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While I'm no longer one of them, I will add that not only are the bankers "slicker and generous", but we also look damn good in our stuffy blue suits - and don't forget our ability to look a congressional subcommittee in the face and arrogantly lie to them about our business dealings and practices!

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I know what you mean Tracy.

Years ago I use to work for Simpson Paper in Miquon Pa. We made paper that would mostly be used for greeting cards or heavy high-end specialty papers.

The operation at Simpson was unionized and the die hards would walk around with the union handbook in their back pocket!

I remember when they were working on a pump and needed to shut the pump down to change a bulb so the general maintenance guy on duty had to wait till the Pipe-fitter and Electrician both could come in so that the bulb could be changed and the pump turned off and on.

These union guys would stop you from doing what needed to be done to make sure that a union worker did the job that related to their field... No matter how small the task....

Did you just sweep up that trash?! That is the Janitors JOB! Did you just take that box to the person it belongs too? Oh my God! That is the Receivers job! If your caught doing this again the union will take steps and there will be repercussions and consequences! Consequences I say!

They are CLOSED NOW....

The media would ruin 'em...

There are bankers and then there are BANKERS. The bankers consist of the thousands of people working at the local branches. They're the tellers, loan officers, customer service people, in-house maintenance workers, in-house security people, in-house custodians, and branch management.

I even include the middle managers, all of whom support the front ends,

These are hard-working people, plagued with the same problems as the rest of us. I group them in with their counter parts that work in myriad other jobs, trades, and professions throughout this country.

Bankers are responsible to BANKERS: the executive force, including board members, making all of the policy decisions. They're the cadre of Harvard, Yale, Wharton, etc. MBA's, CPA's, and lawyers, MOST of whom, in cohort with thousands of folks who thought they could beat the system by purchasing homes well above their capacity to pay, marched this country into this mess.

Of course, this includes THEIR counter parts on Wall Street and K Street.

I don't know if you were a banker or a BANKER, Raptor.

Straight-faced lying before congressional subcommittees isn't something bankers get a chance to do. On the other hand, the practice is not restricted to BANKERS, either.

I once watched and listened while the late Carl Sagan convinced the late Senator Jacob Javits to release a ship load of 100-dollar bills for a project that had absolutely NO return, other than some "nice-to-know" information.

Far be it from me to accuse Carl Sagan of telling bold-faced lies. He influenced my life--positively--in ways I can't begin to describe. But, the man was a terrific salesman, who spoke in almost perfect paragraphs and who knew, ABSOLUTELY, what to leave out of his pitch.

We all do it. It's part of human nature. It's like using sentence "enhancers" instead of "bad" words.

Sometimes, though, we do it with intensely serious, painful, and long-lasting consequences.

Regards,

Joe Walther

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I don't know. You wouldn't by any chance know where Hoffa's body is, do you?

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Joe Walther

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I was the Banker who made the BANKERS that just straight faced the feds look good. I was the one who was told to whip out my corporate card to pay for the extravagant event that was set up by those BANKERS (and attended by the feds). I was one of the few guys that knew how to assemble expense reports so that they didn't violate any agency (or company) gift policy, or require any additional reporting of "gifts", I was usually in demand around the holidays. But, my actual job was running the Global Commercial Technology teams for Citi in the late 90's.

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So, it WAS you! You knew what was in ALL of the closets, how to get to it without turning on the lights, and the exact locations for all of the bodies.

No wonder you RETIRED at 42! Or... was it part of um... you know, a deal. Maybe YOU know where Hoffa's body is.

Regards,

Joe Walther

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