The Tacoma News Tribune has an editorial objecting to bonuses for General Services Administration managers. I have nothing in the editorial qua the editorial to object to (OK, it starts off with an unnecessary metaphor implying that GSA managers are the same as dogs, but the thrust of the piece is fine). GSA fucked up and the pressure should stay on on them. This is the sort of public good that we expect newspapers to push, and to push hard.
But I don’t remember the Trib lamenting the managers at big banks getting bonuses. I did a few searches. Maybe I missed something. You can argue private versus public, that we should care more about a government agency like the GSA. But given the big banks central role in society (I’d say I interact with banks a lot more than with the GSA) surely they ought to be held accountable in some way. And of course one main reason they stayed afloat during the crisis and have done well since is the massive amount of freeish money taxpayers are giving them. Surely those bonuses to people who fucked things up are worse use of taxpayer money than bonuses to the GSA.
But fine, maybe that’s not a direct waste of taxpayer money if you buy what the banks are saying. Still there was a scandal about missing money in Iraq a few years ago and it pops up every now and again that kind of makes the GSA story seem teeny tiny itty bitty. The Trib’s Ed Board editorialized against it too. But this is the only one that I could find. After the 3rd inspector general’s report, they finally did one piece on it. It seems like any waste of money by a government agency cranks out similar outrage.
Carl,
You must be discussing Jamie Dimon, friend of Obummer.
Always use leftist material whenever possible.
@1,
Diamon isn’t sure who he’s going to vote for this time and he considers himself “barely a Democrat.” I think Obama should have gone a lot further, but even this mild criticism while giving the industry tons and tons of money has made Diamon have a sad.
But Carl… facts are facts…
Always use leftist material whenever possible.
I’ll bet the average banker lives a lot better than the average GSA employee. And despite a minor GSA scandal now and then, I’d still rather do business with GSA than a bank.
Or maybe you were discussing Jon Corzine?
Maybe Carl was discussing these hedge fund friends of Obummer
Or maybe Carl was discussing hedge fund pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Obummer bundler…
@3,
It sure is awful how the financial services industry loves Obama.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pre.....p?sector=F
This is boring. I’m literally typing in my sleep here, this is so easy to refute.
Carl,
Refute? FACT! 2008 Wall street accounted for about 20 percent of Obummers top fundraisers collected during 2008.
Obummer chased his benefactors away. As you can see a few hung on.
And Speaking of the Pritzkers, Obummer friends
Typical puddy guilt-by-association, straight out of the 1948 GOP playbook. These guys haven’t had an original idea since 1900.
Guilt by association? No that’s Anthony “Van” Jones and his Saul Alinsky tactics. Yes Obummer and his guilty Wall Street buds and also his trial lawyer buds.
While we are at it, let’s see if Romney gets close this year to these two Obummer totals.
And while we’re at it… Obummer’s Vestar Venture Capital Vampire buds
Saul Alinsky!! Solyndra! Fast ‘n Furious!!! Kenya!! Uppity Nigger! Jeremiah Wright!! Choom Ganggggggg!!1!!11!!
puddy’s got nuthin’. Again.
@13
ya, as if the the chants by the left during the Bush era were any different…
@14
Hmmmm…..
No Iraq war!!!
Stop lying to the country!!!
No tax cuts for the rich!!!
No stolen elections!!!
Where’s bin Laden?!!
Katrina!!!
NO warrantless wiretapping!!!
No Guantanamo Bay incarcerations!!!
Stop firing US Attorneys for political reasons!!!
Release Cheney Energy Task Force documents!!!
Address Global Warming!!!
Stop blocking stem cell research!!!
No Medicare part D giveaway to PHARMA!!!
Harriet Miers??!!!!
Jeff Gannon????!!!
Start acknowledging fallen soldiers!!!
Stop the disgrace of underfunded VA facilities!!!
Don’t let ENRON fleece California!!!
And that’s just a taste of leftist outrage over psychopathic manchild George W Bush.
So, not like the Teahaddist fever dreams at all.
Yeah right Lib da schmuck!
Facts, something devoid in Lib da schmuck!
Lib da schmuck
Obummer’s words ya idiot.
Obummer on Jeremiah Wright
Obummer’s words ya idiot
Solyndra
Obummer’s actions ya idiot
Fast ‘n Furious
His favrit attorney general!
Shall I continue Lib da schmuck? You are batting .000 like always.