Dopiero, co ratowane pieniędzmi podatników wielkie banki rozdysponowały bonusy dla swoich wybranych traderow.
Poniżej wartość tegorocznych bonusów:
Goldman Sachs – 1,73 miliarda funtów,
Morgan Stanley - 2 miliardy funtów,
Merrill Lynch 2.33 miliardy funtów.
Od podatników do bankierów. To sie nazywa redystrybucja bogactwa.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warn.....in_bonuses
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Christmas is a time for giving - but there should be limits. It has emerged that four major banking firms in London - Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Dresdner Kleinwort - are handing out bonuses to traders totalling £6.4 billion. In view of the bailout gifted by Gordon Brown, Saviour of the World, to the banks, this means that these pots of gold come straight from the pockets of taxpayers.
What kind of cynical, amoral madness is this? Do these people even know the meaning of the term "bonus"? It is supposed to be a reward for performance above and beyond the call of duty. What kind of performance have traders put in at Goldman Sachs, whose earnings fell by 47 per cent this year? Yet its bonus handouts total £1.73 billion. Morgan Stanley is handing out £2 billion, Merrill Lynch £2.33 billion.
Even so stalwart a member of the banking establishment as Stephen Green, chairman of HSBC, admitted three months ago that bonuses had contributed to the financial crisis. Any normal people, standing amid the ruins of the banking system they had brought down, would have recognised the fat days were over, that they were lucky to be bailed out by the taxpayer and to retain their jobs - in some instances, as Vince Cable has pointed out, to avoid going to jail.
Yet here they are, with undimmed arrogance, doling out public money to cronies. That money came from hardworking people who have never earned anything like the fortunes paid to bankers and many of whom now stand to lose their jobs in a recession provoked by the banking industry.
Note the modus operandi: the Government, through its tax inspectors, harries people of limited means to part with an unjust proportion of their income; the Government then hands the proceeds over to the banks who dole it out to their most favoured employees. With the Government acting as money launderer, cash is transferred from the pockets of average Britons to the wallets of City slickers. This is redistribution of wealth, but not of the kind Gordon Brown formally espouses.
Earlier this year, Gordon Brown said "rewards will only be based on performance and long-term value creation". What a comedian. This is Brown's responsibility. When he determined on a bailout of the banks, why did he not impose, as a primary condition, a ban on even the smallest bonuses until all taxpayers' money had been repaid?
There are still apologists explaining patronisingly that the bonus system remains necessary to attract and retain "people of talent". Oh, yeah? The kind of talent that got us into the present situation? It is the architects of the financial sector's downfall who are now being rewarded. What does Gordon Brown intend to do about this? |
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