If bankers donated just 10% of bonuses to Haiti, $4.7 billion would go to a country in need

Please people you can't possibly believe that your money is going to Haiti. I mean really, is everyone that ignorant? Its going right into the pockets of BUSH and Clinton. He said in his speech don't send anything but cash and he will be sure it goes right where it should. He also said he was sick to his stomach when he saw the wrecked torn photos of Haiti, yet being responsible for killing over 3000 people on 9/11 didn't do anything except make him A NERVOUS LIAR! google Zeitgeistmovie watch and learn more than you have ever learned from any institution thus far in your life

"If bankers donated just 10% of bonuses to Haiti," That is a BIG "if."

the hatred for bankers is starting to get eerie. I know may be entirely unrelated but i feel hints of antisemitism. Obviously this is not coming from most people but its just such an eerie thing. Sure, bankers should donate some money, so should most people who spend on nothing but improvements to their own lives. Income connects to a strange sliding scale of "needs" and nobody; bankers or otherwise, donates such a sum of their own money when they could be saving and/or wasting it. Charity needs to be "closer to home" for most people too, unless you've lived through most of these things they don't seem so bad. Aid for countries like this before the disaster, now thats the kind of thinking we need.

Silly tacman, partisan politics cloud judgement. Yes, Bush was evil but I never separate the two parties or Presidents. Washington is Washington no matter who's at the helm. Corrupt, criminal, bank worshiping liars, all of them.

Oh no no no. Let them keep the money. It wont bring them happiness, but they think it will. These people keep searching for it. I need more money, i need more money, I need, I need..... What good is it for a man to gain the whole world an loose his soul...

Vote them all out

to tacman12: That's right brother, all things are connected. But let's not applaude Obama for stepping over the bodies for some photo ops. He has to perform here given our abysmal failures responding to Katrina and the tsunami. Where was he then. Quit looking for demigods in politicians and hold all their feet to the fire. Jesus was not a friend to Rome. I am maybe more concerned about the government (and American flags) in church, than a few people saying prayers in school.

@WeAreChangeKy It's naive to think that Bush didn't have anything to do with this. He kept Haiti down on purpose for eight years so they couldn't build buildings that could withstand earthquakes. Basically, Bush is a criminal in all this. Wake up Sheeple!

We've started a Facebook group 'Bankers Bonuses to Haiti'. If you sympathize with this sentiment please join and share with your friends. Thanks

tacman12 said: I am going to say what everyone seems scared to say: This is George W. Bush's fault./// I voted Democrat and that's still just silly.

hey carlos, yeah, you're completely right - not a penny of it would ever see it's way to those that need it. you're right - everything is so completely corrupt, there is no hope. we probably should just give up. capitalism is more important than charity anyway. i promise to never seek out utopian ideals. i'm sure the banker earned every penny of it anyway. why should poor brown people ever get any help? they're too lazy to work, right?

p.s. - you're a jerk.

I am going to say what everyone seems scared to say: This is George W. Bush's fault.

well, we all know that bankers are of no benefit to the society. just a bunch of wankers.

And what about all the idiots who defaulted on their payment. I'm fairly confident you put zero blame on the people who took out loans for house they knew they wouldn't of been able to afford. Also, bonuses for them isn't the same as the ones you would get. It's considered part of their salary in a lot of companies. It's just labeled that for tax purposes. They recieve a low salary and are compensated with large "bonuses". WHAT? Their 'low pay' is in the realm of 250,000 to 1 million dollars a year. And then, you say they get large bonuses to compensate for that? And then, they stole the bailout money to boot?

All of us act selfishly and are manipulative every hour of every day. Mother Teresa was the most selfish person I am aware of recently. She always did exactly what she wanted. Think about it and save your mightier than thou crap. Those people in Haiti have suffered for decades and frequently under the boot of our beloved country and corporations. Now it is in your face and suddenly you all feel moved to tears? What is the civilian body count in Iraq and Afghanistan these days? And why are we there? Please remind me you democrats, you republicans, you liberals, Mr. Obama. Double talk, the new (actually, very old) official language of these God blessed United States.

tacman, everyone and our children and grandchildren already gave more than 10%. IT WAS CALLED THE BAILOUT!

To all who ASSume that some/most have yet to donate you are sadly mistaken. Cast stones? Come on folks, I use curse words because I like it, but it should not make me less intelligent than all of you perfect people who've responded with such hatred towards a mire opinion that I stated. If I said that I live paycheck to paycheck and with higher property taxes on the brink of losing my home am I bad only because I could give 40 bucks?! Who is really casting stones here? I know who to read. Is it so terrible to say that people who are very well off should contribute; at least they can write it off their taxes! Sorry to have a FUCKING OPINION.

How would any of you even know if any bankers DID donate money to Haiti?

Answer: You wouldn't.

