Let's get technical: A "Shitty Deal" defined

Levin says "Shitty Deal" eleven times. A rare victory for authenticy and manna for a 100 million brains begging, jonesing, for a fog-lamp or a cattle prod. It's a tough call, but this one falls in the lower left quadrant.



But damn, it's hard not to think that the Goldman-esque mindset doesn't take some actual pleasure in just breaking people because, well, just because they can. And it's nothing new...

Welcome to R-Complexville (2004):

For instance, whose "values statement" says this:

Communication. Excellence. Respect. Integrity.

Why, it's these guys: [Enron]

Guy #1: "They're fucking taking all the money back from you guys?" "All the money you guys stole from those poor grandmothers in California?"

Guy #2: "Yeah, grandma Millie, man"

Guy #1: "Yeah, now she wants her fucking money back for all the power you've charged right up, jammed right up her asshole for fucking $250 a megawatt hour."

Gracious me. That's not how college educated, customer-centric, All-American businesspeople were supposed to speak in the brochures I got. People in positions of power and responsisbility, guardians of American propriety and restraint, know better. Yes, those fellows must have been an aberration, have to be...

Okay, Tea Partiers. You wanna be ticked off? Go picket the Business Roundtable or your local Chamber or Biz School and demand to know how something as vital and potentially noble as commerce has gotten it's head so far up its ass that YOUR guts are now wrenched up in knots.