QUESTION: WHAT GREW FASTER THAN THE FEDERAL DEFICIT IN 2009

MULTIPLE CHOICES:

A: Brad Pitts beard

B: Sarah Palin's ego

C: Obama's negative poll results

D: Tiger's fairway wood

E: Lloyd Blankfein's annual bonus
 
 Hint:  Goldman Sachs, the world’s richest investment bank, could be about to pay its chief executive a bumper bonus of up to $100 million in defiance of moves by President Obama to take action against such payouts.

One bankster in Davos for the World Economic Forum (WEF) told The Times yesterday  “This is Lloyd flipping the bird at Obama.”

Q: What grew faster than Lloyd Blankfein's bonus in 2009?

A: Public distrust of Wall Street bankers.

Q: What do Tiger Woods, the Taliban and Lloyd Blankfein have in common?

A: $100 million of income per annum (ball swinger,  opium ball sellers and swinging dickhead).