SocraticGadfly: #RickPerry should work for #WallStreet, even #GoldmanSachs

June 17, 2011

#RickPerry should work for #WallStreet, even #GoldmanSachs

After all, he's got all the credentials.

First, a 4,500-percent return on an "investment" fund, turning an owner's $1,000 into a $4.5 million return? Who else but Wall Street's wizards can do that? (For their friends, that is.) And, he can talk the Wall Street hypocrisy talk about how government is BAAADDDD. (Except when it's for one's friends.)

Second, like Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein, he has the part about "doing God's work" down pat. And, again, like Lloyd, Rick appears to spell "god" as "government," since Joseph was working for "the man," not "the son of man."

Third, like many a Wall Streeter, he knows how to bamboozle the middle class and keep his riches to himself, even to the point of not giving them to the external representatives of the divinity he claims to worship. Then again, Rick surely spells "god" with a word shorter than "government."

That word?

"Gold."

What else?

Oh, have some fun and crash the poll about Perry on the homepage of this newspaper.
Do you think Gov. Rick Perry should try a run for president of the United States?
Yes, he'd make a great president and could turn this country around.
No, he's more valuable guiding Texas the next three years.
No, Perry has been bad for the state and he'd be worse for the nation.
Need I say more?

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