Ry Cooder: No Banker Left Behind

The opening track to Ry Cooder's 2011 album, "Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down," available at http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/pull-u...

Inspired by a news headline about the Wall Street bailout, Ry Cooder began work on his album "Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down" with this song, "No Banker Left Behind," an ode to the corrupt few spared from the financial crisis while most were left to fend for themselves. Uncut calls the album "one of his best albums ever ... an impassioned portrait of 21st century America and its injustices" in which Cooder is "remade as a modern-day Woody Guthrie, fearless and funny, for like Guthrie he nails his targets with droll humour while empathising with society's underdogs." The BBC calls it "essential listening."

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[DJBUBBLEGOOSE]

M.O OF A BANK:

1. EXTORT PEOPLE RUTHLESSLY FOR FUNDS IN ANY WAY LEGALLY POSSIBLE.

2. PLAY RUSSIAN ROULETTE ALL NIGHT WITH NEWLY EXTORTED FUNDS! (& LOSE).

3. RE-EXTORT TAXPAYING PUBLIC AGAIN, THIS TIME FOR BAILOUT.

4. CONTINUE TO AWARD YOURSELF MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR BONUSES DURING ALL STEPS 1-3 (& BEYOND).

5. RIDE AWAY INTO THE NIGHT LAUGHING AS THE WORLD ECONOMY CRUMBLES.

[wistoncap]

He might not be a communist recruiter but he is still OK by me.

[Patrick Loftus]

ach! back tae the thirties..but sang in a wonderful remembering way. thanks ry. you are always there.

[suzeikew]

can't vote! wtf, why can't i vote? has youtube joined the ranks of those not left behind?

[Graham Warwick]

Right on the button

[scheistundzebreath]

Robbers, thieves, brigands.

[Dennis Gilbride]

On Wall Street, It’s Good to Be a Director

BY WILLIAM ALDEN

There is one job on Wall Street for which pay has continued to rise since the financial crisis: board member. Compensation for directors at the nation’s biggest banks has ticked up even as the banks themselves have reined in salaries and bonuses, DealBook’s Susanne Craig reports.

[Whatupwidat]

....no it doesn't.

Go read the manifesto.

[tanisb]

Except that it vilifies the Middle Class (bourgoiesie in Marx's terms)...you can't have communist without destroying the middle class...which is inherently wrong.

[tanisb]

Democrats love attacking the GOP for practicing “trickle-down economics,” but their latest congressional budget makes Republicans look like pikers. The spending priorities and “investments” Senate Democrats propose to help the middle class mostly involve Corporate welfare and handing money to big corporations.

[tanisb]

Big-spender Hoover is very similar to big-spender Obama...we're living it now...RECORD number of people on food stamps and welfare...that's Obamaville mentality=more people dependent on government. Please...

[tanisb]

Explain how so many of the the supposedly starving people on welfare you cite are 400lbs and have cars, air conditioning, iphones, $300 sneakers, and lots of bling...explain how there is multi-generational welfare...three, four generations...through periods where there was close to zero unemployment the needle didn't move...explain why?