Friday, March 27, 2009

Lula is right on this

'Blue-eyed bankers' to blame for crash, Brazil's Lula tells Gordon Brown | World news | guardian.co.uk

"White, blue-eyed bankers are entirely to blame for the world financial crisis that has ended up hitting black and indigenous people disproportionately, the president of Brazil declared .

In an outspoken intervention as Gordon Brown stood alongside him, Luiz Inacio 'Lula' da Silva pledged to make next week's G20 summit 'spicy' as he accused the rich of forcing the poor into greater hardship.

'This crisis was caused by no black man or woman or by no indigenous person or by no poor person,' Lula said after talks with the prime minister in Brasilia to discuss next week's G20 summit in London.

'This crisis was fostered and boosted by irrational behaviour of some people that are white, blue-eyed. Before the crisis they looked like they knew everything about economics, and they have demonstrated they know nothing about economics.'"


But I bet some of them at least had brown eyes.

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