What if Wall Street Banksters comitted themselves to honesty and honorable dealings?...Yep, What if angels flew out of Banksters asses every time they farted? What if intestinal worms stopped sucking the life blood of their hosts? Ain't gonna happen!.... Too big to fail is too big to be allowed to exist! Regulate them to death.

I've been praying for the last year that God would cause my Goldman account to go back up after they advised me to get into the market last year.

being jewish, i find it hilarious that they invoke any other religion other than 'starve the poor and shoot them from helicopter gunships.' or maybe 'lets build a new guard tower for the worlds largest prison camp' or how about 'does this old lame yammuka make my bald head look fat?'

Think this guy has a "Ego-God Syndrome" Kind of King Nebuchadnezzare in the book of Daniel?

Human beings appear to be a slave race languishing on
an isolated planet in a small galaxy. As such, the human race
appears to be a source of labor. To keep control over this possession and to maintain Earth as something of a prison, that other civilizations have bred, never-ending conflict between human beings, has promoted human spiritual decay, and has erected on Earth conditions of unremitting physical hardship.

The strength of "Rabbi Blankfein" lies in his ability to represent simultaneously the interests of the Submissives and the Rulers, whose religious and political needs, respectively, now change to coincide.

People like Blankfein are regarded favourably by the Rulers as a politically submissive class, which, with its wide influence over the Masses could translate the Peace imposed by the Ruler into Religious precepts. To the submissives, on the other hand, this ideology gave/gives the appearance of continuity to self-rule and freedom...Fama Fraternitis is alive and well with Blankfein and Goldman Sachs.

Will Blankfein create competition for the Vatican?
Heaven help us.

What is astounding, to me, is that Mr. Blankfein is so far gone, so amoral, that he could actually make such a statement publicly! This is one man so deeply immersed in a culture of greed and the Peter Principle, he can no longer see what is wrong with what he said and so declared it with no sense of shame or embarrassment whatsoever.

We've actually seen many of these Wall Streeters portraying themselves as victims, ie: the exec who wrote the New York Times piece. It is stunning how far removed from reality these people became as their net worth grew.

No wonder they all want to live in gated communities. Reinforces their belief that they should even by physically separated from the riff-raff.

Want to do God's work, Mr. Blankfein? Live humbly and modestly. Know others. Know how your actions affect EVERYONE, not just the few in your inner circle, but those who are negatively impacted as well.

Virtuous? I'd settle for moderately competent. Maybe even the lower level virtue of Dawinian capitalism, where success, not failure, is rewarded. Forget the virtue of a higher level calling.

One hardly needs to find God to be ethical, in fact,often it's a liability, but hey, whatever works for these greedy corporate types.

"What if Wall Street actually did truly commit itself to a new, virtuous cycle that defined ambition and success in terms of both profitability and the common good?"

The problem here is equating the "common good" with what is good for a "church" and they are most definitely not the same thing.
I grew up in metro Detroit and often heard "what is good for GM is good for the country" and you see how well that turned out.

Lloyd Blankfein is not Goldman Sachs. He is merely the CEO of an extremely successful corporation whose primary responsibility fiduciary should be to its shareholders. Somehow, in the past fifteen to twenty years this simple tenet has been usurped by executive insiders and clouded by government officials and community advocates. Along the way the board of directors have either been stacked so they nearly always favor insiders or simply neglect their responsibility to shareholders. As result we have ended up in a situation where Goldman and many other financial firms view it as a right to be paid extraordinary amounts of money despite strong evidence that it isn't an absolute necessity and that extraneous factors have created extraordinary opportunities. We have created a marketplace where people like Blankfein evoke religious, philosophical and sports analogies to justify their so-called rights to be over compensated.

The government has permitted Goldman Sachs to survive through zero financing from the Fed discount window, $10 billion in capital when none was available, TALF backed bonds and the bailout of AIG that let Goldman receive $ for $ on CDS derivatives that were only worth 25 cent on the dollar. GS was able to receive $18bn in collateral from AIG. Plus the government has intentionally driven the yield curve to be sharply upward sloping to bailout lenders. If you could borrow at 0.25% and invest at 3.25% on hundred of billions then it is easy to make money "trading." Also as a consequence of a zero interest rates and trillion dollar deficits the US dollar has collapsed. The government has clearly created billions of dollars of "strong trading" opportunities for Goldman and most of Wall Street. Without these explicit supports Goldman and others would probably not have survived last year's market collapse.

Now these robber barons have the gall to pay in excess of $16 billion in bonuses to staff or $600,000 per person. It is easy to estimate the benefits they received from the government. Goldman should do the right thing and return its "excess" profits to its shareholders and let them decide if they want to give it away to charities or simply spend it. There is nothing wrong with making money, but there is something wrong with taking money when it isn't deserved.

Transform Goldman into a do-good organization? Don't be ridiculous. The simple remedy for greed lies in the income tax laws. Confiscatory taxation of annual income above ten million dollars would work wonders.

Just shows people what a guy raking in million or billions of dollars has for brains. And the arrogance.

Obviously he is over paid. God, indeed. May be the real one will cut him down to size.

" Lloyd Blankfein says Goldman Sachs is " doing God's work. "

Since when does " God " ever get bailed out ?

Is that a " 666 " on Mr. Blankfein's forehead ?

I want some of whatever Blankfein is smoking.