A Nifty Graph to Accompany Your Hopeless Job Search

Posted on October 10, 2011 at 7:29 am by Bob Cesca

While we continue to pick up the pieces of our post-recessionary lives, it might make us feel better to see how the financial sector — the dickbags who forced us all to the brink of disaster — are doing. We can only assume they’re still hurting. Oh, glorious pain.

Or not.

As it turns out, financial sector profits are back to pre-recessionary levels.

And still no prosecutions, and most of the fired CEOs failed up when they should have been exiled.

Pass this along to yours friends in the #OWS trenches.

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  • http://twitter.com/SugaRazor Razor

    That Barack Obama, such a socialist.

  • Scopedog

    “And still no prosecutions, and most of the fired CEOs failed up when they should have been exiled.”

    Very true, Bob. Unfortunately….well, while what some of these POSs did was wrong and immoral….a lot of it was, sadly, legal.

    Sure, I would want to see more perpwalks–but it’s going to take time to gather charges and get trials started.

    Unless, of course, we prefer kangaroo courts….

    • mrbrink

      “Unfortunately….well, while what some of these POSs did was wrong and immoral….a lot of it was, sadly, legal.”

      Excellent point to remember. Gramm-Leach-Bliley and The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 set these assholes free to do whatever they needed to do to be masters of the financial universe and they used that freedom and trust to destroy the national economy.

      The Obama administration and justice department has levied hundreds of millions in fines and numerous indictments against the financial sector and signed financial regulatory reform addressing some of the most reckless practices– righting many of the wrongs of his predecessors.

      It’s difficult to make arrests for what were legal activities at the time. But it’s easy to blame the president for failing to do it anyway.

      “Arrest them! Rule of law be damned!”

      This is why I really like what’s happening as far as Occupy Wall Street.

      It takes the fight directly to the bastards responsible. Takes it to the “job creators,” or the only place in America where all the money is hiding and artificially depressing the economy.

      Sure, you can show up on the White House lawn demanding satisfaction, but I think it’s more important as free, self-determining people, to tell the “free-market” to back the fuck off our American democracy and for fuck’s sake, give us some decent jobs.

      And Wall Street would certainly rather have mass protests going on at the White House if only because it provides them shelter from responsibility, and forces them to reconcile their inability to provide a stable economy to millions of Americans.

      Poverty is a byproduct of ruthless capitalism, not government.

  • trgahan

    This is great news…according to all those “economists” on the right there is point where these people will get so rich, that they’ll start employing all of us all. You know, like all those other times in human history when the wealthy had such a huge percent of the resources, Egypt, Roman, Russia, and France!

  • holyreality

    Funny how this graph matches Rachel Maddow’s famous bikini graph.

    Aside from that unfortunate observation, this answers teabaggers’ class warfare pleas.

    That every TPer is part of the 99% is the point we MUST bring across the schism, and how the 1% laugh at their petty idealism all the way to their crooked bank will then be evident.

  • goteam123

    Once again we know how low and slimy the repubs are but gee, thank god for Larry Summers, Geithner and now Bill Daley; all those Rubinites sure have been a heap of help, for Wall street. 
    And not a word or a peep on how the Obama administration has been complicit in this stupid  supposed centrism; helped along by hacks like Friedman and cheered on by the likes of Cesca who still can’t get himself to call out O’s malfeasance when it comes to the financial sector. Shameful, disgraceful and dishonest. 

    Here’s a taste from Driftglass:

    “And for the last 2.5 years, President Barack Obama has deployed every tool in his toolkit to forge common ground with these degenerates, up to and including selling out core Democratic principles in one misbegotten attempt after another to sue these traitors for peace.

    This is fact. Clear, unambiguous fact.”

    Thanks for trying, hack. 

  • JMAshby

    But, this is the most anti-business administration evarrr!!!1one