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Simmering Resentment - You Thought Banks Were Unpopular
Presented with little comment except to note that Members of Congress and Lobbyists rank lowest for honesty and ethics with Nurses topping the list and Bankers just below Journalists as the resentment of where the QE funds flow rises ever so slowly at first...
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This might alter things a bit:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/poll-finds-majority-of-male-voters-woul...
Speaking of unpopular banks, China wants to break the monopoly:
Wen Jiabao: With common purpose, the central government will smash the banking monopoly
They probably should have split 'Wall Street Investment Bankers' out from 'Local and Regional Bankers'. That would probably resolve the oddity of having 'Bankers' getting such a high rating.
double tap
LOL, thought lawyers would be right along car salesmen. After all a few turn into politicians.
But yet, Members of Congress will be reelected at a rate of greater than 90%.
And, people continue to put their money in the big banks. And, advertising practitioners and telemarketers only do what works.
If people voted at the ballot box and with their dollars with this shit in mind, this wouldn't be a problem.
I blame us. Not them.
I'm with you, but don't underestimate the abilities of Agent Diebold when it comes to that 90% 'reelection' rate. Voting is a wonderful thing in principle, rendered completely toothless under our current system.
As the saying goes, if voting worked as a true instrument of change, it would be made illegal.
Ace - I understand your concern, but the 90% reelect rate has been pretty steady - well prior to electronic voting, too. We get what we deserve.
The truth is that it isn't corrupt vote counting or even lack of turn out. If we had 100% turn out and the results we tabulated 100% accurately, I believe the outcomes would only be marginally different. The problem is that people don't care to both to be informed or to consider the information and evidence they do have.
Ballot looks like this:
[] turd sandwich with mayo
[] turd sandwich with mustard
If you hate mustard, your options are limited. And the people who could do a decent job don't want to even BE turd sandwiches, so they don't try to get on the ballot in the first place.
By the time you get to the federal ballot, that may be true. But there is a lot more choice for state and local races, yet even there the reelect rate is staggering.
And at the federal level, even if you thought the choice was turd # 1 or turd # 2, it is still well outside what you'd expect in a normal distribution of voting that the incumbent turd is sent back at > 90%.
Arab Spring needs to come to America.
Remember Hope & Change. That may be the most ironic political slogan of the last 50 years.
"Arab Spring needs to come to America."
Apparently you're a bit naive. Need to look to see who/what was REALLY behind these "movements."
Judge a man by his enemys only. The rest is lies and propaganda only.
human ethics should be measured as a ratio.
Opportunity to exploit conflict of interest(0-100)/Exploitation of said conflict of interest (0-100)
What you'll be surprised to learn is how closely grouped all professions are, and that the differentiators have nothing to do with the chosen profession.
+1. The groupings are arbitrary labels - veils for the underlying source.
And so, many posters here bash each group as if its members were uniformly trustworthy. What's more they bash the ratings for being irreconcilable with their own perception, experience, or view of what each "ought" to be, all the while not looking at it introspectively.
while I understand your point about "bashing groups" and not giving weight to individuals within the group - but perhaps some of us find the professions these people are trained in inherently UN-trustworthy, which means the individuals are participating, and profiting from work that is not worthy of trust.
So is the response to avoid such professions or to infiltrate and try to "right" them? I think the latter is what so many here hope Ron Paul and his ilk would do, no?
infiltrate the corporate pharma drug pushers? that's like infiltrating the military industrial complex, or con-gress even.
there's no "inflitrating" massive corruption designed to destroy - best to inform yourself in how to avoid these behemoths, dodge their control mechanisms - informed peoples are NOT what rulers desire though, compliant "voters" that use the systems provided is preferable.
hoping that Dr. Paul will cure their ills is popular here, but voting is so easy. . . he speaks of many things people should learn, investigate for themselves - but he's a package deal, and there's some baggage included that is past the sell-by date. . .
Romney continued. "And one of the reasons I'm running for president of the United States is I want to help people, I want to lighten those burdens."
Vice "...lighten those burdens,"
he meant, "...lighten their wallets."
One Heart. One Mind, One Body, One Wallet- Mine.
Ya, Mitt Romney wants to help "people"
"Corporations are people, my friend" - Mitt Romney
How are journalists rated so highly?
Just shows the success of the educational programs in this country. "Anyone in a uniform or lab coat is to be trusted without question." That fact that the Banksters, the root of all that is evil in this country, are in the middle further demonstrate this truth. They are the 800lb problem in the room no one ever sees.
