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   nomad2112 said, about 1 month ago

   Is that a chain or a string of loop holes to the left?

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   senorbullwinkle said, about 1 month ago

   Now that’s a new one, they caught a republican with his pants ON, this time.

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   Kylop said, about 1 month ago

   Lisa,
   I’m impressed.

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   charlie555 said, about 1 month ago

   ANandy

   Amen.

   Ask not for whom the trap springs, it springs for thee.

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   Jim said, about 1 month ago

   Oh snap !

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   scottfreitas said, about 1 month ago

   True cartoon. Any business that accepts government bailouts or their equivalent is just a twin to Marxism, more at home in the old Soviet Union than America.

   And if there are bigger, more worthless parasites in existence than all those who pretend to “work” in the financial sector, they are no doubt wriggling underground inside a corpse somehwhere…

   So long as Osama doesn’t try to cap salaries on businesses NOT involved with taking taxpayer dollars, I fail to see any reason he should be stopped. These would-be Soviet businesses and banks need to realize that when you sell your soul to the Devil, you always end up getting burned…

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   cjr53 said, about 1 month ago

   Good, that is my money and your money these selfish CEOs are grubbing from our pockets.

   If they ran the company correctly, they wouldn’t be needed to grub money from our Federal Treasury, our pockets.

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   NeoconMan said, about 1 month ago

   Laugh it up, you peons. We’ll return a conservative Republican majority next year and get all our bonuses back.

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   dtroutma said, about 1 month ago

   They’re still only using a “Have-a-Heart” trap instead of d-Con. If the Republi-con hadn’t taken away restraints, and corrections had been started by 2003 when the handwriting was on the wall, we might have saved the economy. But Bush twiddled his thumbs as these dudes fiddled the books.

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    Kylop said, about 1 month ago

    NeoconMan…please. You’re only pretending you’re not getting you’re bonus now. Going a year without a bonus would give you a heart attack.

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    mark.dillon said, about 1 month ago

    …by his own petard!

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    chfields said, about 1 month ago

    Amazing how selective memory works….Left wing organizations such as ACORN (lets not forget Obama was their lawyer) that sued the big banks forcing them to lower the lending standards so the poor people could buy houses too….Who out there actually thinks any bank/banker would lend money to people who can’t pay it back without having a gun held to their heads. This is what caused the mess we are in. Now I don’t condone the greed and deception, however, the people who took the loans knowing full well they couldn’t pay it have to take responsibility. I think it’s nuts that those of us who actually pay our bills should have to foot the bill. Now, the bonus’s at companies that were failing and needed to be bailed out is incredulous, but the government telling people how much they get paid is a very slippery slope….We need less government and more of letting free enterprise work. If you fail, then so be it…there are plenty to pick up the slack….

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    Magnaut said, about 1 month ago

    CEO should read WTP…we the people that’s who TARP trapped

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    scottfreitas said, about 1 month ago

    Actually, I’m with Magnaut. We The Folks HAVE been caught in a trap way moreso than just a few CEOs…

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    a.c.d said, about 1 month ago

    Actually I dont see a problem here. Forever companies have told us that these bonuses and salaries are approved by the shareholders. But the fact is that the shareholders are easy to keep in the dark, I mean ask anyone at Tyco, WorldComm, Eron, etc. The only person who can dictate the rules is the majority shareholder, who regularly would fire people, cancel bonuses or cut pay. It just so happens that the majority shareholder is now the US government, which is bad for the board because they now have a shareholder that is going to do what the people want, which is to cut pay. I say, kudos to the US for finally stepping in and putting a stop to this pay maddness. We in Europe are a larger and stonger economy than the US, and we pay our top people 1%-10% of what you Americans pay yours and we dont have retention issues nore problems generating profit.

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    ahab said, about 1 month ago

    chfields, proof? I thought not!

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    parkersinthehouse said, 28 days ago

    hey waitaminit

    chfields sounds a little liiiiiike …

    (misuse of incredulous -)