Reply #37: do you actually DO business with any of these companies?

[northzax]

can you afford to do business with most of them? let's take a look, shall we?

1 Citigroup Inc $322,460. sure, you can have a Citi credit card, or travelers insurance.
2 Goldman Sachs $279,640. Do much investment banking, do you?
3 Time Warner $222,290 don't buy People. easy enough.
4 JP Morgan Chase & Co $174,075. ditto Goldman, Sachs.
5 Metropolitan Life $167,600. cancel your life insurance.
6 Credit Suisse Group $163,150/ ditto Goldman, Chase/
7 Skadden, Arps et al $162,680. Hire a lot of $350/hour attorneys, do you? perhaps been supoenad by congress?
8 Corning Inc $156,250. surely they make some consumer products, right? maybe some pyrex pans?
9 Morgan Stanley $148,960. See 2,4,6.
10 Cablevision Systems $141,650. Comcast, baby, that way your money goes to Republicans.
11 Viacom Inc $139,435. no more MTV or CSI, I guess. What about 60 minutes, is that still ok?
12 International Profit Assoc $129,400. I have no clue who these people are.
13 Ernst & Young $128,700. Need an auditor for your Fortune 500 Company? no?
14 Kirkland & Ellis $119,850. these lawyers are cheap at only $300/hour.
15 Kushner Companies $119,000. no clue.
16 New York Life Insurance $110,250. cancel that whole life policy, ma!
17 Walt Disney Co $105,965. phew, I can still watch soccer on Fox Soccer...
18 Patton Boggs $101,638. now the lawyers are up to $400/hour.
19 Sullivan & Cromwell $94,350. launching an IPO, or a merger? you need Sullivan's lawyers. good news is they are flat fee/percentage, not hourly, might be cheaper.
20 News Corp $94,125. shit, guess there is no soccer this weekend. thankfully I still have Univision (wait, GE donates to republicans. what should I do?)