Bush Treasury secretary Henry Paulson of Goldman Sachs threatened corrupt or gullible congressmen with revolution (and said the government was making plans to feed the people--ha!) if his firm and its allies did not get quadrillion-dollar bailouts. Everything changed when Obama, whose largest donor was Goldman Sachs, came to power, of course, and appointed GS-ally Tim Geithner as Treasury secretary. (Thanks to Justin Raimondo)