This just makes me laugh...

[Bread and Circus]

I know a lot of these folks are "people too" but still...for some reason, I just don't give a flying fuck if these assholes can find another job.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/nyregion/19bankers.html?ref=business

City Will Help Retrain Laid-Off Wall Streeters

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By PATRICK McGEEHAN
Published: February 18, 2009

Just as Michigan is scrambling to retrain laid-off auto workers, New York City officials have come up with a plan to find new work for the unemployed from one of its core industries: financial services.

Under a program unveiled on Wednesday by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, the city wants to invest $45 million in government money to retrain investment bankers, traders and others who have lost jobs on Wall Street, as well as provide seed capital and office space for new businesses those laid-off bankers might create.

The plan is intended to stem a potential exodus of banking professionals from the city during the restructuring of the financial services industry, which has been the city’s economic engine for decades, and to speed the industry’s recovery, which will take at least several years, officials said.

City officials also plan to try to lure big banks and financial companies from Asia and elsewhere to set up operations in New York, filling some of the void created by the implosion of large American firms like Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns. They hope the federal and state governments will let them use $30 million in federal money to attract those companies and other financial firms to Lower Manhattan.

Mr. Bloomberg said that he could not predict how the financial services business would bounce back, but he said he was confident that it eventually would.

[BanzaiBonnie]

1. They don't need that much training to be ditch diggers,

weed right of ways and pick up trash,


Sorry, I have little sympathy for those who took advantage of this whole situation.

[Cerridwen]

2. Why not just give them jobs that "Americans" "don't want".

You know, all those jobs that are supposedly too much work for us lazy Americans? It's a two-fer. They get to work and make money while traveling around the US and we get to keep those "creepy" brown people from south of the border out of our holier-than-everyone-else country.

It should be quite an education for all concerned.

I predict union organizing would happen moments after they find out what those jobs actually entail.