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On CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s Statement That Goldman Sachs Is ‘Doing God’s Work’

The Lord has got an itch to see these folks filthy rich.

Calvin Trillin

November 18, 2009

On every seventh day the Lord can rest. He knows that Goldman Sachs will do its best To work away at that for which He’d hanker: A pot of dough for each investment banker.

As He looks down at us from high above, The Lord’s not interested in peace and love And such as that. The Lord has got this itch To see the Goldman Sachs folks filthy rich.

He wishes they had more than what they’ve got– Another house or two, another yacht. His hopes for these to whom he gave the nod: More money, as the saying goes, than God.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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