Jesu, did you hear that report on that Goldman Sach's banker's bonus on MSNBC now?

[Skidmore]

$100M to be given as a BONUS!, a freaking bonus! Hell, yeah, I'm ready for a freaking rich tax, with a special one for these lying, thieving bankers. Here we sit with no dependents worrying every year about having to pay in on the maybe the millionth zero following the decimal on this guy's BONUS!....and he doing this to thumb his nose at the President. Spiteful SOB, with a HUUUUUUUGGGGEEEEE sense of entitlement.

How many legislators does that *hole own?

Edited to correct title, written in a moment of seeing red....

[Lasher]

1. We need serious corporate reform.

Starting with Boards of Directors.

[Berry Cool]

2. This should be headline news.

People are starving in this country for lack of a job--ANY job--and this person is getting paid one hundred million dollars, not as wages, but as a BONUS--a BONUS for excellent performance--in response to work that resulted in the company going into the toilet.

There is something very, very wrong with this country.

[lib_wit_it]

18. The entire issue, including the fact of the unprecedented disparity of income between those dudes

and the rest of us, should be shoved in the face of every American. Just as the idea that any transfer of wealth that would happen now through raising taxes on the ultra-rich would be just a step in the direction of getting back our money that "transfered" to them by Bush ought to be voiced any time someone talks about "class warfare, etc. I'm so sick of Dems not finding a way to counter the lies of the reich wing.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Was that bonus in stock, at all?

Was wondering if it was a "paper" value.
and of course I agree it is shockingly high.
these guys have unimaginable arrogance.

[SpiralHawk]

4. "More more more tax cuts for rich republicons." - Rush DraftDodger Limbaugh (R)

[L0oniX]

5. Same ol situation.The poor dude was expecting 150 mil ...what will he do now?

Oh I know ...spend corp money on politics so he can keep getting the gold.

[shireen]

10. oh L0onix, i keep wanting to shoo that bug away ....

you get me every time! :silly:

[high density]

6. AIG?

I think you possibly mean Goldman Sachs? Not that it makes it any better, of course.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4251332

[Skidmore]

7. Thanks.

I'll correct. They were talking about AIG too. I was pretty steamed.

[blueworld]

8. Wish I could recommend this about 100M times...n/t

[shireen]

9. but .... but .... but .... he was doing God's work!

:sarcasm:

:mad: :mad: :mad:

[concerned1]

11. Another BONUS for Wall Street?? How about sending them to China for judicial processing.

[flyarm]

12. I read about it last night in British papers! ..glad to see someone picked it up here..

but this surprises anyone how???????

Actually the brits were damn glad he wasn't their own..but then again they said he wouldn't collect shit from them!

[cliffordu]

13. Can't there be some kind of class action based on fraud

and malfeasance??

Burn his mercedes in the middle of the street??

Drive him underground??

[Swamp Rat]

15. Like a tent stake

;) :D

[cliffordu]

16. Now you're talking.

:hi:


Howdy!

[Uncle Joe]

14. I would only amend; that he's thumbing his nose at 99+% of all Americans.

Thanks for the thread, Skidmore.

[donheld]

17. We need to storm the fort

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. Time to storm the Bastille

These fuckheads think they're royalty. And the correct spelling should be Goldman Sacks

[JoeyT]

20. Noo! That would be class war!

I really wish we had a pearl clutching smiley.
:banghead: will have to do.

Of course if it were really a class war, we'd just take his bonus and use it for job creation.
"Since you're doing Gawd's work, you'll be happy to know that your bonus created two thousand new jobs. So thanks to you two thousand people will be able to comfortably take care of their families for a year."

[opihimoimoi]

21. Is he gonna give some to them Haitians who need lottsa help?? Just askin

[Canuckistanian]

22. That's about $274,000 per DAY

Nice work if you can get it.

[quaker bill]

23. The funny thing

is that there is nothing new about this. 100 million dollar bonuses have been going out the door to CEOs and other executive management types since the 1980s. Micheal Eisner (Disney) CEO, took $300 million one year while consuming federal low income housing grants for his workers and battling against unions fighting for living wages and improved benefits for his workers. He is but one small example.

Our landed aristocracy has been taking us to the cleaners since Reagan, cutting jobs / salaries / benefits, to "reduce costs" while pocketing $100 million dollar checks for the effort. The more aggressive they have been at destroying the American industrial base and with it our economy, the larger the checks they have received.

Only a few years back these guys were seen as the "captains of industry" for doing the same things that we now seem to see as the behavior of "robber barons". It is a good change.