Comments for Um, excuse me? You took my tax dollars for a bailout...

Um, excuse me? You took my tax dollars for a bailout...

2008-12-19T17:28:36Z

...and you're paying bonuses? Bonuses? As in, extra pay for doing well? For exceeding expectations? For, erm, *making* money?

Reeeely? So says the Daily Mail.

Goldman Sachs is on course to pay its top City bankers multimillion-pound bonuses - despite asking the U.S. government for an emergency bail-out.

The struggling Wall Street bank has set aside £7billion for salaries and 2008 year-end bonuses, it emerged yesterday.
Each of the firm's 443 partners is on course to pocket an average Christmas bonus of more than £3million.

The size of the pay pool comfortably dwarfs the £6.1billion lifeline which the U.S. government is throwing to Goldman

Apparently I'm unclear on the concept of bonuses.

Um, and didn't all y'all like promise you wouldn't do that? Strikes me the bonus money, if it's available, should be used to pay back that loan there, buddy!

Heh. And the bankers won't understand why *they're* standing in front of the wall, the day the revolution comes. Dolts. Aren't even clever enough to hide behind obfuscatory language. They really do hold us cretins in contempt.

BTW, for as long as it lasts, anyway - check out the end of that tag for the Daily Mail's article. Seems someone doesn't like *anybody*

Comment from John of Argghhhh! on 2008-12-20

2008-12-20T13:39:51Z

I learned something today. The original source for this was a leftish economics blog - who also remarked on it. I will now keep an eye out for what follows the # sign when URLs find their way to me.

And will now go do a little editing, too, since that portion is not needed for the URL to work.

Comment from Argent on 2008-12-20

2008-12-20T10:42:06Z

Josh has it. It's probably been added by someone along the line to your source.

Comment from Josh on 2008-12-19

2008-12-20T05:44:57Z

As hilarious as that would be, that's not actually part of the URL...the actual URL ends right before the "#'. You can add "#" and anything after that to the URL and it will still work the same.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2008-12-19

2008-12-20T03:19:51Z

Heh. Ry, I took it as a slam against both of 'em, but I can see what you apparently saw, too, now that you mentioned it.

It's been over two days, Pogue - I'm guessing the editors of the Mail know about it by now.

Comment from Pogue on 2008-12-19

2008-12-20T03:15:50Z

Oh yes, I saw it, but apparently either no one at the Daily Mail has, or maybe that's their editorial policy.

Comment from ry on 2008-12-19

2008-12-20T03:08:48Z

That's just wrong. I cannot even repeat what they put at the end of the URL here or I'll get the Hairy Eyeball(better than the Hairy armpit, but...). Rather odd that they'd put something so obviously pro-Obama as that.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2008-12-19

2008-12-20T02:08:40Z

Snerk! Has *anyone* taken the hint and looked at the tail end of the Daily Mail url?

Comment from Argent on 2008-12-19

2008-12-20T01:59:07Z

But we are poor long suffering bankers. You don't understand how hard it is to make end's meet. All day I slave in my office. We gave generous loans to those awful dirty poor things and what's out thanks? Those dreadful government people are making us fawn and beg for every billion. Heartless I tell you.

We've had to cut back to the bone at home you know. Now it's only essentials; cavier for breakfast and a diamand tiara for the daughter's pre-Christmas present. We even lost one of our butlers and I had to open the champagne myself. I took me 4 hours and now my hands are ruined. I look like one of those common work people but fortunately it's nothing silk gloves won't fix

The butler said he decided to become a banker!

Can't understand why.

Comment from Grumpy on 2008-12-19

2008-12-19T18:45:04Z

Uh-oh, I hear the fan running. Where's the fan? On no, it's a ceiling fan and it's going to hit it! You know what that means, it's going everywhere.