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Islandlife

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6. A parallel to our free spending congress?

Reply to wordpix (Original post)

Fri Dec 30, 2011, 04:04 PM

Dec 2011

Whose money is it anyway? Not mine I guess.

Congress gets money through taxes. I pay taxes.

Banks get money.....from congress? In some ways true.

Who else gets money(my money) from congress? Some people and projects I don't approve.

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Bank CEOs Earn Big Bucks Even as Stocks Get Slammed [View all] wordpix Dec 2011 OP

Can you add the link? Ruby the Liberal Dec 2011 #1

looks to be this: JHB Dec 2011 #3

Thanks! Ruby the Liberal Dec 2011 #5

Also made big bucks while laying off workers abelenkpe Dec 2011 #2

Exactly Charlemagne Dec 2011 #12

They're worth ever penny. sulphurdunn Dec 2011 #4

A parallel to our free spending congress? Islandlife Dec 2011 #6

Leave Jamie Dimon aloooooone! gratuitous Dec 2011 #7

People. People who hate people. Are the greediest people. In the world. valerief Dec 2011 #8

Here's partly why this happens Beavker Dec 2011 #9

The central bankster families running the City of London Company that owns the world come from the phasma ex machina Dec 2011 #10

Yes, and it's all for short term profits. dotymed Dec 2011 #18

But they earned it Charlemagne Dec 2011 #11

Obscene. No words. Speechless. n/t BeHereNow Dec 2011 #13

The bonus is for getting U.S. tax payers to pay the bank for the bank screwing them. Takes skill. DirkGently Dec 2011 #14

Yep. Knowing who to bribe and when, and how much takes skill. Amonester Dec 2011 #17

42 million, doesn't that guy live in Manhattan not far from Occupy. sarcasmo Dec 2011 #15

""These companies simply have no credibility." Wow, ain't that the truth wordpix Dec 2011 #16