I’m still fighting for air, but I am up to date on comments and and have some good items today.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 3:21 (3:52 average). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From NY Times: Lloyd C. Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, had a rough 2010. But at least he got a raise: his bonus increased by $3.6 million, according to a regulatory filing.
The firm’s board granted restricted stock valued at $12.6 million to Mr. Blankfein.
That’s quite a reward for all the misery he caused the American people with Republican support.
From Washington Independent: Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) proposed this week $400 billion in “real and necessary” budget cuts in federal spending to avoid raising the budget ceiling from $14.3 trillion. The cuts include capping increases in Department of Veterans Affairs’ health care spending and reducing Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) payments for veterans, all to save a total of $4.5 billion.
Batshit B is showing what Republicans mean by “Support Our Troops”. Use them up as cannon fodder. Then dump them.
From News Hounds: Predictably, Fox News’ fear and loathing of Muslims was front and center in their coverage of the Egypt demonstrations (more on that in a later post). But Sean Hannity took partisanship to new heights – or depths – when he “asked” if there wasn’t a connection between the uprising and Democrats being in power in the U.S.A. Not that he was able to make any real connection – you know the kind he and his colleagues demanded when they attacked those who suggested there might be a link between right-wing violent rhetoric and the Tucson massacre.
I told you they would blame the left.
Cartoon:
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4:10 Wow, I didn’t even beat the average. 🙁 7 out of 29
Bad day, huh?
Just $3.6 million? That’s peanuts. A hedge fund manager set a record last year making $159 per second – NOT a typo … that’s PER SECOND!
Source:
http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/28/news/companies/paulson_hedge_fund/index.htm
And of course as a gift to those needy hedge fund managers, a sizeable chunk of that $5,000,000,000.00 will be taxed at the forgiving capital gains rate of 15% – rather than the regular 35% the rest of us would have to pay.
Nameless, I make Blankfein an example, because I know at least some of his crimes. Those of the hedge fund manager are still secret.
Hedge fund managers should be taxed at the normal rate.
And he made that 5 BILLION dollars making….oh wait!…He didn’t MAKE anything. He just moved money around…are raked 5 BILLION dollars off the top. And we gave him a tax break for doing it. He paid less than half what you or I would have paid if we made 5 BILLION dollars at our day job.
That’s republican economics for you!
That’s why “trickle down” always gushes up.