Sounds like something a mugger might say to you on the street before relieving you of your wallet, but this isn't on a sidewalk, it was a quick press conference and Neel Kashkari was leading it. Who is Kashkari you ask? He used to be a top executive at Goldman Sachs but now is an assistant to Secretary Paulson. He's relatively green in this position and while he loves taking the taxpayers' money to get him and his buddies out of the jam they created (for us all), he hates answering questions and being held accountable.
From The NY Post:
Yeah, well technically we are still under the Bush Administration so scrutiny and oversight is not what these people prefer. He never really answered anyone's questions but didn't mind giving out billions in loans of our money. Seriously, they are all scumbags at the top of the Treasury Department. President-elect Obama better be coming up with people to replace the shameless goons who are running that agency right now.The interim assistant secretary of the Treasury for financial stabilization yesterday had a tone of impatience during a question-and-answer session, leaving some attendees feeling cheated.
The Q&A followed a keynote speech that Kashkari gave at a conference in Midtown Manhattan, which was attended by hundreds of financial executives.
When it came time for questions, the former Goldman Sachs executive told the eager audience that he had time for just "two or three."
In response to the first question, about the government's latest lifeline for beleaguered insurance company American International Group, Kashkari gave a clipped response before quickly moving on.
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