Quite Frankly My Dear

Forget the rumored financial crisis, layoffs and foreclosures: The three biggest Wall Street banks to get bailed out are set to pay record bonuses of almost $30 billion this year, up 60 percent from last year. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan Chase will hand out $29.7 billion, paying each lucky employee almost five times the U.S. median household income.

"Wall Street is beginning to resemble Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in the film ‘Gone With the Wind': ‘Quite frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn,'" said Paul Hodgson at the Maine-based Corporate Library. "It doesn't seem as if political threat, disastrous PR, envy, rising unemployment rates and home repossessions is enough to get any of these people to refuse the bonuses they have ‘earned.'"

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