Unless we allow the banksters to run their own version of Mad Max dystopia with all our money, we’ll risk ruining civilization!

I hear there’s a new $2000 food processor called the Masterblaster.

no one who had alternatives rode the subways after rush hour.

In the ’70s and ’80s, McM? You’re fucking kidding me. And I’m probably half a foot shorter than you, McM, so it’s not as if I was too intimidating to be screwed with on public transit back then. (Or on the streets — I walked home from a lot of venues at a lot of dodgy hours in the early ’80s.)

McM reminds me of the American tourists who still won’t enter Central Park in broad daylight on a sunny Sunday in the spring. Well, screw you — that leaves more park for us native New Yorkers, and we only have to share it with polite, earnest tourists from Europe and Asia….

Hey Megs, what would the US look like if we’d had a smaller financial sector 5 years ago? Answer: a shitload better than it looks now thanks to the financial sector crashing every other sector using their oh-so-clever financial innovation. Jesus, what a privledged fucking twit this woman is.

If bonuses (not compensation, mind) are being cut 20% let’s see what they’re being cut from.
- According to the Federal Reserve many of the bonus and incentive programs that contributed to the financial crisis still remain in place.
- Nearly 80 percent of the $2 Billion in 2008 bonus pay doled out by troubled banks was unmerited.
- Overall compensation in financial services rose 5 percent in 2010, with employees in some businesses getting increases of 15 percent.
- Pay and benefits at the top 25 publicly traded banks and security firms on Wall Street hit a record of $135.5 Billion in 2010.
- The “average worker” at Goldman Sachs received $430,700 in total compensation in 2010

Sounds like they could use a lot more than a 20% bonus cut.

Geez, I average 10-20 times more facebook recommends on my hyperlocal small town Patch.com articles than she has showing on this effort of hers. And yet somehow I don’t get anywhere near the amount of pay per story that she does.

Yeah, them Captains of the Universe are just unstable enough to go Medieval on Manhattan citizens in general, if they don’t get their loot.

There hasn’t been an ammunition shortage for nothing.

TBogg, I probably would still not know McGargle was, if you did not routinely showcase her vacuous talents. But she does personify everything that is bad, and trivial, with Establishment “Journalism”.

This gets so clueless. The Banksters are special people who do not get the appreciation they deserve. They suffer from higher food costs just the same as real people. People such as McGargle, and her parasite friends are the reason the Guillotine became a popular tool for improving the gene pool.

Nonetheless, people tend to build their life around their expected salaries, and in New York, this choice is particularly important. You not only acquire a large mortgage that’s often difficult to unload quickly (closings in New York take months at minimum, longer if it’s a co-op), but also things like enormous school fees, higher food costs, and so forth.

Shhhh, she’s threatening to go all Jane Gault on us unless we pony up.

I say we let her go, no matter the separation anxiety involved.

She has worked at three start-ups, a consulting firm, an investment bank, a disaster recovery firm at Ground Zero, and The Economist.

So…bitch can’t hold a job?

Funny how they always take for granted paying the “enormous school fees” as if public schools were just not an option.
One reason, of course, that public schools have deteriorated is that more parents likely to be active in their children’s schools have decamped to the private schools with their “enormous fees.”

Besides which, even in Manhattan, there are good public schools. Don’t get me started on my rant against those who assume private is the only way to go.

Megan you keep using that word …

Post-Guiliani, New York has been a very good place to be rich, a very good place to be poor…

Lucky duckies!

Her stupid continues to burn brightly.

I have this mental image of Meeeee-ghan “going gault”, and then wearing her fingers to the bone, trying to plug all of her kitchen appliances into trees, shrubs, rocks, etc. All the while whining about how the “world is against her”.

I’d pay to see this on cable. Kind of like “Meghan Against Reality”.

Well, Robert Moses did his damage long ago, destroying neighborhoods and the geographic connection between work and home life for many. But the bankster years of Guiliani and Bloomberg have inflicted a different kind of loss on the greatest city in the world ever bar none ever in world cosmos history. For a wonderful blog that chronicles NYC’s recent losses thanks to the types McMegan celebrates (but also some of small victories in spite of ‘em, like St. Mark’s Bookstore):

http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/

Jeremiah’s a little preoccupied with the Chelsea and the Patti Smith debacle right now, but usually he’s concerned with the decline of the meatpacking district (too many boutiques, no more meatpackers), the loss of neon signs, what-not. (Start back a couple of weeks.) Great pic’s. Wonderful for exiled New Yorkers.

Methinks NYC will survive not just the decrease in executive bonuses but even McMegan.

About 35 years (and 20 lbs) ago, I walked from Lincoln center to Bellevue by myself. I’m officially a pony, height-wise, and I was dressed in a way that some might call provocative. After meeting my friend at the hospital and having dinner, we went to separate Broadway shows. I walked from the show to a bar where we were meeting a third friend after the shows. I never felt particularly threatened or nervous. I just paid attention to my surroundings and practiced situational awareness.

