$20 billion for Wall Street bonuses

[nebris]

From America Blog
by Chris in Paris on 2/24/2010 08:35:00 AM

That's a lot of quality health care for a lot of Americans right there. After all, most of the profits generate by Wall Street were from taxpayer money. There is a serious problem with priorities among the political class of America. They're every bit as guilty as Wall Street. If this

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[sophiaserpentia]

Bonuses for the bailed-out rich, austerity for the poor. Think we'll ever see a general strike in the US like they're staging in Greece right now? It seems like such a remote possibility, but with 20% of the population already at a point where they have little or nothing to lose...

[underlankers]

The general strike is more because the Greeks have erected a Western-style welfare state, want it but not to pay for it, and hence are being asked to actually pay for it and throwing a bitch-fit about it. Sounds familiar, right?

[underlankers]

So what, if anything, have they done to deserve this? Bueller?

[mushroom104]

Yet, I lived on a 40% pay cut for an entire year and now find myself unemployed with reduced unemployment benefits because of it. I have a 4 year college degree too. What makes them so special? I feel like robbing a bank right about now.