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   iamthelorax said, about 1 month ago

   Well, if there was a link between the two images, I’d love to hear it. Otherwise, this just looks like demonizing of businesses.

   It doesn’t matter what kind of bonuses and salaries they get or give, what matters is that the government stops giving them the money to do it.

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   dtroutma said, about 1 month ago

   Halliburton- Blackwater(Xi)- and K street- there is your link.

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   slavetofashion69 said, about 1 month ago

   Of course it doesn’t matter how much money they get or give. I -love- it when my company management makes me live on starvation wages so my CEO can get a 0.02 increase on his preferred shares.

   Not sharing your profits with the people who help you make it stratifies the economic class divisions and further erodes the middle class, pushing a few people up to the top, but most back down to the bottom.

   The government has no business shovelling cash at the private sector. That’s true. But the private sector will always require it. It always has and it always will. It’s a fat sow in front of a trough of money that will never be satiated. It steals from its customers by increasing the cost for goods or services that are of poorer and poorer quality or smaller and smaller amounts. It steals from its employees by demanding more work every year for less pay. It takes their physical and mental health from them and gives them next to nothing in return. It has stolen from the government and public in general for hundreds of years by externalizing all the negative effects of it’s operations.

   Capitalism sucks, period. There has to be a better way. And we need to take responsibility for coming up with it. All of us. Or it will just be more of the same.

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   mark.dillon said, about 1 month ago

   You are all jerks! Failure to see the crimes in this scenario only guarantees the dumbing down of this country is more widespread than anyne can imagine.

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   believecommonsense said, about 1 month ago

   back to 1st post, there’s a succinct link between the two figures, I think. It’s depicting the disparity between how some are serving their country.

   The service of those in the military at the behest of our country is obvious. The Goldman Sachs figure representing the top rung of the financial sector isn’t serving the country. I don’t think it’s demonizing business, either. It’s correctly expressing the attitude of those folks who led their firms to bankruptcy (along with taking the savings of many others) and received taxpayer money just to be able to open their doors. Rather than displaying a sense of humility at their own failings and that of Wall St., and gratitude for being rescued by their country, they are resorting to business as usual even as the economy continues to falter.

   It’s an elegantly expressed commentary.

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   ahab said, about 1 month ago

   Patriotic burden versus the burden of greed. One is America at it’s best, the other,well….

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   comYics said, about 1 month ago

   Oh, let me help you carry that. Perhaps I owe myself a bonus for helping, and returning it to taxpayer pockets.

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   NeoconMan said, 29 days ago

   ahab, and the other is America at its more best. It is self-serving capitalism that has made America the economic powerhouse that it is, we who take the risks, make the profits, and allow some of our riches to trickle down to the peons. And if we lose a little cannon-fodder soldiers in the process, that’s hardly important to the big picture.