The Vampire Squid From Hell

"In a few weeks, the Treasury Department's czar of executive pay will have to answer this $100 million question: Should Andrew J. Hall get his bonus?

Mr. Hall, the 58-year-old head of Phibro, a small commodities trading firm in Westport, Conn., is due for a nine-figure payday, his cut of profits from a characteristically aggressive year of bets in the oil market.

There is little doubt that Mr. Hall is owed the money under his contract. The problem is that his contract is with Citigroup, which was saved with roughly $45 billion in taxpayer aid.

Corporate pay has become a live grenade in the aftermath of the largest series of corporate bailouts in American history. In March, when the American International Group, rescued at vast taxpayer expense, was to give out $165 million in bonuses, Congress moved to constrain the payouts, and protesters showed up at the homes of several executives." (source)

All contracts would've been terminated had the TAXPAYER bailout not happened. And when the TAXPAYER bailout DID happen, the contracts SHOULD'VE been cleared of any bonuses exceeding an appropriate amount. Like... Oh, I don't know, let's be generous and say ten dollars. He's due to receive $100,000,000.00 directly (and indirectly) from our pockets as A BONUS and it's disgusting and vile.


Here's Andrew J. Hall when he played Water Polo at Oxford.

(Last night, our friend "Levin" educated me on a creature that I didn't know previously existed. It's the Vampire Squid and I felt the introduction of the "Vampire Squid" and the analogy to Andrew J. Hall was appropriate at this time.)


And here is exclusive footage of Mr. Hall relaxing at home in his 1000 year old German Castle where he rubs his penis on his bad, contemporary art collection...

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