Bailout, shmailout. Executive pay still safe.

re: Bailout, shmailout. Executive pay still safe.

jeff smith — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:30:27 GMT

i think we need to go the top bosses house and there banking acc and make them pay for it

re: Bailout, shmailout. Executive pay still safe.

geoff — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:26:53 GMT

i thought that's why the terrorists hit the twin towers, to cripple the economy. we don't need terrorists to pummel us back to the stone age! we have our own citizens to do this for us, and get away scot free from robbing everyone blind. what I think is funny is that in order for the companies to grow, they say they need to give huge compensations/pay to hire and retain the smartest and brightest........ just to see the CEO's lie to the stockholders and the public, and to flush the companies down the toilet, while they walk away millionaires. ummm, alrighty then

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Laura Colquhoun — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:40:17 GMT

These politians and executives are all in the upper class and have no idea how the lower to middle class live. Some of us can not get medical insurance because we can not pay for it. It is our choice to either eat or have medical insurance. What would happen if all politians and executives had to pay for their own medical insurance. The politians and executives already have enough money so why should they get everything. The next time a company wants to rise capital they will have a hard time because the middle class will not buy any company stocks. We are tried of always being the one to lose the most and we have no more to give.

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Jerry — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:58:14 GMT

I wonder if the goverment will HELP the American ppl buy dopping some of the cost of home heating oil and gas.

Show us that you are willing to give something back to the consumer.

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A concerned Reader — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:59:06 GMT

What can we expect when we elect leaders based on elections decided by supreme courts and not by popular vote (Gore vs Bush) and again by being scared from the make belief terrorists and and I am ready slogans, even usig reganomics dialog "there you go again John" (Biden vs Pallin). Carl Row is the teacher behind all this, these people don'd give a damn about the country as long as their candidate wins. America has already lost, what good is a win in Iraq.

Hohn McCains vote catcher is, "Obama wants to sit face to face and negotiate with Iranian president who wants to wipe out the nation of Israel from the map".

Where is the concern for America. But if we the people fall for this kind of talk, we deserve leaders who need not care about America.

When the congress gave control of peoples pension funds to these rouge institutions, American people became helpless. There is no way these people are going to behave, never.

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John — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:06:06 GMT

Something that I find really amazing lately is that people expect the governement to fix and take care of everything for them. I dont remember hearing people talking about the golden parachutes when times were good; actually, more people that I work with in corporate america talked about how great it would be for it to be them. I agree that everything in the economy is a mess, but we have built this over years and years. And we are constantly hearing about the average american getting screwed. Sure, times are bad and getting worse, but people need to wake up and finally start taking responsibility for themselves a bit. Sure, there was some predatory lending, and greed on wall street as well, but let's not lose sight of the fact that the cause of this whole credit crisis is that no one is willing to take chances with the mortgage backed securities (in some way shape or form). The reason for that is because of defaulting mortgages. Why do we have so many of these? Because these "unfairly" treated average americans were greedy and ignorant. When you are making $50,000 a year, NO you cannot afford a $750,000 house. If someone tells you that you can, then shame on you for not having the intelligence to realize that you cannot. When they told you that "house prices will always go up" and you can refinance, etc. then shame on your for not thinking for more than a second that if something seems too good to be true, it is because it is. Wake up america, and stop living well beyond your means and expecting to be able to blame someone else.

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Jan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:10:08 GMT

Why don't we aggressively pursue these greedy monsters for what they truly are...financial terrorists! Lets pursue them under the Homeland Security laws. They have commited treason against our county and our people.

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paul — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:50:25 GMT

I believe Karl Marx would be proud of our Congress/Senate/White House, et.al.

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Kofi — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:52:53 GMT

Massive tax revolt! Starve this beast!

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kofi — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:47:04 GMT

Yeah, that's it, write your congressman. And buy more stocks. Man, the nobility must be trembling. And the French are wimps? Really?