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January 14th, 2012
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January 9th, 2012
Bloomberg on spooked on SNL
October 16th, 2011
GE pays no taxes. gets’s billions back, heads Obama’s jobs panel
John Stewart Gives Up:
Additionally, with its huge profits GE just can’t go on without enormous givebacks from its greedy workers.
After not paying any taxes and making huge profits, ThinkProgress has learned that General Electric is expected to ask its nearly 15,000 unionized employees in the United States to make major concessions.
This year, 14 unions representing more than 15,000 workers will negotiate a new master contract with General Electric. Among the major concessions GE has signaled that it will ask of union workers is the elimination of a defined contribution benefit pension for new employees, a move the company has already implemented for its non-union salaried employees. Likewise, GE is signaling to the union that it will ask for the elimination of current health insurance plans in favor of lower quality health saving accounts, a move the company has already implemented for non-union salaried employees as well.
In addition, General Electric may ask some workers for a wage freez
March 30th, 2011
Wisconsin situation explained in 3 lines & 1 joke
A public union employee, a tea party activist and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, “Watch out for that union guy he wants a piece of your cookie.”
[H/t AMERICAblog.]
March 1st, 2011
Moral collapse and the economic crisis
Bloomberg columnist Michael Lewis explains the causes of the crash. Among the reasons he explains that bankers assumed that average people were far more moral than themselves and their bansker crook buddies:
Moral Collapse
Financial Crisis Cause No. 2: The moral collapse of the American working class.
AIG head Robert Benmosche has recently pointed out that the reason his firm has enjoyed such great success is precisely because it has avoided selling insurance to the large number of Americans who believe, as Benmosche put it, “that the government is responsible for what happens to me.” (As we know, the government is responsible only for what happens to AIG).
The CEO of JPMorgan, Jamie Dimon, has often called our attention to the outrageous amount of banker bashing by Americans outside the financial sector, who seek to blame their troubles on others.
Wall Street leaders now understand that they made a mistake, one born of their innocent and trusting nature. They trusted ordinary Americans to behave more responsibly than they themselves ever would, and these ordinary Americans betrayed their trust.
Amazingly, these ordinary Americans don’t even appear to feel guilty for their actions. Like wild animals that have lost their fear of humans, they continue to wander down from the hills to rummage through our garbage cans for sustenance.
Meanwhile, Matt Taibbi explains to Cenk Uygu why no Wall Streeters go to jail:
February 17th, 2011