A Slow Day

I have to say that today has been pretty uneventful in regards to blogging, as in, nothing of particular in the news has riled me up for a change.

Well... there is of course the fact that our dear Alastair believes that even after all the rowing with various people of some state of importance, he feels that it is still acceptable to make "discretionary payments" to the RBS' "best staff" in order to keep our economy afloat. Otherwise, you see, some of our "best" executives up there may be tempted to abandon our economy in order to receive bonuses. And this would hurt our economy how?

There would be plenty of people to fill their self-important shoes. Plenty of people are qualified to do their jobs better than them. I'm sure they couldn't put the country into further recession than these amazingly talented bankers have done already.

Even Mr Prescott has started (of all things) a FACEBOOK appeal to call for a public campaign to stop the bonuses. The idea of Prescott "poking" me aside, I think the man has a point. His intervention says to me what I know has been clear all along: capitalism has gone too far. Where on earth do these bankers think they would be if it was not for the floundering businesses and homeowners now who put them in their wheelie leather chairs?

All this too, and meanwhile UBS Financial Services have resorted to "stealing" brokers from rivals Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley by offering brokers a whooping 260% "compensation" of the previous year's profits.

I can't believe I am living in a world of monetary madness. Every day I see hard working people struggle to make ends meet as the recession slowly seeps into their homes. Women in America are trying to keep their families together while their husbands are being laid off. And now, it appears, bankers all over are being rewarded for putting us into this fine mess.

And I thought it was a slow day. I think I may have just found some material for my assignments.