Should Andrew J. Hall get his bonus? It all depends on whether you like paying $4 dollars plus for gas because some jackass artificially inflates the price of crude oil through speculation hype. Did you like paying $4.00 - $4.50 a gallon? If yes, give Andrew his bonus. If not, let's find the rat and send him back to the UK. Talk about an illegal immigrant - this guy screws the USA and then thinks American taxpayers are going to pay him a bonus.
Andrew, if you're listening, Americans don't like getting screwed. Citigroup owes us $45 BILLION DOLLARS. And, you don't get to take a penny of it after you played us at the gas pump. You and your kind are the worse kind of con artists. Go home! Try your games for the Brits and see how long you get to keep your home there.
Since Andrew isn't listening and more importantly, caring about his moral responsibility, the real question here isn't whether he gets his dirty bonus but rather whether the USA will change the way speculators create wealth. As we've seen, this thing that is called capitalism serves the interests of a very select few who are enabled by the lack of governance to swindle the middle class out of its savings. That Hank Paulson, a Wall Street insider, manipulated the US Treasury into giving nearly a billion dollars to fat-cat Wall Street bankers on the pretext that he was saving the economy for Main Street should anger all Americans, particularly those whose retirement investments were irretrievably lost and not restored. That Paulson continues to rationalize his criminal acts to Congress as justified by the degree of financial crisis is an insult.