Merry Christmas you sub-prime suckers.

[Neshanic]

Dec. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein claimed a $67.9 million bonus, the biggest ever awarded to the CEO of a Wall Street firm, after delivering a record profit amid the subprime market collapse.

[crim son]

1. Jeebus, I'd be pissed.

We bought our house at a good price, with a great, fixed interest rate and 40% down. We can no longer afford to pay the heat and taxes and it WAS NOT foreseeable. I have the utmost compassion & empathy for those "suckers." I know you do too.

[mdmc]

2. I must admit that I am impressed with Goldman Sachs

In order to profit during this collapse, they must have stayed completely out of the real estate bubble. That must have taken some real fucking discipline. Free money everywhere and they kept their noses clean.

Impressive for often shortsighted investors.

[RB TexLa]

8. Jamie Dimon got JPM out of it in time as well.

[book_worm]

3. that is just plain immoral, imo.

No one person is worth a nearly $68 million bonus. If he had any class (as I'm sure he must get a very good yearly salary anyway) he would donate that money to some worthy cause to help many people rather than profiting only himself and his family. (and I don't care if his company is a top contributor to democrats).

[Joe Fields]

4. Interesting that you should say that, because....

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Goldman Sachs is among the top seven contributors to Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Pat Leahy, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards.

And for many of those named, Goldman Sachs is either number one, or in the top five largest contributors.

[Xenotime]

5. Isn't there any way to stop these people from hording all this money?

[Javaman]

6. And just why is this surprising?

come on, we live in the era of the reverse peter principle.

[lonestarnot]

7. Who said anything about surprising?

[zippy890]

9. O bountiful excessive profits

thy name is Capitalism