretty much.

[sibelian]

18. The collective noun.

... which is a wunch.

A wunch of bankers.

[Rex]

19. Bankster...that will be what I call them from now on.

Organized Banksters.

[One_Life_To_Give]

20. Miss Jane Hathaway

Ok so I am not a spring chicken.

[LeftishBrit]

21. Ogden Nash said it all in the 1930s

MA, WHAT'S A BANKER? OR, HUSH, MY CHILD.

The North wind doth blow
And we shall have snow,
And what will the banker do then, poor thing?
Will he go to the barn
To keep himself warm,
And hide himself under his wing?
Is he on the spot, poor thing, poor thing?
Probably not, poor thing.

For when he is good,
He is not very good,
And when he is bad he is horrider,
And the chances are fair
He is taking the air
Beside a cabana in Florida,
But the wailing investor, mean thing, mean thing,
Disturbs his siesta, poor thing.

He will plunge in the pool
But he makes it a rule
To plunge with his kith and his kin,
And whisper about
That it's time to get out
When the widows and orphans get in.
He only got out, poor thing, poor thing,
Yet they call him a tout, poor thing.

His heart simply melts
For everyone else;
By love and compassion he's ridden;
The pay of his clerks
To reduce, how it irks!
But he couldn't go South if he didden.
I'm glad there's a drink within reach, poor thing,
As he weeps on the beach, poor thing.

May he someday find peace
In a temple in Greece,
Where the Government harbours no rancour.
May Athens and Sparta
Play host to the martyr,
And purchase a bond from the banker.
With the banker in Greece, poor thing, poor thing,
We can cling to our fleece, Hot Cha

[Initech]

22. Greedy!!!!