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- soonermandan, on 11/07/2009, -4/+57god i am so ***** sick of this *****.
- nahsrocketeer75, on 11/05/2009, -1/+46Hey, it's nice to see these folks finally catch a break. (sigh)
- karlishappy, on 11/07/2009, -3/+35Seriously, Put these ***** capital barons against the ***** wall. They are using our money, our collective toil and sweat to shore up the entrenchments around they're institutionalized pyramid scheme.
How can we just watch this happen? Where is the outrage? I'm honestly asking, What can we do? Have they built a system impossible to change? There are lenders in the temple, And the priests don't care, Because They're the lenders.
We're *****! . - Tyrghast, on 11/07/2009, -4/+27Many of those bonuses could each feed multiple families for a year or two. Instead the suits who took the jobs away and food off the tables get to fatten their wallets even more.
- eastwood24, on 11/05/2009, -2/+22FTA: excuse why they must get bonuses: "Underpaid banking stars will leave for private equity firms and hedge funds leaving the largest banks on Wall Street stripped of their best talent."
You know if bonuses were based on actual performance of employees, good employees would be rewarded and the ***** ones that contributed towards bankrupting these bohemeths of a corporation would have not. But that makes sense right! - travdiggsit, on 11/07/2009, -2/+17They need those bonuses to light their cigars.
- Kaegro, on 11/07/2009, -7/+21lol because this is American tax payer money going to "Americans" who use oversea banks to avoid taxes. And instead of fixing the problem, all the American people and its government can do is point fingers on who's fault it is ( NOT Obama's btw). And with the US unemployment rate still not stabilizing, where is Wall St. going to get their money next year?
Stay classy America - Ninh, on 11/06/2009, -0/+14Let them leave, save the money.
- itsthemechanic, on 11/07/2009, -1/+15*****, reading this with my breakfast coffee, I think the playlist to start the day on is Rage Against The Machine.
Seriously, this will only stop when these financial bastards are hanging from the lamp-posts in New York, London and Frankfurt. Or just bend over and take it up the ass some more folks. It's your choice. - seltaeb4, on 11/07/2009, -2/+15The question is, why do we continue to tolerate this?
The Titans of Finance continue to bill us for fiscally raping us. Any right-winger who still bitches about "welfare mothers" after all this deserves to have teeth knocked out of his head. We just printed up a trillion dollars and gave it to the bankers, who whine and complain when any of their saviors (us) dare question the wisdom of paying multimillionaires multimillion dollar bonuses.
But God forbid that the American people should have healthcare. Go die in the gutter, peasant. If you really wanted to be well you'd not have let yourself get sick in the first place.
There is less and less to be proud of in America—and zero to be proud of when we consider the way we allow ourselves and our fellow Americans to be treated.
But always remember: Corporations can do no wrong. They love us, and want us to be happy. It's the American way. - soonermandan, on 11/07/2009, -2/+15It is. I'm seriously beginning to lose faith in this country. I know that's a terrible thing to say but for me it's getting to that point.
- inactive, on 11/07/2009, -0/+12while unemployment rises to record highs, so do wall street bonuses.
- Wosat, on 11/07/2009, -0/+10The banks are flush with new Fed dollars they're borrowing at a negative real interest rate. Why *wouldn't* they party like it's 1999 with the Fed raining dollars down on them?
- samsmartjr, on 11/07/2009, -1/+10Yeah, we're *****. And yes, the system is impossible to change.
Who makes the laws in our country? Our Congressmen, who are elected into office through votes. But how do they fund their campaigns? By taking in donations and giving more attention to those who contribute the most in donations to their campaigns. And who can contribute the most money to gain the most influence from our Congressmen? The corporations who would rather pay billions every year to politicians for their influence so they can maintain high executive salaries rather than pay that money directly to their workers for things like health insurance and retirement plans.
So the only way we can circumvent corporate influence over our lawmakers is to implement the ability for voters to pass referendums to federal law. Unfortunately, we do not have a proviso in the Constitution that allows voters to practice direct democracy on the federal level.
So until that time, we'll just have to deal with the corporatocracy our nation has evolved into. - mithrasinvictus, on 11/07/2009, -0/+8We've seen what their banking stars are capable of.
- samsmartjr, on 11/07/2009, -4/+12Personally, I'm not complaining about limited bonuses or when people start leaving because of low bonuses. If these douchebags want to leave a company or the U.S. to go somewhere else where they can ruin some other corporation or country with their greedy and destructive boom-bust plans. It's no wonder that our economy is in shambles when it's all the Wall Street bankers basically use big pump-and-dump schemes to become rich. Since when was that considered "the best talent" in this country?
- hurried, on 11/07/2009, -0/+8I hope you feel the same way when the guy in India or China with a graduate engineering degree is hired instead of you because he is willing to work for 1/4 of your pay. Just because they primarily only outsource low end jobs at this point, doesn't mean the trend won't move up the pay scale. Get back to us in a couple of years on how its going for American graduate engineers.
- hymneforthedead, on 11/07/2009, -2/+10in 20 years. America is doomed.
Great Depression X2. - AxisDenied, on 11/07/2009, -0/+7You and what currency?
- hurried, on 11/07/2009, -0/+7I don't advocate killing them, but they don't seem to have a problem with sending our troops into wars to die for this country while financially screwing their families here at home at the same time. They will give our jobs away to countries that don't adhere to our democratic prinicipals, and at the same time allow our service people to be killed to protect our democratic prinicpals. This is not right. No wonder people are having homicidal thoughts.
- ConfirmedCynic, on 11/07/2009, -2/+9You're clearly living in the past.
