{"id":185063,"date":"2011-10-21T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/10\/21\/god-bless-gawker\/"},"modified":"2011-10-21T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T01:37:00","slug":"god-bless-gawker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/10\/21\/god-bless-gawker\/","title":{"rendered":"God Bless Gawker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Call Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein on His Cell Phone and Cheer Him Up<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

It’s been a rough day for Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. His company reported a humiliating $428 million quarterly loss this morning<\/a>, just the second in Goldman’s 12-year history as a public company. We figured he might like a sympathy call from the Occupy Wall Street folks, who know how to get by with less. Here’s his cell phone number. <\/p>\n

Last week’s effort to put Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit in touch with the Wall Street protesters<\/a> worked so well we thought we’d expand the program.<\/p>\n

Here are some pick-me-up messages you might want to deliver to Blankfein: “I know you just lost half a billion dollars, but look on the bright side\u2014you’ve set aside $10 billion in bonuses to pay out to your 34,200 employees.” Or, “Hey, just do what I do when I run out of money\u2014head over to the Fed’s discount window<\/a> and borrow more at no interest.” Or, “Just think how much worse the loss would be if you hadn’t had the foresight to snag that $13 billion taxpayer-financed pass-through bailout via AIG<\/a>.” Or, “We’ve all got to eat a shitty deal<\/a> once in a while.”<\/p>\n

…………<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Heh.
H\/t MP at the Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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