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Tue Oct-18-11 05:52 PM
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| 12. They still have a plan... |
| - The bonfire of the bankers has only just begun: 40% of City and Wall Street jobs could go |
dkf |
Oct-18-11 05:23 PM |
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I'm heartbroken for the poor souls who are going to lose their cushy jobs . . . |
MrModerate |
Oct-18-11 05:28 PM |
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Think how much tax revenue NY city will lose |
hack89 |
Oct-18-11 05:51 PM |
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Or 'lose'. |
louis-t |
Oct-18-11 05:52 PM |
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That too. nt |
hack89 |
Oct-18-11 05:54 PM |
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Giggety. |
louis-t |
Oct-18-11 05:55 PM |
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Sorry; saving multi-millionaires' jobs is a poor excuse of a threat. |
WinkyDink |
Oct-18-11 07:38 PM |
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It is not a threat, just simple math |
hack89 |
Oct-18-11 08:40 PM |
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Quite true. But strained budgets in NYC as a result of a wrecked world economy . . . |
MrModerate |
Oct-19-11 01:56 AM |
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Can we shed a tear for the guy who sells or fixes his Lexus? |
hack89 |
Oct-19-11 09:57 AM |
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Sadly, the examples you cite are only part of the collateral damage . . . |
MrModerate |
Oct-19-11 05:25 PM |
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They still have a plan... |
Speck Tater |
Oct-18-11 05:52 PM |
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"areas like wealth management" Is their only hope.... |
Bonhomme Richard |
Oct-18-11 05:28 PM |
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They'll all be Bernie Madoffs, stealing from the 1% to maintain their lifestyles. |
Ikonoklast |
Oct-18-11 06:34 PM |
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The two pillars of the UK economy are financial services and North Sea oil |
FarCenter |
Oct-18-11 05:32 PM |
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They can draw unemployment comp like everyone else n/t |
leftstreet |
Oct-18-11 05:35 PM |
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One wonders who will be left with a job to pay the taxes. |
dkf |
Oct-18-11 05:39 PM |
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Military contractors seem to be doing well. They can pay n/t |
leftstreet |
Oct-18-11 05:42 PM |
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Then they need to overturn the trigger. |
dkf |
Oct-18-11 05:48 PM |
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no jobs + no taxes = NO Government. |
glinda |
Oct-18-11 05:43 PM |
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Banksters and traders standing in umenployment lines! |
Brigid |
Oct-18-11 05:46 PM |
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This could be a financial disaster for NY city |
hack89 |
Oct-18-11 05:47 PM |
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A lot of cities have been devastated by job losses |
leftstreet |
Oct-18-11 05:54 PM |
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But few cities have a city income tax |
hack89 |
Oct-18-11 05:55 PM |
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Those high paying jobs drive up the cost of everything.. |
girl gone mad |
Oct-18-11 06:03 PM |
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So public employee salaries will go down now? |
hack89 |
Oct-18-11 06:05 PM |
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NYC should never have become so dependent on Wall Street's coffers. |
girl gone mad |
Oct-18-11 06:14 PM |
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So the bankers should keep more of their money? |
hack89 |
Oct-18-11 06:21 PM |
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Everyone should keep more of their money right now.. |
girl gone mad |
Oct-18-11 07:31 PM |
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You oppose Social Security, Girl Gone Mad? |
JDPriestly |
Oct-21-11 04:00 PM |
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What are the productive sectors in New York City? |
FarCenter |
Oct-18-11 06:05 PM |
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.. |
HowHasItComeToThis |
Oct-18-11 06:08 PM |
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For each banker job that goes away, there is one or more lower scale jobs that also go |
FarCenter |
Oct-18-11 06:03 PM |
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Good luck to any OWSer in NYC who is looking for a job. |
dkf |
Oct-18-11 06:31 PM |
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The "Thank Goodness There Are Millionaires Who Give Jobs to Yacht-Builders" argument. |
WinkyDink |
Oct-18-11 07:39 PM |
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You mean like what happened in Detroit? |
JDPriestly |
Oct-21-11 04:01 PM |
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How many ways can you find to say this? It is a disingenuous argument. |
WinkyDink |
Oct-18-11 07:41 PM |
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Welcome to Main Street, USA. 'Bout time the robber bankers of New York |
JDPriestly |
Oct-21-11 03:59 PM |
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Those aren't real jobs. |
LiberalFighter |
Oct-18-11 06:01 PM |
