Photos: Rich Who Behaved Badly in 2008

I don't hate the rich, but the rich sure hate the poor, as demonstrated by the Republicans refusal to vote FOR a stimulus bill FOR the people - but I guess the people don't matter.

Are you kidding me? Prefer to laugh? What luxury, to be smug. An attitude more criminal than the acts themselves. To tolerate callousness in the face of suffering with smugness. WHat have we become?.

A word or a title of being a "Thief" is appropriate only to those who steal and cannot afford a battery of lawyers that can defend them and let them stay away from prison. From where I came from we skinned them alive and pour salt all over their body, in this way they will felt what are the consequences and the magnitude of their wrongdoing

A title of "Thieves" belongs only to an individual who cannot afforn an attorney to keep them out opf prison. Where I cmae from we skinned them alive and pour salt all over their body.

LOCK THEM UP! These people are theives! LOCK THEM UP! These people are theives! LOCK THEM UP!

You F.U.C.K.-ing basters, you won't get away with this mark my words. you time is coming very soon!

You F.U.C.K.-ing basters, you won't get away with this mark my words. you time is coming very soon!

Giant Ponzi scheme according to the SEC. I love that quote. According to the SEC website... money from new investors is used to pay off earlier investors until the whole scheme collapses. Doesn't that sound like Social Security and the economic "bailouts". Who is getting bailed out?? Sounds like the hole is getting deeper. How long before the scheme collapses???

"A giant Ponzi scheme" according to the SEC. I love that quote. The SEC website definition... money from new investors is used to pay off earlier investors until the whole scheme collapses. Doesn't that sound just like Social Security and the economic "bailouts"!!! How long before the whole scheme collapses??

Everyone is so quick to blame "bank greed" and "insurance company junket" for economic downturns when in fact the national disasters of the past few years must certainly have had a negative toll on the economy. The Bush administration was very quick to make trillion$ available to industry bailouts but was slow to bail out disaster victims which means he is insisting disasters be excluded in the calculations for economic downturn. Is it just me, or would you think a homeowner (whose home is under water or engulfed in forest fire flames) feels very compelled to make mortgage payments?

Everyone is so quick to blame "bank greed" and "insurance company junket" for economic downturns when in fact the national disasters of the past few years has had to take a toll on the economy. The Bush administration was very quick to make trillion$ available to industry bailouts but was slow to bailout disaster victims. Is it just me, or would you think a homeowner (whose home is under water or engulfed in forest fire flames) feels very compelled to make a mortgage payment?

Everyone is so quick to blame "bank greed" and "insurance company junket" for economic downturns when in fact the national disasters of the past few years has had to take a toll on the economy. The Bush administration was very quick to make trillion$ available to industry bailouts but was slow to bailout disaster victims. Is it just me, or would you think a homeowner (whose home is under water or engulfed in forest fire flames) feels very compelled to make a mortgage payment?

What's shameful is that the disasters of the past years has be included in the calculations for economic failures...all the blame is going to "banker greed" and "insurance company junkets"...it appears to me that the Bush administration, so quick to give bailouts to industry was a bit slow in giving some bailout assistance to disaster victims and areas...is it just me or does it seem that a person with a mortage on a house under water or in flames in a California forest does not feel quite so obliged to pay that mortgage?

Wall Street. How about the FBI? Over a 1000 agents claimed they worked 16 hour days 7 days a week in Iraq. Despite bonuses of 50 or more percent to go. Timesheet fraud is still a feloney. At least it used to be. There are many ex bureaucrats who have felony convictions on their record for doing the samething.

Accountability. Do they even know what the word means?

If the crooks in Wallstreet do not, and they obviously do not, then it's about high time we demand from our in-the bag politicians to remind them of the meening.

After the S&L crisis of the 80's, the S&L crisis of the early 90"s, the Nasdaq bubble collapse of the late 90's (.com crisis) Enron, etc, etc. We taxpayers were not only asked to bail out crooks time and again, but lost in some cases all of our savingswhile in the process. Politicians again, and again promised to reform the system, put ALL culprits in jail, and stop once and for all the culture of corruption of all these "executives" by enforcing, and POLICING their activities.

As usual, once the cameras were gone, politicians went back to ask for money from the very same people they were supposed to put in jail. And the result was the mother of all crisis The " Mortgage Crisis of 2008" . And as an old re-run B movie, what do we have ? Promises from politicians to "fix the corrupt system", calls for accountability from the ususal fat cats, hearings are made, CEO's are paraded, some high flyer goes to jail to act as the sacrificial lamb of the THOUSANDS that deserve to serve time, and is back to business as usual.

Or is it? I for one do not believe it. Investors left and right are simply living the Markets in disgust never to come back. Just as the Nasdaq of the late 90's hit 5,000 only to collapse to less than half after the bubble burst and Joe investor walked out for good (we stand at 1,700 today give or take), so it will be with the DOW, and the S&P this time around.

Or tell me what idiot will want to sink his/her hard earned money in the sest pool that Wall street really is? The so called "system" that has gone on, is going on, and will go on as a toxic mix of lack of transparency, insider trading, day traders short sealing your stock for no reason other than their greed to make a fast buck, lame promises of "change the system" that allways present politicians as misteriously powerless to do anything, etc. etc.

The system had it's chance to regain it's credibility and unfortunately for the fat cats that run it the last train has left the station . Today if any politician, or crook still believes that any one at all is impresed by calls of again "reform the system" , or promises to "get thee crooks behind bars" they are simply delusional. The crisis that is hitting us today has been long in the making. Is a crisis that could have been avoided if past calls for action would have translated into action, not hot air.

Today dear crooks the piper want's to be paid, no excuses accepted. In the future you guys in the so called "Markets" and big shot bankers will simply have to adjust just like the Nasdaq people did a long time ago to a new world. A world of sharks eating sharks ... Have fun !!

Stereotyping Jews as greedy Capitalists is ridiculous. Whatever people's reasons for posting obscene anti-semitic messages, be it jealousy, anger or ignorance, it remains an extremely stupid thing to say and just demonstrates a narrow-minded lack of education and tolerance. The people mentioned in the list are paying for their mistakes; they made their mistakes because of greed and only an idiot would attribute this to their religion.