Companies like GM and GE and Coca Cola and so on can't move their jobs out of the country fast enough and do everything they can to break unions, screw employees and avoid taxes.
I'm not sure I'd even call what these bankers do a business, either. More like manipulate the market and leech off the manipulations. They're like a parasite; they're not contributing anything to their host. - Vaiper, on 11/07/2009, -0/+7Ya, it is getting a bit old isn't it?
- SPNKrPunk, on 11/07/2009, -3/+10Just how ***** tone deaf can a person be?
- spookyttws, on 11/07/2009, -2/+9Finally! I mean these people have had a hard year, they might as well be given the equivalent of an average American's annual income as a bonus just to make sure they don't defect to another company. /s
- PhilliesBlunt, on 11/07/2009, -0/+6If they leave, promote someone to replace them. You're telling me there aren't numerous people waiting to step in and fill this void? Some of whom have actual brains?
- pimpofpixels, on 11/07/2009, -1/+7We need these, lots of them.
http://urbanprankster.com/2009/07/ikea-guillotine/ - itsthemechanic, on 11/07/2009, -0/+6You wouldn't have to kill many, just make an example out of a few. Or you can keep taking it like the sheep you are. It's up to you, what's worth more, the fortunes of a few or the lives of billions?
These people have no ethics, they will sell anyone down the river to satisfy their own personal greed. Time to fight fire with fire. It's time for pitch forks and torches people. Your politicians won't help you, they've been bought and paid for. - hurried, on 11/07/2009, -1/+7What about all the years that there was no government intervention - and the system failed? Please explain how that happened. What caused the stock market crash of 1929? What caused the recent crash? I'm not baiting you - I really want your opinion.
- seltaeb4, on 11/07/2009, -1/+7More like an annual bonus ten times greater than the average American can expect to earn for a lifetime of work.
- mithrasinvictus, on 11/07/2009, -0/+5Let them leave, good riddance!
- hurried, on 11/07/2009, -0/+5Yeah, they call that mob rule. Apparently having us decide things will make a mess. I have often wished they would put the health care bill on the national ballot - let us decide. I don't have a problem with how it turns out - even if I don't get my way - as long as it is decided by the majority of voters - and not the corporations.
- DiggerLater, on 11/07/2009, -5/+10rich get rich, poor get poor. Chains we can believe in.
- mithrasinvictus, on 11/07/2009, -0/+5They'll keep doing it until they are stopped. Apparently this recession wasn't bad enough to inspire measures, maybe the next one will.
- ConfirmedCynic, on 11/07/2009, -1/+6Have to wonder: where are the shareholders or partners in these companies? Why aren't they scooping all the profits at the same time they downsize and squeeze salaries and pressure employees into longer hours (i.e. more unpaid work)? You know, like the they do to the rest of us?
- acknotSW, on 11/07/2009, -1/+6I'm not a conspiracy nut, I don't believe in prophecies, and the world is not going to end in 2012. I don't believe that we are on the verge of a total societal collapse followed by a bloody and violent revolution, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a mini social revolution that will do away with some of this *****.
- LinuxLiberty, on 11/07/2009, -1/+5I'm a free market libertarian and don't have any problem with people making money or 'big business" in general. However Wall Street and our banking system have nothing to do with the free market, they make their money by extorting tax money from the government and by secretly confiscating everyone's wealth through inflation. They are a bunch of ***** parasites ripping off the rest of America.
- hurried, on 11/07/2009, -0/+4I think many of us should be prepared to eat less in the coming years. At least that will solve our obesity epidemic - ah look - a silver lining.
- throop77, on 11/07/2009, -0/+3Both political parties believe we need to bailout wallstreet at all costs, so this will never change.
- smashTasker, on 11/07/2009, -1/+4Ben Bernanke should be thrown in jail.
- ygeoff419, on 11/07/2009, -0/+3Dugg for "doucheturd" by far one of the dumbest things I have ever read.
- LinuxLiberty, on 11/07/2009, -5/+8Just think, that is where all the bailout money is going. You, but even more likely your children will be paying for these ***** bankers for decades to come. What irritates me the most is people blame this on capitalism, what horse *****. The Federal Reserve and our entire banking system is right out of one of the planks in the Communist Manifesto. Plank #5: "Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly".
These Wall Street communists remind me of the pigs from Animal Farm, "Everybody is equal, but some people are more equal than others". - zynasis, on 11/07/2009, -0/+3who are we kidding, no justice will come and this will continue to happen over and over...
slowly people will forget about it and the fat cats will be long gone with enough money to live the rest of their lives in pure luxury. - mrgreenjeans, on 11/07/2009, -0/+3"But always remember: Corporations can do no wrong. They love us, and want us to be happy. It's the American way."
It really is the American way. Read "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthrow_(book) - brad3378, on 11/07/2009, -1/+4Why did you pick 20 years? Most people here are leaning closer towards 20 days.
- mithrasinvictus, on 11/07/2009, -0/+3Nationalization means public ownership.
Since the government does not control the federal reserve, it is not a nationalized institution. - denizen42, on 11/07/2009, -0/+3Lobbying and all similar practices, are overall what the problem is.
- caio6939, on 11/07/2009, -0/+3well wtf they'll take all the jobs.. there are billion of them D:
- magibeg, on 11/07/2009, -0/+3Ah not even unfortunately. People end up buying cheaper foods that are higher in fats because it costs too much to eat healthy. May actually get fatter.
- ygeoff419, on 11/07/2009, -1/+3they took our jobs!
- diemunkiesdie, on 11/07/2009, -0/+2So are we getting mad preemptively this time or did people not notice that it said "the Wall Street Journal predicts"?
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