Saturday, February 14, 2009

Special thanks

Kudos to Lloyd Blankfein, president and CEO of Goldman Sachs for earning 54 million dollars for leading his company into financial ruin.This compensation comes from the taxpayer bailout.Assuming that our boy Lloyd works a normal 40 hour work week, that breaks down to an hourly rate of $25,961.54.To put this into perspective,in 30 minutes, Lloyd makes as much as a $7 per hour worker makes in an entire year.But we can't bail out the auto industry and we can't help the home-owner faced with foreclosure. Gotta love it!!!
Kudos to advertisers for discovering how to raise the volume of their commercials,requiring me to hold the remote/volume control for the entire evening. Good show!!!
Kudos to the oil companies for figuring out a way to raise the price of gasoline to around $2 a gallon, when it should actually be around 75 cents a gallon, if you figure gasoline was $4 a gallon when the price of a barrel of oil was $160. A barrel of oil is now about $35 a barrel. You do the math. The answer for them is to reduce the amount they refine, creating a shortage, ergo the price goes up. What a country!!!
Kudos to the pharmacy industry for devising an illegal way to legally avoid paying taxes.According to a spokesman for the pharmaceudical industry, the government knows that we aren't paying, but our tax attorneys are so much smarter than the government tax people that they can't find a way to make/force us to pay our share. Great job!!
And to think that the demise of the good old US of A can be accredited to the salary of the united auto wokers. Shame on them for living a nice middle class life. Shame on the families of our military personel for requesting food stamps because they don't earn enough to make ends meet. Shame on John Q. Public for saving his money instead of filling the pockets of some rich CEO. And shame on our country for making heroes out of overpaid, steroid using baseball players, pot smoking swimmers, and a two term presidential regime that has put us on the verge of the worst depression in 80 years.