Blankfein should be worried simply because he knows how he is earning this money and is simply not telling the rest of us. HE IS EARNING THIS INCOME AT THE EXPENSE OF EVERYONE ELSE. This is, in fact, what TREASON means. When an individual or a firm put their own selfish interests ahead of the group, in this case that group being the American Society, he does so at the expense of this very same group. How is this any different than spying for the enemy, or being the enemy of Society to begin with? It isn't. It is exactly the same.

And yet Blankfein is grasping at "God's Will" straws in order to justify his own existence. The pattern behavior of the Goldman wives speaks volumes when they trample ahead in line past 'the little people' AT A CHARITY AUCTION. How are the morals any better at home than they already are at work? This is what mimiced behavior is all about. It is also the fine art of self incrimination that is unfolding here. There is simply nothing holy, or "God's Will", about stampeding past others, whether it is in financial markets using flash trading techniques and HFT Computers or through lines at charity events. The pattern behavior reveals exactly the same deficiency of thought for the rights of others.

How no one can manage to see the obvious nature of this behavior can only be attributed to wishful thinking, the result of payoffs and bribes to those in regulatory agencies who routinely display a form of public callousness to the financial health of the body politic collectively. This is exactly the same behavior exhibited by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for nearly a decade. The ethos is known widely and from History as simply "The Public be damned". How is this not evidence of Treason?

It is my sincerest wish that H.R. 1586 will be passed in the U.S. Senate, and if necessary for Constitutional purposes, that a Trial be held, in the Grand Watergate Tradition, to get to the bottom of a crime perpetrated by exactly the same folks who are receiving the benefit...that being Goldman Sachs itself, and to the exclusion of the rest of society.

Why we are off fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, risking life and limb to our sons and daughters, while this American Taliban Chief is allowed to roam free throughout our fair land? This is the simple proof that our system is designed purposefully for the benefit of those who 'service' investors, at the expense of the rest of us. If this is "God's Work", Blankfein either believes Americans are so stupid that they simply do not understand what God's Work actually entails, or his concept of God has been twisted by his devotion to his work at the expense of his God.

God cares not a whit about money. If he did he would say so in Scripture. The words are simply not there. It should be obvious to anyone that had Blankfein ever stepped foot in either Church or Temple, that he would know this, and clearly he does not. There simply is no Feast Day for three-card-monty players, though there is a Day of Atonement.

The banksters have fixed the wheel, and they know it. If it weren't for the AIG bailout, Goldman would have been toast, just like all the other too big and well connected to fail. The only reason they pulled the plug on Lehman and not Goldman was that no one wanted guys who worked for that fucking idiot Fuld to work in government. So the "smoother" Goldman crooks, like Rubin, Paulson Timmy G and their enabler Summers, run the show from DC. Here's hoping those Goldman guys (and gals) end up where they belong, doing hard time with Madoff. George Patton

Just wait the results on 2012, then they and this administration will understand clearly who cares for the tax payers money !,...

Lloyd Blankfein is worried about what, these guys will pick our pockets while taliking to the pay czar.
It's the your shoe is untied Jeffery theory.

The emptiest threat on the planet is Wall Streeters saying that if they get a super-fat paycheck, they'll quit and go to work for someone who'll pay them properly.

Let them quit. A handful might land on their feet at another firm.

But the vast majority will end up delivering pizza and collecting carts in a supermarket parking lot.

Goldman could lose their third most well-paid employees and not miss them because the firm's bench is so deep.

For most Goldman employees, the size of their paycheck is due to the overall quality of the firm, not because of their own intrinsic abilities.

And they know it. So if they leave, they're probably going to end up either unemployed or working for a firm that's nowhere as good as Goldman.

Feinberg should call their bluff.

There can't be any sympathy at all for Goldman. Should have been nationalized and broken up into a million pieces. Don't the door hit you in the ass you thieves.

Clawing back bonuses is the least of it. It's pretty clear that Goldman was playing both sides--they were betting against their mortgage tranches while selling them as safe investments. In the absence of Goldman people going to jail for this (or better yet, Goldman being forced to buy back its bad paper), nobody there should see a bonus.

Did anyone who has left comments here even read the entire article? This article is not about the greed of Wallstreet, but rather how the policies of Washington has created the low risk environment that allows for corporate greed. Wallstreet will only risk what it deems prudient, and without the security of government bailouts, much less risk will be prudient. Less risk usually equals less returns which equals less bonuses.

In response to the comments however, please review basic economics. Money is not a pie where if one person has more of the pie then others must have less. Money is created all the time, in fact creating a bigger pie. Just because someone is earning a large sum of money does not mean they are taking money out of the pocket of others. In fact, like the case of Bill Gates, they might be filling the pockets of others at an astronomical rate.

omg Lloyd Blankfein is worried!! he might not be able to buy another mansion in the hamptons!! f*ck tiny tim, this guy is hurting worse than anyone. we should all pray for him as he sits on his diamond encrusted platinum toilet and sh*ts on us all.