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| Bankers Enjoy $5000 Brunches in NYC; Don't Care That They Trashed Economy |
| 2009-03-16 |
| An otherwise vapid NYT article about the new trend, dance club brunches. Unremarkable except for the last two paragraphs: As for how he and his fellow Wall Streeters could still afford such afternoons, he said: "We all made so much money in the past five years, it doesn’t matter." Yup. They happily drove America's economy off the cliff, knowing full well what they were doing. But who cares? They made a ton of cash, and aren't affected by the consequences of their actions. Why shouldn't they have done what they did. A 29-year-old man who works for a large investment management firm and was at Bagatelle’s brunch one recent Saturday and at Merkato 55’s the next, put it another way: "If you’d asked me in October, I’d say it’d be a different situation, and I don’t think I’d be here. Then the government gave us $10 billion." Makes me so mad I could spit. Bonus quote: Moments later, a striking woman standing 5 feet 11 made her way past the doorman. As she approached the host, Mr. Laba waved him over and exchanged a few quiet words with him. "I wanted to make sure he wasn’t sending her away,” Mr. Laba said. "I’m fully booked, but she’s someone I want to keep in the restaurant." What she had going for her, he said, was being stunning, sophisticated and African-American. "It’s all about diversity," Mr. Laba added. "Euros, Muslims, everything goes." Racist. I'm out of spit at the moment. |
| Posted by:gromky |