{"id":190071,"date":"2010-01-10T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/10\/not-enough-bullets-79\/"},"modified":"2010-01-10T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T19:46:00","slug":"not-enough-bullets-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/10\/not-enough-bullets-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Enough Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 216px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img196.imageshack.us\/img196\/20\/thompsonred.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"206\" \/> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we&#8217;ll be lucky to live through it. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>Cue Freddie Dalton Thompson from <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Hunt for Red October<\/span>The <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New York Times<\/span> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/10\/business\/10pay.html\">banker compensation in these tough times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Bank executives are grappling with a question that exasperates, even infuriates, many recession-weary Americans: Just how big should their paydays be? Despite calls for restraint from Washington and a chafed public, resurgent banks are preparing to pay out bonuses that rival those of the boom years. The haul, in cash and stock, will run into many billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Industry executives acknowledge that the numbers being tossed around \u2014 six-, seven- and even eight-figure sums for some chief executives and top producers \u2014 will probably stun the many Americans still hurting from the financial collapse and ensuing Great Recession.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to get out of control, as in some tea-bagging nut with a gun out of control, and I know that I won&#8217;t be sitting on the jury, because I could not bring myself to vote to convict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we&#8217;ll be lucky to live through it. Cue Freddie Dalton Thompson from The Hunt for Red OctoberThe New York Times on banker compensation in these tough times: Bank executives are grappling with a question that exasperates, even infuriates, many recession-weary Americans: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,975,969,1004],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-employment","category-evil","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}