boy I can hardly wait to hear the Wall Street bonuses this year

[rurallib]

that should spark some discussion on greed and tax cuts for the rich while many of us will forgo holidays this year.

[BlueJazz]

1. You mean on top of the bonus they got yesterday??

:)

[rurallib]

3. yep - you know those 'performance' bonuses

[midnight]

4. These bonuses...

Barely a week after it was disclosed that bankers in the City of London will share a pre-crisis level £7 billion bonus pot – even though businesses cannot get credit – it has emerged that many bailed-out bankers are set for record payouts to themselves for the second year in a row despite the faltering economy in the United States and modest revenues.

Pay and bonuses at US banks and hedge funds are up 4 per cent – £90 billion – on last year according to a study of banks, hedge funds and other financial industry firms by the Wall Street Journal.

Bankers’ payouts to themselves are rising faster than bank revenues and now account for at least 23 per cent of profits, according to the study.
At bailed-out Goldman Sachs, which expects a 13.5 per cent drop in revenue, the bankers’ payouts to themselves will nevertheless go up by 3.7 per cent.

Similar generosity is expected at JP Morgan Chase, which received a monumental and secret bailout, and also has the highest number of home foreclosures of any bank. JP Morgan Chase has hired former Prime Minister Tony Blair as an advisor to its board.

The bonus pools for top-tier management have been kept high by laying off lower-paid staff, according to the Wall Street Journal study.http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2010/10/bailed-out-bankers-set-for-another-bonus-bonanza/

[Turbineguy]

2. Please don't distract me just now.

I'm lubing up the guillotine.

[rurallib]

5. do me after you do yourself

[Common Sense Party]

7. That's what she said.

:hide:

[RandomThoughts]

6. Already made those arguements.

They were not responded to. Although interestingly there is a social engineering trick.

Do something, see how people react, keep doing it till they don't react, that is breaking a horse.


And why public option battle when back in forth in the media, till it seemed people would not yell, the concept is to burn people out on the discussion. Give them a way to vent on something like text typing, instead of letting it build to violence. Also why I don't get angry, or continue with same methods but move up in levels of action as other actions don't work.

Don't do the same thing over and over. Although while things happen, take the opportunity to sharpen your axe.


:shrug:

I do try to express, hoping they will listen, so they don't have to face a day. Maybe they don't know what it is like, without any bad feelings to anyone that is disabled, if you want to know what it is like.

Imagine in a moment, you use sight, hearing, speech, and warmth and touch. That is how some end up feeling. And why they are hard to reach, some are that way in life.