In the eyes of many, the word bankers rhymes with another English euphemism, which is simply impossible to use, in a clean living newspaper like the GDN!
Oh not all of the noble profession, of course, but in recent weeks, these tuggers of our heartstrings, are now crying poor, and I don’t mean as in Standard and Poors, although the standard that they have set, make genuinely poor people, shake their heads and wring their hands.
And if the truth be known, wring a few necks too.
Tales of contempt and avarice, beyond belief, running, in some instances, into hundreds of millions.
No remorse, only howls because they have been caught out, fingered as corrupt.
Now investors and the government, want their money back.
And unsurprisingly, these wretched souls, claim that they don’t have the money.
They claim they will be condemned to a life of penury and won’t have the means to feed their families.
They will have to surrender their luxury motor vehicles, the Mercedes, Beamers and the 4WD’s that pull the float carrying the horses.
A boat perhaps, and what about those shopping trips to Harrods or Galeries Lafayette, to say nothing of having to ask the family to travel, “cattle class.”
Doesn’t your ear bleed.
And do they think that the “gullible public” will be swayed.
Do they think for a moment, for not even a moment, that the gullible public don’t know that bankers and others are sure to have squirrelled away, discreetly of course, some of the benefits from their corrupt ways into solid investments, overseas, or into a Swiss bank account
Or other “solid” tax havens.
Public sympathy will be akin to that reserved for the oleaginous, like used car, real estate and snake oil salesmen.
Zilch.
What the crooks have done is criminal.
They are lucky, by agreeing to repay the stolen money, that was never theirs, allowing them to lead lifestyles, they could have easily afforded, I am sure, on their generous salaries, will be humiliating enough.
There were people living a lie, based on greed alone.
Sure, it is easy to berate the little guy who skims or uses authority to gain financial favours, to just “look the other way, for a moment or two.”
Small amounts here and there can enhance a lifestyle, oiling the wheels of officialdom, to allow things to happen faster.
It is corrupt, it is wrong.
But when they see “big ups” get away with it, they think, why not me?
Corruption can ruin even the best of societies; it needs to be outed, root and branch.
Like those visa scammers who seize poor workers’ passports, keep them in bonded servitude by not returning them, ensuring the servile workers are arrested by the police, often on spurious claims, while poor workers redeem their passports, which according to the law, they are entitled to do.
Malfeasance, disguises a corruption of process through the imposition of impossible repayments.
Society needs retribution, against those who are corrupt.