You Betcha! Bonuses.....
By Louise
Goldman Sachs may reduce CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s bonus because of the uproar over the reported $100 million he is set to get, according to a Wall Street consultant says. Meanwhile, the compensation of the CEO of the world's largest bank - much bigger than Blankfein's Goldman Sachs - was a total of just $263,000 last year. Period. Why? Because it's the Commerce and Industry Bank of China, a country where the banks are tightly regulated utilities whose job is to handle and protect people's money and make loans available to consumers and businesses. Before Reagan, it was pretty much that way here in the US, too, but when he stopped enforcing the Sherman Act, allowing huge banking mega-mergers, and Republicans and Clinton blew up banks basic functions in 1999 and 2000 turning them into casinos, things rather changed here. Blankfein's purported $100 million bonus would be a shocking, pornographic embarrassment in Sweden or Norway or Denmark - countries that are far from Communist Dictatorships like China. Good banking practices, it seems, are just good banking practices. And we should re-adopt them here and put an end to the looting of America by the banksters.
In Strange News....Sarah Palin is calling on President Obama to fire his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel for using the phrase “f—ing retarded” in a meeting with liberal allies. Writing on Facebook, Palin said, “Rahm’s slur on all God’s children with cognitive and developmental disabilities – and the people who love them – is unacceptable, and it’s heartbreaking.” Ah so - Sarah Palin has become a liberal proponent of the rights of the disabled? No, not really. Just a cheap political shot.
Thom's Blog Is On the Move
By webmaster
Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
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Mueller's favorite place to pray (written about in "Prophet's Way"), and the roof of the room where the Last Supper is reputed to have happened.
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"In an age rife with media-inspired confusion and political cowardice, we yearn for a decent, caring, deeply human soul whose grasp of the problems confronting us provides a light by which we can make our way through the quagmire of lies, distortions, pandering, and hollow self-puffery that strips the American Dream of its promise. How lucky we are, then, to have access to the wit, wisdom, and willingness of Thom Hartmann, who shares with us here that very light, grown out of his own life experience."
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
"If you wonder why and when giant corporations got the power to reign supreme over us, here’s the story."
From Cracking the Code:
"Thom Hartmann ought to be bronzed. His new book sets off from the same high plane as the last and offers explicit tools and how-to advice that will allow you to see, hear, and feel propaganda when it's directed at you and use the same techniques to refute it. His book would make a deaf-mute a better communicator. I want him on my reading table every day, and if you try one of his books, so will you."
I need to get my grubby hands on the study that says that incomes catch up to tax increases on wage earners in 1 to 3 years. Thom has mentioned it several times, and last time used Denmark as an example. It also appears here:
http://www.thomhartmann.com/2009/07/21/the-great-tax-con-job/
"Over time (typically one to three years) his wages will rise enough to compensate for the lost income."
I need the academic support for that statement. Thank you very much. Link or Bibliographic information will do.