Comments on: Counterparties http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/10/19/counterparties-448/ A slice of lime in the soda Sat, 18 May 2013 23:43:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: RalfW http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/10/19/counterparties-448/comment-page-1/#comment-32088 RalfW Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:57:28 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=10607#comment-32088 “It was a non-ethical practice.” Oh, such a neutral, such a detached and, shall I say it, non-threatening term this. Non-ethical. Sorry, Mr. Van Mol formerly of News Corp. The circulation-inflating was a scam. A lie. A calculated malfeasance. It was UNethical. Not "non-ethical." And people still wonder why the Occupy people are upset? “It was a non-ethical practice.” Oh, such a neutral, such a detached and, shall I say it, non-threatening term this.

Non-ethical.

Sorry, Mr. Van Mol formerly of News Corp. The circulation-inflating was a scam. A lie. A calculated malfeasance.

It was UNethical. Not “non-ethical.”

And people still wonder why the Occupy people are upset?

]]> By: klhoughton http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/10/19/counterparties-448/comment-page-1/#comment-32057 klhoughton Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:14:20 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=10607#comment-32057 Orszag in translation - Labor's value is shrinking, and you mofos won't live so long as I will either. Meanwhile, the bankrupt company I kept alive with YOUR tax dollars (which I now want to take away from you in the interest of "fiscal responsibility") turned my $196,700 a year into more than an order of magnitude more than that. (Again, your tax dollars, paid for by interest on the "excess" reserves our horse puckey "balance sheet" pretends are real. Did I mention you're going to have to bail us out again, since more than half our "profit" last quarter was because people deluded themselves into believing we're more solvent?) I got mine, Jack. You flockers will suffer, and I'm doing everything I can to make certain you do. Orszag in translation – Labor’s value is shrinking, and you mofos won’t live so long as I will either.

Meanwhile, the bankrupt company I kept alive with YOUR tax dollars (which I now want to take away from you in the interest of “fiscal responsibility”) turned my $196,700 a year into more than an order of magnitude more than that. (Again, your tax dollars, paid for by interest on the “excess” reserves our horse puckey “balance sheet” pretends are real. Did I mention you’re going to have to bail us out again, since more than half our “profit” last quarter was because people deluded themselves into believing we’re more solvent?)

I got mine, Jack. You flockers will suffer, and I’m doing everything I can to make certain you do.

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