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more about #rant more comments → Hydroceph: Hmmm, trickle down and the idea that interior decorators (or what have you) need love too...er, need to work too, reminds me of Maslow's Need Hierarch... more » Mediahohoho: Look, the basis upon which bankers hit up the government--that without taxpayer money, credit would freeze up--turned out to be total bollocks anyway.... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: let me break it down > success: pay yourself whatever you want > failure: go home > taking government money and paying yourself whatever you ... more » NotChoinski: So bankers are like waitresses in that a salary is is a meager formality and everyone is expected to live off Tips (regardless of the quality of servi... more » Cheap Shot: Let's face it, if it weren't for bonuses these fucks would never get into finance in the first place. more » overunderover: Little known fact: Taxes get taken out of those bonuses. Taxes that like, pay for stuff like unemployment, and NY state taxes. In a warped way, that b... more » Heneage: I wouldn't be pissy about the amount of money these management teams are/were making if they were actually doing their job, but they have abdicated al... more » braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: I guess I'm not sure why giving money to the bankers results in more people having money--like designers and watchmakers &c.--but giving money to ... more » DrGirlfriend: You know what? My husband just got laid off, 1,000 people are projected to be laid off in total at this employer alone, and still the "executive leade... more » momo: Just love the California-based lens through which we are looking at New York lately. Whitney Port is in charge? more » Heneage: Where's ADS when we need him? more » Carol Gardens: I guess that screaming "free market", "trickle down", "class warfare", "protectionism" and etc just isn't working as well as it used to. Perhaps we no... more » laurenzero: Owen, I feel like maybe you have a plan of some kind with all these awful posts but I'm just not getting it yet. I look forward to the end result. more » uninspired: I'm not necessarily against banks getting money in the bailout, it's the unbelievable lack of oversight that creates these problems. Each bank handed ... more » MrInBetween: What a crock-pot of crapola. "Interior decorators need to earn a living, too" just makes my blood boil. Perhaps this post's author should stick to twe... more » -
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Squabbles Over Bankers' Bonuses and 'Wasteful' Spending Will Doom Us All
Washington views life as a zero-sum game: If you win, then I lose. Our leaders, in pursuing partisan passions, forget that the whole point of economic stimulus is to make the pie larger. More »
