There is no longer a place that government tentacles cannot reach. Obama is a perfect squid. Goodnight.
On Mar 21, 3:24�am, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- 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. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
