[gavanwoolery]

I have ranted for a long time about the corruption at Goldman Sachs, mostly to deaf ears. :) This is the tip of the iceberg, as far as I am concerned. My bigger concern is how involved GS is with our government.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/business/19gold.html?pagew...

As it turns out, the human race is extremely intelligent and wherever there is an opportunity to make money (corrupt or not), people are probably doing it. I would call it a conspiracy theory, if it were not occurring in plain site. Exactly which Americans approved of the multibillion dollar bailout, show of hands?

[jpdoctor]

> My bigger concern is how involved GS is with our government.

I agree: This deserves a great deal more attention.

Hell, just the Henry Paulson tax giveaway should have caused civil unrest.

[TheFuture]

"tax" giveaway? It's all borrowed money anyway, not actual tax revenue. Drop in the bucket compared with the rest of the federal budget, and most of it was paid back.

[jpdoctor]

> It's all borrowed money anyway, not actual tax revenue.

Huh? How is forgiven taxes not tax revenue?

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/paulson-files-to-sell-500-m...

If Hank paid the taxes anyway, I can't imagine that scumbag would have done so without major PR and fanfare.

[gavanwoolery]

Sigh. Learn reddiquette people - downvoting is for irrelevant comments - not necessarily comments that you just disagree with.

http://www.reddit.com/help/reddiquette

If you disagree with me, that is cool - just leave a comment telling me why. If you think my comment is irrelevant for some reason, also let me know why.

Edit: More appropriately -- http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[panacea]

Didn't mod you, but I think you're looking for this: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[gavanwoolery]

Thanks, that is more relevant :)