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TRUE. |
avaistheone1 |
Oct-18-11 06:04 PM |
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But the income tax revenue they provide to the city is real |
hack89 |
Oct-18-11 06:07 PM |
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NONE of whom you list can afford to LIVE in Manhattan. Get real with your sympathy. |
WinkyDink |
Oct-18-11 07:40 PM |
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Maybe not Manhattan, but Queens and Brooklyn are part of the City too. - nt |
badtoworse |
Oct-19-11 08:15 AM |
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How many boroughs does NY city have? nt |
hack89 |
Oct-19-11 02:05 PM |
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Five |
badtoworse |
Oct-19-11 05:35 PM |
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I know - rhetorical question. nt |
hack89 |
Oct-19-11 07:57 PM |
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That is very New-York-centric. |
JDPriestly |
Oct-19-11 01:06 AM |
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If "tax the wealthy" is a real solution to our fiscal problems |
hack89 |
Oct-19-11 05:19 AM |
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If the wealth were more fairly apportioned in our population, |
JDPriestly |
Oct-20-11 02:41 AM |
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People like Warren Buffet and John McCain have wealth not necessarily high income |
hack89 |
Oct-20-11 09:55 AM |
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If we raised the tax on capital gains and on money that is inherited, |
JDPriestly |
Oct-20-11 10:09 PM |
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People would simply invest in things that do not produce capital gains. |
hack89 |
Oct-21-11 09:36 AM |
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Maybe municipal bonds should be taxed. |
JDPriestly |
Oct-21-11 03:27 PM |
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Which shifts the burden back to taxpayers |
hack89 |
Oct-21-11 03:36 PM |
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Death and taxes -- the two inevitables in life. |
JDPriestly |
Oct-21-11 03:55 PM |
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"This is because of the tougher regulatory environment." |
KamaAina |
Oct-18-11 06:09 PM |
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I noticed that too |
wickerwoman |
Oct-19-11 01:13 AM |
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Well, |
ProSense |
Oct-18-11 06:17 PM |
#28 |
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Job-sharing would be the best way to deal with unemployment |
JDPriestly |
Oct-19-11 01:04 AM |
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40% of Wall Street workers would be available to do productive work. |
JDPriestly |
Oct-21-11 04:08 PM |
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I'm sure they all have very significant savings. |
WinkyDink |
Oct-18-11 07:37 PM |
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What did banks do after Harding/Coolidge and before Reagan? |
Dawson Leery |
Oct-18-11 07:39 PM |
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They went broke until the Roosevelt administration imposed reasonable rules |
JDPriestly |
Oct-21-11 04:11 PM |
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Interesting defenses of multi-millionaire bankers on this thread. |
WinkyDink |
Oct-18-11 07:42 PM |
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happened in 1989 |
flamingdem |
Oct-18-11 07:43 PM |
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Fucking bleeding heart Wallstreet casino operators. |
L0oniX |
Oct-18-11 08:47 PM |
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So short-sighted pursuit of power and money |
PETRUS |
Oct-19-11 01:14 AM |
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expropriate already! hostage-taking parasites have got to go; they overstayed their welcome |
inna |
Oct-19-11 01:14 AM |
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I work in finance and as far as I can tell.... |
Sen. Walter Sobchak |
Oct-19-11 01:43 AM |
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Interesting observation |
badtoworse |
Oct-19-11 08:27 AM |
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Yay! Because everyone who works for a bank |
B2G |
Oct-19-11 02:57 PM |
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For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. Hosea 8:7 |
workinclasszero |
Oct-19-11 08:26 PM |
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Fuck em. I didn't see them crying for everyone else. |
JVS |
Oct-20-11 02:44 AM |
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Excellent, when the rich "masters of the universe" start losing their |
Vidar |
Oct-20-11 02:53 AM |
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Maybe they can try to get real jobs that help the economy instead of being leaches on the economy. |
Prometheus Bound |
Oct-20-11 02:57 AM |
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as it should be.. the financial sector is outsized and bloated= no more CDS bonanzas |
BREMPRO |
Oct-20-11 10:06 AM |
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Let's pass out bootstraps all around |
Tsiyu |
Oct-21-11 04:29 AM |
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So now |
JustAnotherGen |
Oct-21-11 05:08 AM |
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Turning on the errand boys. I love it ! |
RagAss |
Oct-21-11 03:56 PM |
#73 |
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