Another piece of socialist propaganda that reads like Nazi and Communist propaganda. You are supposed to get really, really mad at those filthy capitalists and replace them with... benevolent, caring government.
Sadly, great many conservatives on this forum share these feelings with the socialists.
1 posted on
01/09/2010 12:04:19 PM PST by
TopQuark
To: TopQuark
Industry executives acknowledge that the numbers being tossed around six-, seven- and even eight-figure sums for some chief executives and top producers will probably stun the many Americans still hurting from the financial collapse and ensuing Great Recession.
Goldman Sachs is expected to pay its employees an average of about $595,000 apiece for 2009, one of the most profitable years in its 141-year history. Workers in the investment bank of JPMorgan Chase stand to collect about $463,000 on average.
Many executives are bracing for more scrutiny of pay from Washington, as well as from officials like Andrew M. Cuomo, the attorney general of New York, who last year demanded that banks disclose details about their bonus payments. Some bankers worry that the United States, like Britain, might create an extra tax on bank bonuses, and Representative Dennis J. Kucinich, Democrat of Ohio, is proposing legislation to do so.
2 posted on
01/09/2010 12:04:33 PM PST by
TopQuark
To: TopQuark
Has Goldman paid back all the Goverment money they were granted under TARP yet?
4 posted on
01/09/2010 12:11:03 PM PST by
MNJohnnie
(Demand Constitutionality)
To: TopQuark
The difference between a society of slaves and one of free men is very slight: free men have an opportunity to become one financially independent, to gain an amount of property that allows them to provide comfortably for themselves and their children, and maybe even their grandchildren without continuous toil. People like George Soros would have us pull up the ladder now, so that he and his fellow billionaires can enjoy the upper echelon for themselves, transforming us into a society of slaves.
These people who work and make big paydays are a CRUCIAL link in the chain from us normal people to the upper echelons. Without such links, we are suddenly no different from the slaves who are given a ration of food, housing, plasmascreen TVs by overlords.
5 posted on
01/09/2010 12:14:13 PM PST by
chuck_the_tv_out
( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
To: TopQuark
Sadly, great many conservatives on this forum share these feelings with the socialists. As a shareholder of many of these banks through index funds, I can say it stinks. Although they had some what of a nice recovery this year after the near death experience, the stocks are still way down in most cases.
As a taxpayer, these guys would be shining shoes if it weren't for the TARP money and trading their way out of the problem they created..
10 posted on
01/09/2010 12:52:08 PM PST by
EVO X
To: TopQuark
I don’t begrude them bonuses, but I would like to know just what they did to deserve them. If the taxpayers hadn’t bailed them out, they wouldn’t even have a draw.
20 posted on
01/09/2010 5:19:15 PM PST by
razorback-bert
(Just call me mohhamed-bert when I am flying.)
To: TopQuark
We paid for the bonuses with TARP money.
The rape of America by NYC continues.
21 posted on
01/10/2010 12:32:27 AM PST by
NoLibZone
(Be of good cheer, could have been worse - McCain could have won! Right?)
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