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Goldman Sachs CEO Blankfein Says Americans Should Work Longer and Receive Fewer Benefits

I watched an excerpt from an interview (can't embed) with Scott Pelli on CBS last week and I've got to tell you:

The absolute cheek, the disconnection from reality, the smarmy, lispy, olefin laden speech pattern, he must have one excellent skill set, because it surely isn't a convincing delivery....Until we raise the tax rate on these blood-sucking squid, we will continue to bleed the common wealth and lard these amoral, treasonous pockets. Unregulated, untaxed capitalism is a pox on the common good. And the corporate controlled MSM as their handmaiden should be held accountable for letting him get away with this drivel without even challenging his assertions. We gave those licenses to the PUBLIC airwaves in trade for ONE HOUR a day of news that would promote the understanding of issues that affect the REPUBLIC!” 

According to Blankfein Solving the long-term solvency problem of Social Security will mean Americans retiring later in life and receiving fewer benefits, according to one Wall Street tycoon who received $16 million in compensation in 2011.

Lloyd Blankfein, the enormously wealthy CEO of Goldman Sachs, recently told CBS News that “the retirement age has to be changed.” He also remarked that “maybe some of the benefits have to be affected; maybe some of the inflation adjustments have to be revised. But in general, entitlements have to be slowed down and contained.”

Blankfein, who owns $210 million worth of Goldman Sachs stock, defended his suggestions by claiming that “Social Security wasn’t devised to be a system that supported you for a 30-year retirement after a 25-year career.”

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"I made a mistake, but there are people who behave even worse."

Antonio Piazza captured on CCTV taking revenge after being fined for repeatedly leaving his car in a disabled parking spot

Local politician Anonio Piazza had been parking in the disabled spot for three years before finally being fined €80 and forced to move. Photograph: Sean Dempsey/PA

A local government official near Milan has become the latest hate figure for Italians fed up with arrogant, corrupt politicians after he slashed the tyres of a disabled driver who dared to report him for parking his Jaguar in a disabled spot.

Antonio Piazza, a member of Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom party, parked his car in the spot outside his office in Lecco for three years and was incensed when police officers finally fined him €80 (£64) and made him move his car to make space for disabled driver Giuseppe Scuderi to park his Renault.
Half an hour later, after the police had left, Piazza returned with a knife and slashed Scuderi's two front tyres, forgetting he was being filmed by CCTV, before later repenting and offering to fix them.

The episode caps a series of scandals at local government level in Italy, stretching from Piedmont to Sicily, which have caused public faith in municipal and regional politicians to plummet – notably in the Lazio region, where the governor has resigned and a senior official in Berlusconi's party has been arrested over embezzlement allegations.
Piazza at first tried to appeal against his parking fine, claiming he had given a lift to a disabled person, but has now grudgingly resigned from his job running a regional housing agency under pressure from his party, claiming: "I made a mistake, but there are people who behave even worse."
I don't know what it is about this that really sticks in my craw, the arrogance, the cheek, the ethos. He's like one of those damn Mussolini black shirts from the thirties. 

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Google Street View displays panoramas of stitched images taken from a fleet of specially adapted cars. Areas not accessible by car, like pedestrian areas, narrow streets, alleys and ski resorts, are sometimes covered by Google Trikes (tricycles)[3] or snowmobiles.[4][5] On each of these vehicles there are nine directional cameras for 360° views at a height of about 8.2 feet, or 2.5 meters, GPS units for positioning and three laser range scanners from Sick AG for the measuring of up to 50 meters 180° in the front of the vehicle.[6] These are used for recording a rough 3D model of the surroundings, enabling faux-3D transitions between distinct panoramas where the environment images are momentarily mapped onto this 3D model while being crossfaded to create an animated perspective change as the user travels from one panorama to another. There are also 3G/GSM/Wi-Fi antennas for scanning 3G/GSM and Wi-Fi hotspots.[7] More recently, high quality images have been based on open source hardware cameras from Elphel.

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