A couple of years later, a group of friends and I rode the subway from the stop near McSorley’s (10 rounds of stout/ale apiece) to Queens. We weren’t able to find seats all together and were even engaged in conversation by a guy with a really ugly scar across his face. No problems, just smile and nod politely, avoid showing contempt.

Megan, if you can’t handle these things, move some place safe, with a gate and ditzy botoxed neighbors. For crying out loud, you wouldn’t even survive in Bellefonte, PA.

Steven Leavitt explains in Freakonomics (with actual data!) why the drop in crime had nothing to do with Giuliani or Bloomberg or any other Masters of the Universe but was well underway during David (the black guy) Dinkins time.

Basically because Roe V Wade passed 16 -20 years earlier prevented the birth of a lot of kids who would have grown up in poverty and become criminals.

The Baroness of Bechamel burps;

Nonetheless, people tend to build their life around their expected salaries, and in New York, this choice is particularly important.

Reminds me of Patrick Ewing during the NBA strike of 1999. After citing his “woe is us” tale to a reporter, the reporter pointed out that the average struggling American may not have a lot of sympathy. At which point Ewing stated;

“Yea, we make a lot of money. But we spend a lot of money.”

I haven’t been to NYC in quite some time, but I spent a lot of time there – on & off – during the 1970s & 1980s, including living in the Village for about six months. I walked a lot at all times of day & night, plus rode the subway at all times of day & night. Yeah, you had to stay aware and exercise some caution. So what? I still have to stay aware & exercise caution where I live now. That’s the way life is.

Sheesh. Agree with a prior commenter. McAddlepated should move to some high gated super security botoxed suburban fortress if she wants to feel so safe ‘n all.

And screw the nonsense about how teh richie-riches NEED their riches because they’ve chosen to spend prolifically on themselves. ptoui!

@Hatmandu Seems to me McM and her brethren and cystren are confusing wants and needs big time, and failing to anticipate that, like the rest of us mere mortals, when things turn down, the wants must be subsumed by the needs. I’m sure the guy who could easily afford that modest home on his the salary he made at a job he held for 20 years feels like he built his life around an expectation, too. If he can live with the foreclosure that came with his downsizing, the The (Wall) Street people can live with switching to Maxwellhouse and Kendal Jackson.

McM reminds me of the American tourists who still won’t enter Central Park in broad daylight on a sunny Sunday in the spring

Reminds me of a friend I had (both of us living on Long Island) who had to drive upstate and asked me how. I told her to take the Cross Bronx and then there’s an exit to get off and drive a couple of blocks that will connect you to another parkway that takes you north. She was like “You mean I actually have to drive on a street in the Bronx!” as if there were going to be a pack of gangbangers just waiting to ambush her the moment she got off the Cross Bronx.

Why keep bashing on Meggie? She’s a bimbo without the looks or sex appeal, and that’s about the best you can say for her. She’s barely smart enough to pump out a manifestly silly freshman’s essay every few days, and she’s wrong about everything of significance (I’m cutting her some slack there, because I don’t actually know that she’s wrong about absolutely everything, although it’s a pretty safe bet). It gets a bit wearing after a while – “Oh, look! Meggers is stupidly and loudly being wrong again!” Might as well just have some sort of auto-tag so you could post a link to her latest offense against reason, slap the tag on it and say something like “more of the same asininity”. That would leave you free to post more Shakira gifs and stuff that really matters, like photos of the boys and assessing whether anybody in the GOP has any contact with reality any more.
Hey, speaking of hips, I just heard Joan Osborne’s ‘Shake Your Hips’; not bad at all.

Chris Quinones (h/t Jeremiah), as if in answer to McMegan:

Another thing – when NYC was dangerous, it was cheap to live and party here, only because none of these assholes wanted to live here. Then they found out how lame it is everywhere else in the world outside of NYC and they realized if they want that bullshit art degree to get them any type of money, they had to try and get a slice of NYC pie. Now none of us locals can afford to live in the very same city…that we made awesome. Now we all have to move to lame-ass New Jersey or the fucking Bronx?!?!? Keep your fucking Asian fusion and vegan restaurants. Gimme New York the way it was before.”

Stupid girl.

All I can think of, this moment, is a white man in a three-piece suit aping Cleavon Little’s character in “Blazing Saddles”:

ONE MORE MOVE AND THE BANKER GETS IT

I think that we should all pause a bit in bashing MegMac and appreciate J.J. Abrams, who apparently made Cloverfield in part out of his disappointment that the head of the Statue of Liberty was not in fact sitting on a street in Manhattan in Escape from New York, contrary to the poster.

What, after he saw the movie, did J.J. Abrams kneel and scream, ‘You never did it! You never blew it up! Maniacs!’