Video of the Day – Three Former U.S. Treasury Secretaries and a Facebook Executive Laugh About Income Inequality

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If there was ever a “let them eat cake” moment in modern American history, this is it.

Earlier this year, at 2015’s Milken Institute Global Conference, Facebook Chief Operating Officer, Sheryl Sandberg, was moderating a panel with three former U.S. Treasury Secretaries. The topic of income inequality was raised, and they all burst out laughing. The biggest uproar came from the man who orchestrated the 2008 banker bailouts, former Goldman Sachs CEO, Hank Paulson, as Sandberg enthusiastically claps her hands like a privileged, primped out Panem aristocrat. To the right of Hank is Clinton puppeteer Robert Rubin, and all the way to the left, Timmy Geithner.

You have to see it, to believe it:

In case you forgot, Sheryl Sandberg, was the woman who started the idiotic campaign last year to ban the word bossy. See: The Chief Operating Officer of Facebook Wants to Ban the Word “Bossy”.

Because it’s always necessary to distract the ignorant public with meaningless campaigns while you rob them blind.

Let’s also revisit Obama’s unbelievably crony choice for Treasury Secretary upon election in 2008, Timothy Geithner.

Matt Stoller Destroys Timothy Geithner in His Epic Review of “Stress Test”

This is what happens when you bail out criminals, as opposed to putting them behind bars.

Have you seen enough yet, suckers?

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In Liberty,
Michael Krieger

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15 thoughts on “Video of the Day – Three Former U.S. Treasury Secretaries and a Facebook Executive Laugh About Income Inequality”

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  2. They can laugh all the way to the bottom of the Abyss. They are paying a very high price for their ill gotten gains, of course they won’t realize how dearly they have paid until the spiritual window has been shuttered and there is no more redemption! HE he he ha ha ha ho ho ho he who laughs last, laughs longest !

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  3. Mike, I have always had great admiration for you and what you are doing, and, I might add, have zero respect for the parties involved. But here, I would advise caution. As I read this exchange, Rubin is pointing out that Paulson engaged in supporting reverse income inequality by bailing out the banking system. He was in fact saying, you recognize income inequality, but bailed out the wrong people.

    Am I wrong?

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    • I didn’t see it that way at all. I saw it as Rubin acknowledging that Paulson grabbed all the money he could in an upward redistribution of wealth, and joked about it like “yeah that’s how we roll” sort of way.

    • Yes, you are WAY wrong.

      I don’t buy this attempt to cover for these creeps, and I don’t admire the attempt. Hank Paulson and Robert Rubin and Timothy Geithner and Carol Sandberg are peas in a pod. They understand eachother perfectly, and their audience:

      Listen to that Beverly Hills audience burst into laughter at the Big Joke. Ho ho ho, millions evicted, millions hungry! Hilarious! And we got all the loot!!! What a hoot!!!!

      This is naked class warfare showing its teeth — its perfect teeth.

  4. Why, that’s the biggest thigh-slapper I’ve heard in decades! What a gasser! Is this some kind of an “in” joke?

    So, lessee now, what besides great wealth, great power, and employment by the “United States” (sic) Treasury do Robert Rubin, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner and Carol Sandberg have in common?

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