Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Tone Deaf

It is truly amazing at the number of people who are still stuck in the belief that the excesses of the last several years is something that should be continued. The latest is, as you might gather, a bank, Northern Trust. This Chicago-based bank is the sponsor of a golf tournament in LA and also the recipient of $1.6 billion of our money, even though they didn't ask for it.

Being the primary bankroller of a golf tournament is, using the lexicon of Catholicism, probably a venial sin. It was the non-golf hoopla that brought their activities to the level of a mortal sin. TMZ has cataloged these sins, so I won't repeat them here, but they include a fair number of over-the-top activities given today's world.

What will it take for these people to get the message?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Such lifestyles have become the 'norm' for these people. Anything less, is poverty.

There are two Americas - the real one, and the fantasyland of Northern Trust, CitiBank, and others, where money has no more value than confetti, and is tossed around as such.