OK, maybe I am too cynical

27 Feb 2013 22:20 #1 by Blazer Bob
Perhaps it is my Occam's razor that is broken. In any case I am sure it is entirely legal.

"Did Citigroup Pay Jack Lew a Government-Job Bounty? -




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So, when it comes to Jack Lew's Citigroup contract, there seem to be a couple choices for interpretation: Option A is that Lew was a savvy negotiator with sufficient leverage to get a clause in his contract that prevented him from being punished financially for going back to government, a thing he wanted to do anyway. Option B is that Citigroup, like other banks (and the federal government!), likes to reward people who sacrifice some of their financial comfort to head into the public sector as a matter of principle, and so gave Lew a preferential contract clause that would let him keep his bonus money if he left. Option C is that Citigroup came up with a scheme whereby it would give Lew a bounty for getting an important government job, on the theory that he would remember the favor the next time it came to bail out the banks.


Maybe my Occam's razor is broken, but I don't see Option C as the likeliest of the three scenarios. But again, it's possible I'm being too charitable.
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27 Feb 2013 22:31 #2 by otisptoadwater
Bob, you ask too many specific questions that have already been cloaked by the Obama administration. Shut up, sit down, and accept that the Gubment knows what is best for you :sarcasm:

I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.

"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford

Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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