Jeez, we got them bankers all wrong! Why these folks ought to be sainted, every last one of them!

Don’t believe me? I don’t either, but if you can’t trust the word of the bankers themselves, who can you trust, really?

America’s bankers may not agree on much. But on one issue, they are entirely united. They refuse to become humble whipping boys, taking the blame from an angry nation for the global financial crisis.

More than 1,500 senior executives from banks across the nation congregated in Chicago this week for what was intended to be a convivial get-together to reflect on the most tumultuous period for finance since the Great Depression.

For its annual convention at the city’s Sheraton hotel, the American Bankers’ Association hosted a cruise down the Chicago river, an optional cookery lesson, a barnstorming speech by the former Republican speaker Newt Gingrich and a series of round-table sessions on “strategic solutions”.

“Bankers care. This is not just a job for us, it’s a calling,” the ABA’s chairman, Arthur Connelly, told the assembled financiers, under a stage set made of scaffolding to illustrate a “rebuilding” theme. “We want to make life better in our communities. In so many ways, it’s about putting service above self.”

Now I hope every last one of you whiners understand that these kind souls deserve every dime of their bonuses, and more! Newt Gingrich wouldn’t be there hobnobbing with them if they were a group of sociopathic criminals who destroyed our economy. RIGHT?!?

Tags: american bankers association, bankers, financial crisis, lies

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