What about other industries? Why not the Oil companies or the drug companies? What were their bonuses? I guess the only fair way to really do this would be to charge 10% from everyone in the country. We should have a special "Relief for Haiti" Tax on every American!

all of you folks commenting should also pony up and donate 10% of your salary, spend your own money first, then cast stones

I organized a collection at my job for Doctors Without Borders and donated to the Red Cross. And I have never gotten any bonus in my life for my career in social work, much less one that amounts to millions. And I believe that my work is more valuable than any banker at this juncture because, oh I dunno, LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO THE ECONOMY OF THE WORLD!

First, those spineless, greedy idiots would never give any of their money to anyone in need. Also, do you really think the people who need it would get it? It would go to the corrupt police officers and other city planners.

For all of you who think that the money that the bankers have received should go to Haiti, what are you doing to help ?

Donating money won't change their public image so why would they? "Oh it's the right thing to do!" is very subjective because I'd rather see money being used to help people in need in America.

Seems like the majority of people here blindly demonize bankers without knowing all the facts. Did you know these companies were contractually obligated to give out the bonuses? Did you know a portion of people recieving bonuses opted to give it back to the company? "Set aside" is not the same thing as paid.

Don't get me wrong... I don't like how the upper class (not just bankers) are unreasonably richer then the middle class, but welcome to America; a capitalist country.

No we don't. My agenda isn't political./////Says (JanforGore) Ironic.

I think the argument of the article is completely stupid. Yes, Haiti is in desperate need, and if any non-government institutions would like to help with support from people, it's okay. However, acting like it's a moral obligation is not true. I would like to help Haiti because it would make me happy, personally. Others would not, including those bankers.

I'm with the bankers. F__k You Haiti and F__k You America.

No we don't. My agenda isn't political.

Wow, we have more in common with you than you think, myself and Monkey, Jan. Well said, Bravo!

earning money through unethical means doesn't mean you're more selfish—it means you're more CAPABLE. calm_incense, i think you meant ethical, not unethical, you should edit that to make the point correctly, it throws off the meaning.

I do not think that the bankers should be getting any kind of bonus until they pay us back what they stole. Of coarse then they would be in prison where they all belong.

But that would require having a beating heart and a moral compass. They should have to give back the agricultural self sufficiency they took away with their "loans," inflated prices, speculation, forced GMO aid, and destruction of their infrastructure. Cold hearted greedy selfish bastards.

You are defending bankers?

It's so cute seeing all of you demonize bankers—the one-size-fits-all scapegoats—thus making you feel better about your own pathetically insubstantial "sacrifices" for the Haitian people.

Saving the world from the comfort of your own bedroom—how convenient!

Bankers know no bounds when it comes to OUR hard-earned cash. They charge us for every little damn thing now just because they see us as idiots, which some of us are. I say ban the banking system and let the ---no, wait, the government takes our money in the form of taxes and the IRS! Fuck that!

Or they could progressively tax those bonuses and help the national debt...

Can you imagine if that really happened.? Not even for a second could I believe that those richy rich effers would even think about it. Tomorrow they'll dine with 400,000 dollar bottles of booze and all the drugs and whores they can cram on a yacht.

AND VICGAL IS A D-BAG. Don't tell me that it wouldn't help. Go cyber and stuff ur pie hole u fag.

smoke and Sh*t ?????

And it would all come back to us from all the Miami rice we force Haiti to buy so that they don't develop their own agriculture or become self sufficient.

We have spent the past 30 years making sure Haiti could not support its self do you really think we are going to undo all that hard work?

Haiti is where Walt Disney gets its slave wage labor from, don't count on it.

We regularly intervene in their government to keep it that way, why would they give a shit?

wow, how am i suppose to feel patriotism, how am i suppose to be proud to be an american, i would rather live in a third-world country where death is at my door-step than just sit here and watch as our government does nothing to resolve this, and that corporate scumbags can continue to rob us blind and leave us without any dignity in the world. we are all guilty of sitting back and taking it up the ass. meanwhile the bankers are laughing all the way to the... banks! banks banks banks banks banks! you're better off setting your money on fire than investing your money when all it does is fill their pockets. what are they doing with all of our money anyway? buying more mansions? summer homes? condos? yachts? sportscars? hookers?

If the recipients of these ill gotten gains at the banks are too heartless to sacrifice those bonuses to Haiti, then I hope the Karmic justice is swift and painful.

I like the post. It puts things in perspective.

Unfortunatly this donation from the bankers would never happen in a utopia, because they wouldnt be making that kind of money in the first place!

Great post! I can see it now....people of the world caring for other people of the world, doing the RIGHT thing. If only it would happen!

No problem, at the appropriate inflated interest rates, of course.

Awesome post, come on bankers, you got the money free from us anyway.

It could go to Haiti, it could provide healthcare for 974,295 americans, it could feed countless starving children around the world. The last place it should go is into the bankers already overflowing pockets.

don't ask the bankers to go out of their way, can't you see they are busy!

That is the stupidest statement I have ever heard. To tell the bankers to give there money to Hati is complete and utter bs. If you gave that money to Hati the Hatians would be the last people to get it. When I hear liberal utopian BS like that all that I can think of is someone hitting a bong and talking crap like that.

good luck