A Friend Asks A Question

Source: Decline of the Empire

Hi Dave,

I wondered if you could give me some advice.  It was reported in the NYTimes that Vikram Pandit, CEO of Citigroup, “…would be happy to talk with the protesters any time they wanted to drop by.”

So I’m planning to contact him and suggest a meeting with a few other occupiers, which I will videotape for posterity.  Don’t you think that will be fun!?

Do you have any suggestions about how we might approach this, what sort of questions we should prepare?

I’m no financial expert, although other people at OWS have expertise – but I’m assuming Pandit is as smart as a fox so any help would be appreciated!

thanks,

XXX

Dear XXX –

Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit, whose last name might be pronounced so it rhymes with “bandit”, is so far beyond the pale, so divorced from a healthy mental (psychological) state which would lead him to actually want to work toward an economically just society, that it is entirely useless to have a “dialogue” with him about anything at all.

Of course the “bandit” wants to talk to protesters anytime they want to drop by, he wants to baffle them with bullshit. That’s his goal. Almost all the protesters know and feel economic injustice when they see it, but almost all of them are completely unqualified to talk details with the CEO of Citigroup, which is mostly pointless anyway, since ETHICS don’t exist for the man.

If Vikram is feeling so open about the economic issues, why don’t you ask him to talk to ME about the things he wants to cover, let him talk them over with ME here on DOTE.  He can submit his questions right here on the blog at anytime. Questions like “what do you people really want, anyway?!?” Or “why are you so upset that the Government I own bailed us out?”

You see, XXX, you are in the DOMINATE ethical and moral position, whereas Vikram is a “whore” (no sexism intended) whose wide-open orifices can be penetrated for MONEY at anytime. You are in the SUPERIOR position. You are ON TOP.

So don’t ask me what you might ask HIM. Ask HIM what he might ask ME, or YOU, and more importantly, what he might DO FOR YOU.

very best,

– Dave

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