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星期四， 2009年2月12日

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由 傑瑞白色?

首席執行官從八家最大的銀行在美國，共同接受了$125十億在財政援救金錢，出現在議院金融服務委員會星期二面前。 聽力是民主黨和共和黨政客的完全疲勞的示範在美國的財政精華之前。

出現在國會委員會面前是Lloyd Blankfein (Goldman Sachs); 詹姆斯Dimon (J P Morgan追逐); 羅伯特凱利(銀行紐約梅隆);

肯・劉易斯(美國的銀行); 羅納德Logue (State Street Corporation); 約翰Mack (摩根Stanley); Vikram Pandit (Citigroup)和約翰Stumpf (Wells Fargo)。 共同，而他們的機關沉澱了最壞的財政熔毀從大蕭條，他們在單獨報償在過去幾年接受了數百成千上萬。

離進行嚴肅的很遠的地方對這些活動進行調查，議員對待了董事以順從。 他們注重沒有反控，但國會會工作以銀行家恢復對財政系統的信心。 證人未被投入在誓言之下也未被迫顯露任何損壞或攻擊證據。 反而，他們禮貌地至於大部分被要求，如果他們學到了他們的教訓并且準備行動更加慎密地。

這敬禮對財政貴族政府在委員會主席巴爾尼直率開場白被總結了。 馬薩諸塞民主黨，他自己成千上萬的接收者在競選資金從華爾街，被承認有普遍公開憤怒反對銀行和被承認人民的決大多數想要「破爛物」出席財政系統并且建立新的。 然而， 「時間和努力」提出了這樣一個提案「不切實際」，免費郵寄堅持。

為了得到再運作，他說， 「我們的財政系統必須在之內工作？現有的機關。』」他講清楚沒有在被撕碎的財政機關的操作或主導的人員的上實質的變化，更不用說所有挑戰對那些的財富和特權負責任對最壞的危機在70年。

直率然後擊中了在政治「困境」那他說面對的政府。 By funneling more public money into the banking system, he said, the same banking executives responsible for the crisis would be seen as the beneficiaries. This would only generate more public opposition, not only to Wall Street but to the government itself.

Indeed, the insistence of the financial elite in looting the public treasury, even if it means the bankruptcy of the country, has put the government in an extremely difficult position. However, given the complete subservience of the government to the financial aristocracy, and its unquestionable defense of the capitalist system, the politicians were reduced to begging the bankers to clean up their acts and do the public relations work necessary to get through the next installment of public money.

“I urge you going forward to be ungrudgingly cooperative,” Frank pleaded. “There has to be a sense of the American people that you understand their anger…and that you’re willing to make some sacrifices to get this working.”

What followed was political theater in which the executives explained that they weren’t really withholding credit but had issued billions in new loans to consumers, students and small businesses. They made these claims even as report after report has documented the virtual drying up of credit. The banks have used public assets to pay out dividends to wealthy bondholders and finance multi-billion dollar mergers that have resulted in the destruction of thousands of jobs.

The executives issued obligatory apologies for past “mistakes” and “errors,” pledged greater “accountability” and “transparency” and even said they would institute a three-week moratorium on foreclosures until the Treasury Department’s new bailout kicked in. Announcing that he would work without bonuses, John Mack, the CEO of Morgan Stanley, declared, “I know that American people are outraged about compensation packages,” although he did not offer to give back any of the $56 million he pocketed over the last five years.

A few Democrats on the finance committee joined the act, railing against excess bonuses, taxpayer-funded travel junkets, private jets and the millions of dollars in fees charged by the banks to process their own bailout money. The posturing was aimed at deflecting criticism from the Democrats who, like the Republicans, are widely perceived as shills for the Wall Street banks. As one Democratic congressman complained to the bankers, “your industry and ours are suffering from a credibility gap with the American people.”

In the course of the hearing it was revealed that Merrill Lynch, with the complicity of its new owner, Bank of America, had used accounting tricks to issue $3.6 billion in executive bonuses even as the bank was receiving taxpayer money. Bank of America’s executive quickly dodged any responsibility and the matter was dropped.

Another Democratic congressman complained that the American people had been “screwed out of $78 billion,” citing a report issued last Friday by the congressional panel set up to oversee the first $700 billion bailout. The report revealed that Bush administration officials overpaid for banks’ “troubled assets.” The congressman lamely asked, “Will you recommend to your boards that additional shares be given to the government?” The bankers met the question with silence.

Constantly in the background of the hearing was a fear that the banks and government were inciting a potential explosion as millions of working people were losing their jobs and homes, taking pay cuts and facing the prospect of destitution, while the financial elite on Wall Street is looting the US Treasury.

Several congressmen read letters from their constituents. One expressed what millions think of the banking executives: “Put them all in jail, which is where I would be if I robbed a financial institution.”

Despite their vocal contrition, the Wall Street executives were intransigent on their demands for more bailout money. On the most important issue?the sale of the trillions of dollars in virtually worthless mortgage-backed assets held by these insituttions?the banking executives made it absolutely clear they would not sell them at the current market prices and were waiting for the Obama administration’s new bailout to make any sale far more lucrative.

Abandoning their supposed commitment to the “free market,” the executives insisted the value of their assets should be pegged, not at the market value, but at some supposedly “fair value” that was far above their present price. In an attempt to justify this position, Citigroup’s Vikram Pandit declared, “We have a duty to our shareholders; if [the assets] are marked so far below the lifetime value we can’t do it.” However, if you get the funding flowing, he said, “then you will get a real bid.”

Wall Street reacted with disappointment to US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s unveiling of the Obama administration’s new bailout proposals on Tuesday. Behind this reaction was disquiet that the proposals?though entirely geared to the interests of Wall Street?did not include a more explicit plan for the purchasing of these “toxic” assets. The details of this new transfer of wealth to the Wall Street banks are currently being worked out behind the scenes.

America’s financial elite is holding the entire country for ransom in order to extract every penny from the national treasury. The only way to solve the crisis in a rational and socially beneficial manner is to break the grip of the financial aristocracy by transforming the banks into public utilities under the democratic control of working people.

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