Eh, I'm guessing the thousands of lower level people who got (and will be) summarily laid off had lifestyles they'd prefer not to lose as well

I never claimed that people with reductions in enormous salaries deserved more sympathy than anybody else. In fact, my very point is not the person who makes the money, but those who depend on them and had nothing to do with the malfeasance. Not to mention the charities that depend on donations from the ultra-rich for their very existence.

Anyway, I'm not claiming "oh those poor, poor rich people." I'm thinking about the people they support, the people they employ, the effect on the industries that rely on them. A raise very rarely trickles down, but I think a pay cut always does.

I'm not in any way disagreeing with the cap, either. I'm just not filled with the schadenfreude.

When the economy recovers, I'm buying this tea infuser.

That is so awesome.

I'm thinking about the people they support, the people they employ, the effect on the industries that rely on them.

While not a Corporate Fat Cat, I have decided it's my duty as a still-employed person to do all the normal things like buy clothes and get my nails done and occasional massages and stuff like that -- I still have the income I had last year, and am not likely to lose my job (knock wood), so why start hoarding away my money at the expense of the service workers?

I'm going to take that logic one step further and say that it is my patriotic duty as an American to replace my cheap piece-of-shit Cablevision DVR with a Series 3 Tivo.

Jeep beats

Ah, crap. {{Miracleborns}}

Ah, fuck - I'm so sorry Aims & Joe.

Oh fuck.

Crap, Joe and Aimee. Good luck.

Also, if you've been making the kind of money where a cut to 500k is an outrage and you don't have enough together to weather the storm, well? My tiny violin is in the shop.

a thousand times this.