Wall Street Bonuses up 17 % to 20.3 billion / One million could lose jobless benefits in March

[MannyGoldstein]

Two posts I just read here on DU.

Wall Street Bonuses up 17 % to 20.3 billion

One million could lose jobless benefits in March

Pretty well sums it up.

[ck4829]

1. Good eye. The gap continues to grow.

K&R.

[AllentownJake]

2. Every $ in those bonuses was funded with government money

That is the connection most people aren't getting. I do my best to educate them.

The banks are effectively nationalized institutions because they are getting their funding from either the Federal Reserve or the US Treasury.

Those are bonuses for Government employees, remember that.

[MannyGoldstein]

5. It's Amazing - Effectively, $12+ Trillion of Tax Cash Has Been Handed To Bankers

To continue gambling with - and zero new rules to prevent the same outcome.

Astonishing.

[Loge23]

3. Storm Wall Street Day

Only when those of us who are negatively impacted by these crimes shut this f&#%ing money trough down can we ever expect any significant change.
If only we could storm WS en masse, nonviolently (as in we don't drag them out of their offices and plummel them in the streets), then maybe - just maybe - they would get the message. Unfortunately, their actions will probably eventually result in a smaller, violent, response if this keeps up.
After all, there's a lot of umemployed, angry people out there.
The WS crowd is really sticking this in people's faces right now.

[blindpig]

4. k&r