Re: Banks Set for Record Pay - 18% over last year!!

[Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>]

> From: "Steve Lamont" <spl () ncmir ucsd edu>
> To: <dave () farber net>
> Date: January 15, 2010 10:55:53 AM EST
> Subject: Re: [IP] Banks Set for Record Pay - 18% over last year!!
>
> > > This is absolutely outrageous.  These shysters stole half or more of our
> > > collective life savings and then bought and conned our legislators into
> > > giving them a bailout which we will all pay for, every man, woman and child
> > > will be paying for this for decades.  Nothing has changed in this industry.
> > > It is staggering and must be reigned in.  When are the people going to wise
> > > up and start tossing incumbents out?
>
> While I agree that this is truly outrageous, it is a fraction of the
> estimated $3,000,000,000,000 that our adventures in Iraq and
> Afghanistan will cost
>
>       http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/04/stiglitz200804
>
> and, at least, the bankers haven't been bombing, killing, and maiming
> Iraqis and Afghanis (and now Pakistanis, as well), making us a new
> generation of enemies.  And that isn't even beginning to estimate the
> perhaps incalculable losses in American, British, and other
> "coalition" military and contractor lives and productivity, both on
> the books and off.
>
> The bankers are pikers when it comes to waste, fraud, and abuse.
>
>                                                       spl


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