My biggest problem with this "poll" is where is the POTUS on this list? How is it that self-righteous, arrogant, bastard is exempt from such a question? He is the dictator that can solve all of humanity's problems, isn't he? How's he doing? I cannot stomach to listen to that prick so I read the articles from those that worship at his feet. I challenge someone to put together a scrapbook of photos of this self-centered monster and just notice the arrogant poses we find of him in the camera. He looks like Che, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Idi Amin, Kin Jon, and the list could go on. I cannot believe I am going to have to endure further exposure to this Welfare-made-king for another 4 yrs. I sure wish Congress could find some backbone and stifle this prick just a little.
Up arrow for the first paragraph.
Down arrow for the second: way too Party Pussy-ish (not that I don't dislike the name you wish not to name, but... I wonder what you were saying with the last POTUS.
Every president of the USA after JFK has been the same brand of joker. Every preisdent after 1990 has been a corporate puppet PURELY enslaving his people.
Bush = Obama = Clinton = garbage
This is old Tyler.
The March numbers are almost exactly the same, but Al Qaeda ranks just above Lawyers.
I find it interesting that funeral directors actually made this list high or low.
Look at that list, it's ridiculous. how can you put nurse on the same list as congressman or lobbyist? There should be two lists; one for those professions generally known to be of good moral and ethical standing, and the other for those known to be highly questionable to begin with. It goes without saying that president will be on the second list, but where?
"generally known to be of good moral and ethical standing"
Known by whom?
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I agree with an above comment regarding separating regional/local bankers from wally-street types. I find it nteresting that you could take every position from banker on down and eliminate it from society, and we would probably function just fine. And then reign in every practioner of the remaining spots and make them do their jobs honestly, and we would have things pretty good around here.
Hey, I can dream, can't I?
Regional/local bankers are STILL peddling the same dope! And chances are they have a more incestious connection with your local community (buying off all the "leaders").
Really, ANYONE who believes that creating money by making loans...
LOLZ @ cops and doctors ranked so high. Particularly cops, state-sanctioned armed revenue collection agents, also serving as costumed enforcers of the oligarchy's will. Honesty and ethics? BWAHAHAHA!
For some light reading regarding our noble 'peace officers':
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/
I call bullshit call bullshit on this lists order.
Police Officers.....5th....?
Too low? .....or too high?
Where are "Neighborhood Watch People"?
I hate Nurses!
Doctors are owned by big pharma. lol...what a clueless fucking society.
Isn't it about time for some of you to take your big-pharma QoL-improving pill cocktails?
They forgot to put Central Bankers as an addition to the Banker's category.
The low ranking of lobbyists and the relative ranking of bankers suggests willful ignorance in the sampled population. To the best of general knowledge, the lobbyist is doing a fabulous job as paid representatives of ............ the bankers.
And the Congressional re-election rate for incumbents is???????
If you look close, somewhere around 6% of the population rate Members of Congress high or very high for honesty and ethics.
So what % of the population has been lobotomized?
look who they vote top of the list, that should answer your question. . .
Just for the hell of it, I watched the Senate questioning of the MFGlobal and Goldman reps a few days ago about that "missing" client money and how they lost $1.6B.
I was amused to discover that even though I was disgusted and generally hostile towards the bankers, the entire affair still left me hating the Senators even MORE.
So the chart above seems about right to me. Congress appears completely hopeless.
Anyone who is an in-patient in a hospital ought to be considered to be in dangerous territory. As much as it is possible, they shouldn't be left alone - adults as well as children. Medical errors happen, not necessarily ought of malice but because of carelessness, poor habits, miskaken identity, similar labels on drugs that have drastically different strengths, and much more. An in-patient usually doesn't have the presence of mind to question everyone who hands them a pill or sticks a needle in their IV line what the drug is and whether it's really for them, but a family member/watchdog does. I know it's a real pain in the ass and it's not even feasible for many but it can make the difference between getting out safely or running a greater risk of being one of the medical error mistakes. By the same token, the watchdog can let the nursing staff or physican know when the patient's condition has deteriorated, something that they may not pick up on for awhile longer.
Seeing nurses and doctors rank so high is worrisome. They've always ranked pretty high, I know, so it's a trend and in relation to the other professions listed I guess it makes sense. We're jaded and disappointed. But with the medical errors and failures mentioned by failure to perform and the CNN article cited by Gully Foyle , it's as important as it ever was for people to understand that while many of these people work really hard and mean well, there are others that leave massive damage in their wake. There is much talk of sociopaths/psychopaths on Zerohedge. When you come across one in healthcare it is chilling because they can cause such direct and immediate harm and they just don't give a shit.
Aren't you just Susie Sunshine.
Shame Khadafi is dead ... It would have been nice to see if even he placed above members of Congress.