Blankfein Thanks His Boys
And Goldman's credit default derivatives

Bingo, fellow croupiers;
    we've conned those bums again.
We lost two key competitors
    but only Bernie's in the pen.

And so far only Jamie Dimon
    seems ro have a clue
'Bout how our machinations work,
    so let's review a few:

Derivatives are such great cons
    for all we need's a buyer,
A Kudlow sucker who's convinced
    that what we sell goes higher,

When all we're offering for sale's
    a little piece of paper
Insuring someone's IOU
    who's party to the caper,

But whose name has been removed
    for "confidentiality."
Then so that Goldman's not accused
    of criminality,

We store all records of each sale
    on our official Kindle
So Amazon can wipe them off
    if Tim suspects a swindle.

Microsoft may have old Bing,
    but old Ben's in our pocket.
The first time Arnold IOU'd
    Ben OK'd us to hawk it.

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
7/22/09

To 'Goldman Sachs'
To 'Goldman's Bonus Pool'