- Robert Rubin: Co-Chairman of Goldman Sachs, later became 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury
- John Snow: 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury, later became Chairman of Cerberus Capital Management
- Henry Paulson: Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, later became 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Timothy Geithner: President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, later became 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Gary Gensler: Co-Head of Finance at Goldman Sachs, later Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Mark Patterson: Goldman Sachs lobbyist, later Treasury Chief of Staff under Henry Paulson
- Arthur Levitt: 25th Chairman of the SEC, later policy advisor to Goldman Sachs

Yeah. None of these bankers ever had ANYTHING to do with the government’s deregulation of Wall Street. Neither did the many, many millions of dollars funnelled to the campaigns of both Democrats and Republicans over the years… Yes, all of them poor, poor scapegoats with their hundreds of millions of dollars. Oh, my heart bleeds for them!

Now the list above may contain lots of names of Goldman employees, but don’t think that I’m singling them out. I could point to people like Robert Kimmitt, Managing Director of Lehman Brothers turned Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under George W. Bush, or his predecessor as Deputy Secretary Samuel Bodman, veteran of two venture capital companies. The entire financial services industry has been cosily in bed with the US government over the years of deregulation, no matter if the president is a Democrat or Republican.

And you’re blaming voters?