Cut off nose -- spite face. You're not kidding!

A bitter pill, indeed.

N.Y.: Wall Street bonuses surge to $20.3 billion
Industry paid 17 percent more in Â09; official calls bonuses a Âbitter pillÂ

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35536780/

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" "But for most Americans, these huge bonuses are a bitter pill and hard to comprehend. ... Taxpayers bailed them out, and now they're back making money while many New York families are still struggling to make ends meet."

The reason for the surge in bonuses was simple: Wall Street firms had a great year. "

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"Critics of Wall Street pay said the fact that bonuses are rising even as consumers grow more despondent reflects a growing class divide in the wake of the recession.

"It's exposing a deep rift in American society," said Chuck Collins, a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal Washington think tank. "This isn't the rising tide lifting all boats. This is the rising tide lifting a few yachts, while other people's boats sink further underwater." "

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That old GW Bush Swagger, sans the cowboy boots; (what was that brand of shoe that OJ wore to the massacree?)

I believe that the noted earlier example was, Let them eat cake..
(Though it seems that Marie never really said it, like so much else we 'know'.)

Only question is -- how many similar examples of the systematic wealth transfer from the least-able to pay --> to the least-in-need of any MORE -- will produce that tipping-point? which we always see clearly when reading of previous mobs-in-streets. One would think that those whose spreadsheet-foo occupies all waking hours, would have a personal one with a [ cell ] labelled

[ Nothing-left-to-Lose ] with a flag set to go off when its contents increments to:
{ (n+1) = Sufficient Rage to Act ]

One would think.

In '29, it seems that a few bankers did indeed leap out of windows -- 'shame'? still existed then.
(though again, not nearly as many as the myth)

In '12? '13? -- may we wonder how many shall be assisted-out?
Might we wonder how many of Mr. McCain's 16? 17? mansions shall remain untorched, as matters escalate?
What I think is: Murica ... it isn't Too Big to Fail

But previously I hadn't thought I'd still be around to see the spectacle!

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