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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (316000)	12/16/2006 1:53:34 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578704

What To Do With Your Goldman Sachs Bonus Investment Firm Goldman Sachs Reported the Largest Profit in Wall Street History By MARY KATHRYN BURKE and ELIZABETH KOLLEENY abcnews.go.com ( Why do they hate us? Maybe some clues here..) Dec. 13, 2006 — - It was reported today that Wall Street's famed investment bank Goldman Sachs will be shelling out over $16 billion in bonuses this holiday season -- an average of over $600,000 per employee. Many of those bonuses will be performance-based, so some of the company's bigwigs are likely to get as much as $100 million. With all that cash coming in, it's easy to wonder what someone might buy with a $100 million holiday bonus. You could provide immunizations for more than 40,000 impoverished children for a year ($37.5 million), then throw a birthday party for your daughter and one million of her closest friends ($60 million). You'd still have enough to buy a different color Rolls Royce for each day of the week ($2.5 million). You could feed about 800,000 children for a year ($60 million), recreate the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes and Brad Pitt-Jennifer Aniston weddings four times over ($16 million), buy one of Mel Gibson's private islands ($15 million), and still remain a millionaire nine times over. You could pay Harvard tuition for more than 1,500 students who couldn't afford it ($70.5 million), provide health care to over 1,000 Americans for a year ($7 million), and still have enough to buy a different Brioni designer suit for every single day of the year ($6,000 suits for all 365 days would cost $22 million). You could take everyone in the country of Grenada to a Broadway show, then buy the most expensive apartment in New York City (a triplex penthouse at the Pierre Hotel, $70 million), and still have an extra $15 million dollars in your pocket -- over 300 times the median income of the average American household. You could buy every person in Kansas City a pair of Manolo Blahnik shoes (147,000 pairs of $400 shoes comes out to about $60 million) and still have $40 million dollars left -- that's more than 500 times the average doctor's salary in the United States (about $80,000). You could buy 1,000 gala tables at your favorite charity's ball ($10 million), provide winter blankets for 350,000 children in developing countries ($14 million), personally pay Derek Jeter's salary for a year ($21 million), and still buy your own private Boeing jet ($55 million). You still could not pay to insure Jennifer Lopez's backside though -- rumored to be worth a cool $1 billion, according to the New York Post. Copyright © 2006 ABC News Internet Ventures

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (316000)	12/18/2006 6:43:47 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578704

re: I'll just wait until the Democrats prove themselves to be worse than Republicans. OK. But that's a hell of a challenge with the Reps we've had these past 6 years. I can't even imagine what "worse" would look like.