Reply #54: In my opinion after the last two+ years, Obama is a complete dunce where economy is concerned. [View All]

[ieoeja]

I'm not going to accuse him of siding with Wall Street, etc. He said during a presidential debate against McCain that economics was not his strong suit. So he hired a bunch of financial experts. What he and a lot of naive people out there fail to realize is that financial experts are the greediest, sleaziest fuckers in the world.

I know. I worked at a large bank. They honestly believed that greedy people did a better job than non-greedy people. I was *not* a popular person on that job. To give an example:


They had a normal HR algorithim for determining your annual raise. This was then multiplied by the number of people reporting up the branch to you. If a bottom level manager was unethical, s/he would hire excess people to multiply his annual raise. S/he could only get away with that if their boss was also unethical. This would only work if everyone from bottom to top was in on it.

And that is exactly what everyone did. My boss spent a considerable amount of time sabotaging my work, hiding work from me and just plain trying to fire me because I was getting too much work done too fast for our customers. This made it difficult for him to hire more employees. It was three years of fucking hell working for these pieces of shit before I finally gave up.

At one time, noting that I was not all that busy, another manager brought me aboard his team for those down periods. I spent two days experimenting with the new system. Having figured out what their major flaw was, I cranked out three customer fixes on the third day. Everyone was doing one every two or three weeks. On the 4th day, my userid was deleted and I was no longer allowed on that system.

A friend of mine was a bankster. He is currently the president of his local Chamber of Commerce. And he is the only friend I have who I would not trust to do anything where money is concerned. He openly mocks people who are stupid enough to trust him with money. He is a banker. That is how they are.

People who have never been behind the scenes with these folks believe that bankers are the most trustworthy people in the world where money is concerned. They have to be, right? We do trust them with our money after all.

As Obama never worked in that environment, I have come to believe that he is one of the vast majority who believe in the fairy tale of the trustworthy banker.