Calvin Trillin: The Wall Street whiners

Pub date November 20, 2009
SectionBruce Blog

U.S. WILL ORDER PAY CUTS AT

FIRMS WITH BAILOUT AID

–The New York Times

The government has moved to intervene

To make the pay scale slightly less obscene.

The Wall Street types consider this unfair.

Tney say they earned their money fair and square,

And 20 million, say, is only middling

For someone who’s so good at money fiddling.

Of course, if things again go not as planned,

They’re back to Washington with hat in hand.

These fiddlers do deserve some admiration:

They’ve found themselves a win-win situation. B3