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What if you were an expert

In business, pushing funds around

Look at the things you can do

Look at the money you've found

Someone slips you an offer

Without making a sound

What actions do you choose

What do you decide to do now

They say they'll put you up at the top

Of your business profession

For some big corporation's

Political obsession

A potential chance to have it made

Is in your possession

At the cost of oppression

Or another great depression

I was volunteering to act as the president of the companies

And I would go in and—my job was to liquidate them

I'd get rid of the expendable containers, that's the people

And we'd raid all the assets and we'd split 'em

When we got through doing all that

Anyway, as I was running around the country

I got introduced to a lot of, you know, the powerful people

And one weekend I was invited up to Aspen

I come into the meet—this room and I said

"What am I here for?" and they said

"We want you to be the Finance Chairman for the next President of the United States"

What if you're not selfless

And your greed is bigger than you

You close your eye, you hold your breath

And you do what they want you to do

What if your influence to some degree

Determines what we go through

You do it again, and again, and again, and again

To try to feel right about what you do

And it gets worse

It gets worse

It gets worse

And it gets worse

It gets worse

It gets worse

And it gets worse

It gets worse

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And it gets worse

It gets worse

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And it gets worse

It gets worse

What if your influence to some degree

Determines what we go through

You do it again, and again, and again, and again

To try to feel right about what you do

Anyway, I said, "Well, I have the next question, why me?"

And they said "Well, number one, you're pretty good with money"

"And we owe you a favor" and I said

"Well, the next question I have is who's going to be the next President?"

And he said "Jimmy Carter"

And I said, "Jimmy who?"

And he said "Well he's the Democratic Governor of Georgia"

And I said "But I've been voting Republican"

And this tall guy, Paul Volcker, walks over and says

"Son, don't worry about it, we control them both"

And I was running around with the guys, I

But I didn't have the

Each one of them

They compartmentalize all the information that you get

Okay

You know you can go

When you're with the people that are making the plays

They have certain ego things that they want to satisfy

I mean—Kissinger said "The absolute aphrodisiac is power"

So we put anybody they want to in power

And then just feed 'em whatever they want to do

I mean—I joked about it

I could wear my jeans and go down and borrow

You know, borrow a million bucks on my signature

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