01 How Goldman Sachs created the Food Crisis

Moya Lázaro, Fernando

To understand this essay is essential to read this article:http://uvpress.blogs.uv.es/2011/09/13/04-how-goldman-sachs-created-the-food-crisis/

Greed is what moves money. Goldman Sachs managers were extremely clever when they saw the opportunities that making a new way of trading in the commodities market would offer them.  But, how did they get it? Wasn’t there an institution to monitor and protect?

Doing a little research, I found out that Goldman Sachs had been disposing their men in the USA governments’ influential positions. Goldman Sachs is not a company that supports republicans or democrats; they have been working and making donations to both of them. They worked with the Clinton’s administration, Bush’s administration and finally they have some people in Obama’s administration.

What are the compensations? Well, the executives return to the firm with an agenda full of influential contacts and they have already ingrained the ideas of the company in the political agenda.

Are we able to do anything? As long as we are in a crisis, we are only concerned about our pocket. We take our hand out of the pocket and see how much money we have left; we don’t raise our head and watch the whole picture of what is happening and why people are starving. In fact, if we had the opportunity of making money quickly, we wouldn’t care about what happened to the others.

We should have done something when we had the chance. The time to do things is when the economy is wealthy, when there is a crisis it is impossible.

Did Goldman Sachs really create the food crisis? Yes, they did the best they could to make it possible, but we are not blameless. We looked aside when we shouldn’t have done it. We can say “I did not know what Goldman Sachs was doing.” But we did not know or we did not want to know.

URL’s:

http://uvpress.blogs.uv.es/2011/09/13/04-how-goldman-sachs-created-the-food-crisis/

http://www.infowars.com/obama-administration-goldman-sachs-from-top-to-bottom/

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0820-06.htm