Lloyd's Prayer

After Goldman Sachs Chairman Lloyd Blankfein glibly said his firm was "doing God's work" during an interview (a remark which he later dismissed as a joke), the jokesters on Wall Street had a field day. Among the more clever:

Our Chairman,
Who Art At Goldman,
Blankfein Be Thy Name.
The Rally's Come. God's Work Be Done
On Earth, As There's No Fear Of Correction.

Give Us This Day Our Daily Gains,
And Bankrupt Our Competitors
As You Taught Lehman And Bear Their Lessons.
And Bring Us Not Under Indictment.
For Thine Is The Treasury,
The House And The Senate,
Forever And Ever.

Goldman

Given taxpayers bailed banks out last year after horrendous losses, and given these same taxpayers are either furloughed or unemployed today, and given Wall Street is now patting themselves on the back for the recent liquidity-induced market rally, and given Wall Street is about to pay itself $30 billion in bonuses, "Lord" Blankfein should choose his words more carefully next time.