Greedy Bankers Paying Themselves Huge Bonuses. They Still Don’t Get It.

October 16, 2009 by Infowars Ireland

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R.F. Wilson writes: In case you’ve missed the big news from the financial world, the investment bank Goldman Sachs is planning to pay its employees in Britain bonuses totalling £14 billion, the biggest ever pay-outs in its 140-year history. On average these hard working people would get around £500,000 each, with the top directors standing to be awarded many millions.

Other banks in the City are expected to follow suit and pay themselves some serious bonuses as well. The only difference now is that the bulk of the bonuses will be paid in shares. But make no mistake, this is not much different from getting cash, as there are many ways that you can use your shares to raise capital very quickly.

So what does it tell us about the money men? Well, the saddest thing of all is that they took all of us for a ride, used our money to get out of the mess that they themselves had created in the first place and are now rewarding themselves while everyone else is struggling to cope with the recession. The Great Swindle of this century is still going strong. The middle men, who create absolutely nothing and gamble with other people’s money, are on a roll. And the British government is playing up to them and pretending that it can do absolutely nothing to force the greedy bankers stop paying themselves huge bonuses. It is all about the free market you see: free to be abused by the arrogant money men but never actually that free when it comes to protecting the interests of the ever suffering taxpayers.

Now I have several questions to ask, being a cynical man: how could it happen that despite the so-called ‘pressure’ from the British government, and personally from the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, the money boys still do whatever they want? Should they not be rewarding the taxpayers with hefty bonuses for saving their miserable skins? How come that when it was doom and gloom in the banking world that everyone had to chip in to keep the banks afloat, but once they got out of the mess, leaving the rest of the economy in tatters, by the way, they are celebrating all by themselves? Read full article…