<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#999900;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2d7d5331-4f2e-4ee5-8d28-bb3ebdd591ef/F0735059-D483-43EF-9BE3-F156D17FDF61/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/162816/Wall-Street%E2%80%99s-Sick-Psychology-of-Entitlement?tickers=BAC,JPM,MS,GS,XLF,C" href="http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/162816/Wall-Street%E2%80%99s-Sick-Psychology-of-Entitlement?tickers=BAC,JPM,MS,GS,XLF,C" style="font-size: 11px;">finance.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/162816/Wall-Street%E2%80%99s-Sick-Psychology-of-Entitlement?tickers=BAC,JPM,MS,GS,XLF,C"><H1>Wall Street’s Sick Psychology of Entitlement</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/162816/Wall-Street%E2%80%99s-Sick-Psychology-of-Entitlement?tickers=BAC,JPM,MS,GS,XLF,C"><CITE> Posted Jan 22, 2009 10:12pm EST by John Carney in <A href="http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/Banking">Banking</A></CITE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/162816/Wall-Street%E2%80%99s-Sick-Psychology-of-Entitlement?tickers=BAC,JPM,MS,GS,XLF,C"><P>It was only a few months ago that we were being told that Merrill Lynch, among others, desperately needed billions of dollars to survive, that without injections of new capital the financial system would come crashing down around us. If any of this was true, it should have been impossible for Merrill to pay out $15 billion in bonuses. Even the sharpest critics of the bailout never imagined that it would be used to make wealthy idiots even wealthier.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/162816/Wall-Street%E2%80%99s-Sick-Psychology-of-Entitlement?tickers=BAC,JPM,MS,GS,XLF,C"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG><B>"We made money. It was just one part of the firm that lost it all. So we deserve to be paid."</B>  </STRONG>Sorry, buddy. That’s not the way capitalism works. Ask the guy who just lost his job installing seat belts in GM cars. He was really good at that but since no one is buying those cars, he’s out of a job.  Being really good at what you do doesn’t matter if your firm is broke—and your firm is broke. It’s now on taxpayer supported life-support.<STRONG></STRONG></LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F0735059-D483-43EF-9BE3-F156D17FDF61/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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