Firstly; all they want is to be loved
The principal demand of the executives, the newspaper suggested, would be that governments "stop banker-bashing." Apparently bailing bankers out after they precipitated the worst slump since the Great Depression isn’t enough — politicians have to stop hurting their feelings, too.
Then; they want your money:
But the bankers also had a more substantive demand: they want higher interest rates, despite the persistence of very high unemployment in the United States and Europe, because they say that low rates are feeding inflation.
Yep, they want to screw you any way they can.
Next they are planning to buy a neat little black mask, a pony, and a revolver and then learn to say:
"Stand and deliver"
In 5,000+ different languages
Are these the same people that:
1] Caused the greatest financial meltdown since the Great Depression.
2] Caused millions to become unemployed.
3] Caused hundreds of thousands to lose their homes.
4] Caused millions to fall into poverty
5] Indebted whole countries for generations
Every day they should thank little Monetary Jesus that we didn't:
1] Nationalize the lot of them.
2] Break them up into manageable chunks.
3] Bury them up to their necks in regulations and regulators.
4] Repossess their personal assets to pay in part their losses.
5] Lock them up and throw away the key.
Rather than whining that we think they are bloody crooks they should thank their lucky stars we are stupid enough to let them get away with highway robbery.
Tell me what on earth have they done since the crisis that does not earn our scorn?
Give their bonuses to the treasury? I think not.
You're a bunch of thieves and charlatans, and here I'm being generous and polite.
Pity the poor bankers?
Not in a million years.