Public must learn to 'tolerate the inequality' of bonuses, says Goldman Sachs

[27inCali]

Bullshit!!!!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/oct/21/executive-pay-bonuses-goldmansachs

Well then, they're going to have to learn to tolerate OUR FUCKING BOOT IN THEIR ASS!!!!!!!!!!

[Oregone]

1. lol. Tolerate inequality.

:)

Hasn't there been enough of that?

[glitch]

38. They don't realize just how much we have tolerated from them, and that our tolerance is used up.

They think they live in a different world, time for a this world reality check.

[Flaneur]

2. Grrr. To the guillotines with them!

Are these guys TRYING to stir up a social revolution?

[tridim]

5. That's what it sounds like to anyone who isn't a filthy-rich banker.

They must still think their money will protect them.

[DireStrike]

21. I worry that we're getting to the point where it WILL

How much of the anti-anti-rich sentiment is due to their money being spent on politicians, laws, and the media? Why do we seem perpetually stuck at 50/50? It's almost as if somebody did a cost benefit analysis and said "ok, we just have to brainwash this many people to keep the system stable." Or, you know, they just threw money at the problem until it worked.

How much would it cost to provide complete protection? I'm sure they could afford protection from all reasonable threats if they started dropping. Sure, the occasional outside-the-box assassination attempt could break through the barrier, but more of them would probably die from accidental falls.

[mitchum]

3. Scumbag aristocrats must learn to tolerate the guillotine

[Sebastian Doyle]

4. Here's what I say to Goldmine Sucks, and every last stinking thief who ever worked there

Any questions?

[grasswire]

6. sounds like "get over it" to me

...again.

[Puzzler]

7. Good, then maybe "they"...

... and their fellow GOP'ers will tolerate things like the public option. Sounds fair, right?

[endless october]

8. then corporations are going to have to go without corporate welfare. n/t

[ddeclue]

9. En francaise: Let them Eat Cake.

:argh:

[DireStrike]

18. Yep, exactly.

[RKP5637]

10. Intent on taking the country down for their personal greed and profit. They don't give a ...

flying F about America. They use America as a tool to manipulate to pad their pockets with cash. These undesirables could give a F if the country succeeds or fails unless it interrupts their cash flow. They represent the complete failure of an out of control capitalistic system.

[RagAss]

11. Where's our Che ?

[jtrockville]

12. How much are we supposed to let these banksters make off with?

[brentspeak]

13. "Lord" Griffiths says that peons should be content to eat their cake n/t

[drm604]

14. Why should we be the ones to do the tolerating?

:shrug:

Let them try tolerating a less exorbitant lifestyle.

[crim son]

15. We've been tolerating it long enough.

We're unlearning the skill, TYVM.

[Zix]

16. Ah, that was an unwise thing to say.

[Hepburn]

17. ....

FUCK YOU, GOLDMAN SACHS!

EOM.... :grr:

[spanone]

19. there should be a reality show called 'got balls' they could be the first contestants

[newtothegame]

20. How exactly does your boot go in their ass? n/t

[Greyhound]

32. By accelerating the mass of the boot to a velocity significantly greater than required

to overcome the elastic collision with his anal sphincter.

[guitar man]

35. That's exactly right

And I got that straight from an expert :)

[santamargarita]

22. I could tolerate you Fat Republican Assholes out on the street

:puke:

[nadinbrzezinski]

33. One correction in this case CONSERVATIVE as in TORY

he is His Lordship... VP in the UK

Same dif, different country in some ways. He advised Thatcher...

[MichiganVote]

23. Neat idea. Its only the basis for every revolution the world has ever had.

[wildbilln864]

24. k&r! nt

[The Backlash Cometh]

25. I'll tolerate it when I'm in your shoes, and you're in mine...

asshat.

[barbtries]

26. fuck them

they can't tell me what to do. greedy bastards.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

27. What responsible company bonuses bankruptcy, failure, poor decision making

etc.? Or, as my niece would say "Oh no, they dident" (Valley Girl inflection/lisp)

A RESPONSIBLE company would FIRE all those involved. Why the stock holders are not rioting in the streets in front of their headquarters, I will never understand.

[AwakeAtLast]

28. Is that like "Let them eat cake!" ?

:grr:

[Greyhound]

29. The "financial industry" is not the effing economy, you twit! n/t

[HCE SuiGeneris]

30. Time for the Banksters to regale in the disparity, eh?

This comment should create a storming of the Bastille...

[guitar man]

31. I'll agree to tolerate their godamned bonuses

When they agree to tolerate single-payer healthcare and fork over their fair share to help pay for it. Until then, fuck 'em! :grr:

[sabrina 1]

34. Unbelievable. This guy says we should

tolerate this inequality for the common good! Do they really think the people are that stupid, or is HE that stupid that he actually believes his own diatribe? Which would mean he believes they are superior and therefore have to be taken care of before they get around to the starving masses.

It's the equivalent of catching a bank robber about to leave the bank and having him tell you and expect you to believe, that he's doing this, not for the short term benfits to the community at large, that this is a long term project and we need to tolerate the theft for the common good.

Who let this guy loose to try to excuse this theft? And since this is in Britain, are these British subjects getting these bonuses from US tax dollars? I remember that question being asked last year, if foreigners would be given some of this money. And I don't remember getting an answer.

Look at the comment section of that article ~ so many comments have been deleted as people respond to this incredible arrogance.

[suegeo]

36. The common good would benefit if a bird would....

drop a special gift on this blowhard's $7000 suit.

More bird seed, please.

[eppur_se_muova]

37. Two references to guillotines, one to Marie Antoinette --

I think that comment struck a nerve.

And the first thought that popped into my mind when I read the OP was --

overpaid executives must learn to love the sweet whisper of Mme. Guillotuine.

It must be something in the air.

[olegramps]

39. There is a very simple solution to counteract their greed.

Income tax rates of 90% on those making over $500,000 a year.

Confiscate their ill gained accumulated wealth with inheritance taxes.

These are not at all unreasonable. The top rate of 94% was in affect during WWII and was maintained after the war by Truman and Eisenhower to pay off the cost of the war. We are in a similar situation now.

Of course this would require that we elect representatives that have pledged to put these restraints into affect. It could all be done in one election cycle.

What the Founding Fathers feared has come to past. They feared that a aristocracy of the wealthy would replace the aristocracy of birth rights that they rebelled against.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

40. "Tolerate the Inequality" would look great carved on the side of a tumbril.

Or, it could become the new Goldman Sachs Mission Statement. They need to put that on all their stationary, prospectuses, quarterly reports, etc.

[Brigid]

42. Had to look up tumbril on wikipedia.

DUzy over here! DUzy over here! :rofl: :rofl:

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

46. I'm seeing it as a growth industry. Time to get in on the bottom. nt

[Brigid]

41. Un-fucking-believeable!

"One of the City's leading figures has suggested that inequality created by bankers' huge salaries is a price worth paying for greater prosperity."


Prosperity?! What prosperity? I working a frigging nursing home in a crappy little Midwestern town and consider myself luckier than many! Where's my pitchfork and torch? :grr:


Do these idiots realize that they have taken us back to the 1930s, where one of the most popular crimes was -- wait for it -- kidnaping rich people for ransom.

[Nye Bevan]

43. "The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed -- for lack of a better word -- is good."

"Greed is right.

Greed works.

Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

Greed, in all of its forms -- greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind.

And greed -- you mark my words -- will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA".

Thanks Gekko, er, Goldman.

[HughBeaumont]

44. Siiiiiigggghhh

Everyone laughs, but that's pretty much the way it is.

[JVS]

45. Zero Tolerance!