"an alternate version of the famous scene from A Few Good Men"

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I found this delightful post in the comment section of Zero Hedge under the following:

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Rational Exuberance

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/05/2012 - 15:14">>>

<<<"For those 'who' missed this the other day:

YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH

In an alternate version of the famous scene from A Few Good Men, I picture myself telling Turbo Tax Timmy Geithner that I want the truth and his angry truthful response:

“Son, we live in a world that has Wall Street banks, and those banks have to be guarded by puppet politicians in Washington D.C. with lobbyist written laws and Madison Avenue PR maggots with media propaganda. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Representative Paul? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for the average middle class American family, and you curse the ruling oligarchs. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That the death of the American middle class, while tragic, probably saved the bonuses of thousands of Wall Street bankers. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, increases the wealth of these same bankers who destroyed the worldwide economic system in 2008. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about in the food bank line, you want me on Wall Street, you need me on Wall Street. We use words like derivative, fiscal stimulus, quantitative easing. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent syphoning off the wealth of the nation. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very debt that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up 1000 shares of Apple, and hope our high frequency trading supercomputers can ramp the market for a while longer. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.” ">>>

The "rational exuberance" comment is attributed to Alan Greenspan whom I first encountered when I read the articles he contributed to Ayn Rand's Capitalism:The Unknown Ideal, one of which is entitled Gold and Economic Freedom.

It still is inconceivable that he once understood the nature of money and the relationship of gold to money and the nature of fiat currency but abandoned those concepts when he became Chairman of the Federal Reserve System.

He was known for his manner of speaking, in his comments to Congressional hearings of the banking committee, in which he engaged in such verbiage that his explanations were actually obfuscation of the issues at hand. They bordered on the way Hegel wrote in such a way as to lead to confusion rather than lucidity but in a manner suggesting mastery of the subject being discussed.

The movie A Few Good Men is one of our favorites with a marvelous buildup toward the climactic scene. The lawyer who prosecutes the case is presented as one who caused every case he dealt with to result in acceptance of a plea deal rather than a trial and he hardly had ever seen the inside of a courtroom.

The speech being reworked above is given by Jack Nicholson and is a classic.

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The banker told the truth. That is why the banker and his friends and his political puppets must be destroyed.

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