You Try to Live on 500K in This Town
PRIVATE school: $32,000 a year per student. Mortgage: $96,000 a year. Co-op maintenance fee: $96,000 a year. Nanny: $45,000 a year. We are already at $269,000, and we haven’t even gotten to taxes yet.
New York City and its suburban enclaves where successful bankers live, half a million a year can go very fast.
“As hard as it is to believe, bankers who are living on the Upper East Side making $2 or $3 million a year have set up a life for themselves in which they are also at zero at the end of the year with credit cards and mortgage bills that are inescapable.
The New York Times
If this don’t piss off a hard working low to middle class American then I don’t know what would. Here we are trying to make ends meet with the little money that we make in wages and paying taxes on top of taxes while these rich a_s people is living like kings and complaining.
And to really make myself mad is to think that these politicians are living the same life style as these people in New York, while at the same time telling us the American people that they know the best of how to spend our tax money.
The only way this country will ever turn around and be for its people is when we stand up and say enough is enough!
Let me ask you thats reading this….Does this make you mad? If so at least speak out, let your voice be heard. Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their country!
Sorry, GTP, but I think you’re barking up the wrong tree here. Yes, these guys appear wildly overpaid, especially in light of their recent performance. But do we really want government setting pay scales? Sure, the taxpayers now own a piece of the financial sector and so feel entitled to meddle, but executive salaries add up to a trivial amount compared to the likely losses we’re on the hook for. The NYT is just doing its bit here to redirect our anger, right on the Obama’s cue. Want to worry about something serious? Read this
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0216/078.html
Our enemy the state.
How about this?
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/02/smoking-gun-caller-explains-stimulus-as.html
No, I don’t want the government setting wages, the $500,000 or 3 million are both a give away of tax money! Don’t give them one dime of tax money while I’m setting here counting pennies!
You really want me to get pi_s off don’t you my friend.
In the url that you posted in comment above:
I’m a conservative Democrat and I’m from Chicago… and I, I feel that I was betrayed, I was in a meeting after Obama got elected and I was told by the Democratic officials in that meeting that we were gonna give billions of dollars that was gonna come down the pike, our way, and what we were to do with it was we were supposed to do with it…
We are gonna build an army of Democratic patronage jobs…. gonna completely freeze up the Republicans forever and ever…
It’s a job-capturing system, the same one they have in Chicago… everyone’s asking ‘why isn’t that money being released until 2011 and 2012?’
Because it needs to be released at a time that’s close to the election, so that they don’t go blow the money and spend it. So they’re gonna hold some back and that’s where… the real bucks will be spent, right up close to the election.
…It’s not a stimulus package, it’s not pork! It’s a job patronage system… there’s gonna be more [people] working for the Democrats in a patronage system than the United States Army…Read it here
The problem is that most Americans will read this and forget they ever seen it come 2012 or even 2 years from now! It makes me mad that people don’t speak out against people that are totally against our way of life and our country…wait a minute I think we the people gave away our great Nation in January 2009! And now the people don’t take the effort to speak out!
Thanks lukemcgook for speaking out!
Well, don’t get too pissed off, or you’ll have to lie down.
I do my best to stay on subject of maybe getting America to wake-up to what is going on in Washington! LOL
Free enterprise at its finest. Big Business screams “laissez faire” on the way up, and beg for government support on the way down. You can’t have it both ways.
Obama is a socialist and thats all there is to it, and yes the freebie loving people love him!