http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/opinion/28dowd.html?em
Wall Streets Socialist Jet-Setters
The Citiboobs as The New York Post, which broke the news, calls them watched as the car chieftains got in trouble for flying their private jets to Washington to ask for bailouts, and the A.I.G. moguls got dragged before Congress for spending their bailout on California spa treatments. But the boobs still didnt get the message.
The former masters of the universe dont seem to fully comprehend that their universe has crumbled and, thanks to them, so has ours. Real people are losing real jobs at Caterpillar, Home Depot and Sprint Nextel; these and other companies announced on Monday that they would cut more than 75,000 jobs in the U.S. and around the world, as consumer confidence and home prices swan-dived.
In an interview with Maria Bartiromo on CNBC, Thain used the specious, contemptible reasoning that other executives use to rationalize why theyre keeping their bonuses as profits are plunging.
If you dont pay your best people, you will destroy your franchise and theyll go elsewhere, he said.
Hello? They destroyed the franchise. Lets call their bluff. Lets see what a great job market it is for the geniuses of capitalism who lost $15 billion in three months and helped usher in socialism.
When E.F. Hutton folded...the joke was what do you call a former employee of E.F. Hutton...hey waiter. These companies caused this and must take their lumps sames as anyone else...in fact more lumps are in order.