Quite a few of them are already back at the table gambling away with the taxpayer’s money and peddling their new “financial products”; they know that when the next crash comes, the taxpayer will have no choice but to bail them out again. Only some stalwarts timidly point to the inflammatory question posed by Mack the Knife in Berthold Brecht’s Threepenny Opera: “What is a bank robbery compared to the founding of a bank?
尽管依靠篡改帐目误导金融监管机构，但却没有一位作恶的金融赌徒被因此绳之以法。恰恰相反，破产的银行家们却都在提起诉讼，索回他们认为应得的百万美金红利。很多人已经拿纳税人的钱再次回到赌桌，并开始推销所谓新的“金融产品”。他们清楚如果再来一次危机，纳税人除了再次为他们埋单外依然别无选择。只有少数顽固份子还怯生生地提起“小麦飞刀”在贝托尔特·布莱希特的三分钱歌剧中曾经提到的煽动性质问：“抢劫银行比起创建银行来算得了什么？溜门撬锁比起公司债券来算得了什么？”但这个口号起源于20世纪20年代，似乎更像是对舞台上看到的过去动荡的一种怀旧。