e regressando á bancalheira...

In Dragoscópio:
"Feed our Frankenstein
«Goldman Sachs is on course to pay its top City bankers multimillion-pound bonuses - despite asking the U.S. government for an emergency bail-out.The struggling Wall Street bank has set aside £7billion for salaries and 2008 year-end bonuses, it emerged yesterday.
Each of the firm's 443 partners is on course to pocket an average Christmas bonus of more than £3million.The size of the pay pool comfortably dwarfs the £6.1billion lifeline which the U.S. government is throwing to Goldman as part of its £430billion bail-out.As Washington pours money into the bank, the cash will immediately be channelled to Goldman's already well-heeled employees. »
Em resumo, dos 430 biliões de dinheiro dos otários (vulgo contribuintes) que a plutocracia americana despejou nos bancos, os 6.1 biliões que couberam à Goldman Sachs nem vão chegar para pagar os prémios anuais e bónus de Natal que aquela associação benemérita vai distribuir pelos seus insaciáveis gestores. Ou melhor dizendo, que eles, como já é tradição, vão distribuir entre si.
E ainda há esquerdalhos visionários que se queixam da falta de distributividade da economia capitalista!...
Sim, porque se julgam que é só o Goldman Sachs, o melhor é mesmo irem tirando o cavalinho da chuva:
«Royal Bank of Scotland, which is being bailed out with £20bn of taxpayers' money, has signalled it is preparing to pay bonuses to thousands of staff despite government pledges to crack down on City pay.The bank has set aside £1.79bn to cover "staff costs" - including discretionary bonuses - at its investment banking division for the first six months of the year alone. The same division caused a £5.9bn writedown that wiped out the bank's profits for the same period. »
E a cereja no topo do bolo:
«Several US politicians have seized on an investigation by the Guardian last month which showed six Wall Street banks - Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers - had set aside $70bn (£42.5bn) in pay and bonuses for the first nine months of the year. »
Publicada por dragão em 11/01/2008 02:50:00 PM

Gostava de perceber a relação perversa entre a democracia liberal, o controlo dos media pelo grande capital e o entorpecimento público que continua a permitir este tipo de bancalheira!...