Bankers' Spouses Deprived Of Luxury Items During Downturn

I guess rentals in the Hamptons should be easier to come by this year.

Maybe the young unemployed investment bankers could go volunteer to fight in Iraq.

Jeez, how are they going to make the payments on their condo in Manhatten and their summer home in the Hamptons? I guess we should take some of our $ 600.00 rebate and send it to a rich person of our choice. Can you provide me with a list of the needy recipients? This would be reverse trickle down economics.

Are you all that happy that bankers lost money? If you read the article none of the bankers or their wives complained or asked for help. I am one of those "bad" bankers. This downturn means that my family will cut some spending. But we will not go hungry or count last dollar. However, I REFUSE to apologize for being successful. I worked damn hard for it. Before all you start screaming at me, these are a few answers to your questions:

Yes, I do know what it means to be hungry. I have spend a few years as a teenager not knowing if my family will be able to buy food by the end of the month

No, I was not born in to the rich family

Yes I work 80-90 hours per week

Yes I do spend a portion of my income to help less fortunate. And yes I refuse to help ones who are want handouts rather than a hand up...

No, I do not lie and cheat to make my money.


So once again, why should I feel bad about my success...

motel 6 baby ?no more 2600 dollar a nites stays welcome to the real world
the american people are speaking with there lack of spending there money .AKA
consumer confidence.it,s the only power we have left in our republic of these United States

Let them eat cake.

"...$50,000 dollars worth of final touches.."? Isn't that what Eliot Spitzer got?

I feel their pain. Poor things. Will they have to visit the pawn shop? As the new fashion season hits the runways, they will be forced to shop in the handmedown shops. Oh the inhumanity of it all is just more than I can bear.

Oh, the poor dears. My heart is just breaking for them. Whatever will they do? How will they survive? I'm happy to be poor; I'll never have such awful problems.

Now do you see what happens if you don't extend tax breaks for the wealthy? Now do you understand why it's so important to get rid of the death tax? Can you now in good conscience object to the government bailout of banking interests? This is what happens when bankruptcy reform doesn't go far enough and allows bankrupt people to walk away with their world possessions while they still owe 24.99% interest on their credit card debt.

Please don't make the wealthy cancel any more updates to their kitchens you thoughtless trashy poor folk!

Something must be done!!! Call out the Republican Guard to cut their taxes and subsidize their redecorating!! HURRY FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!

"We only had about $50,000 worth of final touches [to go], and the wife called me last week and said stop"

$50,000 in "final touches?" How much must have the completed "touches" cost? Cry me a river.

I apologize for my previous comment. I have since realized I have something in common with these wives. After 20 years of paying on the mortgage for my modest home, I too am within $50,000 of paying it off. Having almost paid all the interest, I can now start paying on the principal. Sadly, I may have to stop that now. So yes, there really isn't a "dime's worth of difference" between me and them.

Someone get me a Hermes hanky.

Off with their fucking heads.

Champagne spewed out of my nose as I read this. If we don't save the rich, who will? Once my silk slacks come back from the cleaner, I'm going to finish my cigar and go out and hand out jobs on the street.

I have a large box of velcro bootstraps that I will issue to anyone who asks me for a handout. ; )

Just he headline had me tearing up. I know what it's like to do without those little perks of life. For me it's just health insurance and a living wage.

Its high time for a push-back against the overly wealthy. They have been fighting a successful incrimental war against the middle and lower class, and now they need to learn that they have gone too far.

The time for a class war is now - push back, show as much mercy for them as they did for you, let them know hunger and fear, and then we can be nation again. We are armed with our money, our votes, and our fists - I say we should use them all.

Maybe if we open up another can of NAFTA these people can better afford their interior decorators.

Loved this line,.... "We only had about $50,000 worth of final touches [to go], and the wife called me last week and said stop," said interior designer Darren Henault.

Give me $50K and I could pay off all my consumer loan and almost all my student loan debt in one fell swoop. That would only leave me with the mortgage debt,...

How freakin' sad for those elitist's spouses that they might have to take a pass on designer crapola knick-nacks to finish furnishing the spare bedroom, unsed 4th bathroom, or the library,... My heart bleeds for them,.....

NOT

There's Iraq, and the there's this, the real unspoken tragedy.

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Our poor (once was middle class) has been living off credit cards for years. Even Oprah had shows telling America how to stop the madness. On 9/12/2001 Bush Jr. says keep shopping. China and other countries who naw have our jobs thanked Mr. Bush for staying focus on the money. Every followered our nation's leader message. Now Bears & Stern sold for $2.00 or maybe $10.00 a share will be far far
better off the rest of the people. These employees and their mates should have watched Oprah. They would not feel it is the end, like most American were forced to feel when their jobs were out-sourced.
They now can follow Bush Jr. second message, go to school and get more training, but don't expect the government to pay for it. The government only take care of a few people becasue we do not believe in big government. Wake up America, If taxpayers to include children are paying to the company only doing business with the government (main source of income) it is not private. It is a goverment job with a duck tape business sign. Communist China is communist , no matter how many rolls of dick tape used to cover the sign, The Flag has not change.

The bottomline is that the rich do employ.....the rest of us.It doesn't matter to me that they spend on friovlous objects but someone is proviceing the services and earlning a living from this.