Meet Welfare Queen Goldman Sachs Lloyd Blankfein: "We have a social purpose, I'm doing God's work"

"I'm doing God's work": Meet Mr. Goldman Sachs from Times of London reports on corporate welfare queen Lloyd Blankfein, the 55 year old CEO of Goldman Sachs who is once again spinning his rationale for why a company that took billions of taxpayers' bailout dollars and now is rewarding themselves royally as they party on like two years ago - as his predecessors went on to big jobs in government for the Bush and Obama administrations.

Luckily for him and his firm, he’s a damn good salesman. He starts with a little humility. He understands that "people are pissed off, mad, and bent out of shape" at bankers’ actions. Goldman played its part in the meltdown that almost destroyed the global financial system. It, like most other banks, lent too much money, made its first quarterly loss for more than a decade last year and ended up taking bail-out cash from Washington. "I know I could slit my wrists and people would cheer," he says. But then, he slowly begins to argue the case for modern banking. "We’re very important," he says, abandoning self-flagellation. "We help companies to grow by helping them to raise capital. Companies that grow create wealth. This, in turn, allows people to have jobs that create more growth and more wealth. It’s a virtuous cycle." To drive home his point, he makes a remarkably bold claim. "We have a social purpose."

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