That is a real problem with this current crop in DC. As soon as you find a good place they will pass some more regs that will ruin that location. Need to find some place they can't reach. Between their taxing and their regulating and their taking from here to give it to some low-life there I don't really even want them to know I have it. Unfortunately that is not really in the cards.
rigsy03 wrote: > The real problem is: where do we trust our money to reside? > > On Mar 21, 3:03�am, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Have to admit that I am retired from one of the biggest banks (was not >> involved in any of the sections that had problems. �I always made money >> for them). �I know exactly what you mean. �The heads of the major banks >> just ran wild once the reins were loosened. �Between having to make the >> redlined loans or else and being able to shift the load off on someone >> else they just minted money and got huge salaries. �And it was pretty >> much divvied up among the top staff. �I still remember the year we were >> told we could not have raises or bonuses because of the business of the >> bank and yet the CEO got paid enough that year so that every single >> employee worldwide would have been given $1500 with what he made. �I >> told my boss that I needed to see a raise and a bonus or I would take >> the job offered me by the opposition. �Since I was leader of 3 projects, >> all of which were vital to that section making money, I got both a raise >> and a bonus. �The following year I retired. �Glad now that I did. >> >> The problem I see with this whole thing of blaming the banks as a whole >> is that there are huge divisions in the major banks. �Most of them have >> absolutely nothing to do with the problem areas �and really the way the >> banks are organized could not have anything to do with the problem >> areas. �Yet the way the stories are worded these people are tarred with >> the same brush as the ones who do bear responsibility for the debacle. � >> Makes me worry about the great guys who worked for me back then. �They >> deserve much better than they are going to get out of this mess. �I just >> hope they can keep their jobs. >> >> >> >> rigsy03 wrote: >> >>> I don't believe my bank either as my daughter worked in its department >>> that bundled this fraud. Then she was offered a job by a giant >>> accounting firm that subsequently tanked. Happily she she got her M.A. >>> in education and now teaches literature. The poets are solace. >>> >>> On Mar 21, 2:31 am, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/template/utils/elt/elt.jsp?source=news_210...- >>>> Hide quoted text - >>>> >> - Show quoted text - >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
