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| By Talisker | ||||||||
| 01 November 2006 | ||||||||
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I was shocked to learn that 4000 executives in the City of London received bonuses exceeding £1 million this year. That's £4,000,000,000+ and thats only the bonuses, not the salaries. Am I alone in thinking this obscene and worthy of some government action? In the end whose money was it? It was you me and the average joe's pension fund or savings that's whose! It makes me livid! I speak as one who worked in the financial sector, not at the rarified level of million quid bonuses, but high enough to see the greed in the whites of their eyes. Oli. I’ll call you neither pig nor fatted cat, None but man displays such avarice, And surely not the best of men at that, Is he who always cuts the biggest slice. There is a huge conspiracy of greed, To ease the guilty conscience of the few, Who plunder without reference to need, Resources which the Earth cannot renew. “I’m paid what I am worth” I hear you say, “The market makes the call and it is free” This market which you call to your defence, Is merely a cartel to set your fee. Tell me you’re worth four hundred nursing staff! A hundred noble surgeons, saving lives! Your feeble vindications make me laugh, It’s us you’re carving with your steely knives. So take your filthy lucre while you can, And sneer at us who struggle to get by, Wealth and possessions maketh not a man, And riches are no comfort when we die. Oli (01/11/06)
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