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General News 10/20/2009 at 10:13 AM EDT

OUR SUPERIOR BEINGS: Wall Street 40% Bonus Rise Feeds Spending on $43 Steak, Co-ops

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Isn't this how it should be, that our superior God-like Banksters should swim in money while we inferior beings go homeless on street-corners, looking for the nearest soup kitchens? After all, didn't their Sun-God brilliance warrant such bonuses? Oh wait, we forgot about the 12 trillion dollars the Fed shuffled under the table to put the Banksters in the black while paying off their monstrous gambling debts.

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