Re: In Bush, Loyalists See A Good & Steadfast Man Who Has Gotten A Bad Rap

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:13:45 -0000, "William Black"
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>"James Beck" <jdbeck11209@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:50:40 -0000, "William Black"
>> <william.black@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>"James Beck" <jdbeck11209@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:43:36 -0000, "William Black"
>>>> <william.black@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>>>"James Beck" <jdbeck11209@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>> On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:45:19 -0000, "William Black"
>>>>>> <william.black@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>>>>>"James Beck" <jdbeck11209@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>>> No. They were contractually obligated to spend the money, one way
or
>>>>>>>> the other, and those top producers are sufficiently unusual
talents 
>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>> their own right that *any* of them could leave AIG at 9am and
have a
>>>>>>>> new job by 10. Competition for them is fierce. If those people 
>>>>>>>> leave,
>>>>>>>> they are very difficult to replace. Without them, a financial 
>>>>>>>> services
>>>>>>>> company is hard pressed to survive long-term without taking huge
>>>>>>>> amounts of risk.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Get real.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>These are the dim-bulbs who got us all into this mess in the first
>>>>>>>place.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Don't be fooled by the $3,000 suits and $500 haircuts,  they're no
>>>>>>>brighter
>>>>>>>than the average school teacher.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>They're just a sight more glib...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nothing personal, but you have no idea what you're talking about.
>>>>>> Compete with them. Get back to me when you're a bit more humble.
>>>>>
>>>>>I don't need to compete with them.
>>>>>
>>>>>They're vile.
>>>>>
>>>>>I just avoid them and everything they and people like them are
involved
>>>>>in.
>>>>>
>>>>>I don't do 'humble' either.
>>>>>
>>>>>I know I'm good at what I choose to do.
>>>>>
>>>>>My lifestyle is such that I know I'm a success within my own terms.
>>>>>
>>>>>I certainly don't envy anyone involved in something as sordid and
>>>>>uncertain
>>>>>as banking has become.  And it has become sordid and uncertain
through 
>>>>>the
>>>>>efforts of the bankers and no-one else.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The sweetly pungent smell of roast loser is close enough to humility
>>>> for me, but then I prefer my food cooked. I think they would eat you
>>>> alive, though it's certainly possible, however remotely, that you'd
do
>>>> okay.
>>>
>>>You're self im****tant little **** aren't you...
>>
>> There, there. Did the mean, old banker say that you were full of ****?
>> If there were any real chance that you'd be good at it, there would
>> have been signs of it before now. You probably wouldn't have a prayer
>> at what they do and you might as well admit it to yourself. It's
>> unnecessary to admit it to me. I already know that the odds are so
>> exquisitely low that I can bet against you ever becoming a top
>> financial services producer (even if you wanted to) with extreme
>> confidence.
>
>You're still a self im****tant little ****,  and what's more you seem to
be 
>one who works in a bank. This means that you're almost certainly about 
>to became an unemployed self-im****tant little ****.

Used to. Now I run my own fund. Very unlikely to become unemployed.
Thanks for caring. I've always rather liked you too, you know. Beneath
your pompous ass, you still have those delightful feet of clay.

Feel free to bugger off any time.