Risk Management

by digby

For some reason people seem to suggest that there’s something wrong with the Goldman Sachs executives getting access to the flu vaccine before everyone else. What’s the problem?

As everyone knows, the Wall Street Masters of the Universe are the most talented, valuable, productive, superior members of our society despite the fact they almost destroyed the economy and thus cannot be asked to give up their obscenely greedy bonuses even as unemployment is at 10%. So it stands to reason that they should be at the front of the line for the H1N1 vaccines. We simply can’t take the chance that the most essential people in our entire nation might get sick.

Sure, they may not technically be in the high risk groups, many of whom are unable to get the vaccines, but we can’t afford to take any risks with our most precious national resources: hedge fund managers and investment bankers. Although they took outrageous, irresponsible risks with the world economy, as if they were drunks putting it all on red at a sleazy Las Vegas casino, that’s no reason for us to do the same thing with their health. Let’s keep our priorities straight here. John Galt always goes first.

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