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Robbien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-17-08 10:52 PM Original message |
So Paulson's cronies get to pocket a 10% finders fee on the $700B bailout? |
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Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-17-08 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
1. Read this a few times....PLEASE |
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GardeningGal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-17-08 11:03 PM Response to Original message |
2. This is obscene. n/t |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-17-08 11:07 PM Response to Original message |
3. This is Financial Rape of the nation by the wealthy |
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Sydnie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-17-08 11:17 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. It is the only groupd of blivet's** base that he failed to hand enough to over |
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wordpix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 12:24 AM Response to Reply #3 |
18. Goldman Paulsen Sach's bailout sure is working! For McBushCo, that is |
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Cerridwen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-17-08 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
4. Bonuses for failure?! |
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Robbien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-17-08 11:24 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. They don't get it. They believe they are entitled to their resorts |
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Cerridwen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-17-08 11:36 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Yeah, the problem with their way of thinking is... |
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Robbien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-17-08 11:52 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. They even went on CNBC and said they don't plan on loaning any money, they plan on keeping the $700b |
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Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-17-08 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
6. "They" figure that we don't have the COURAGE to do the moral thing - |
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dmr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-17-08 11:30 PM Response to Original message |
8. This is obscene! Bonuses should go to the American taxpayer. |
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dailykoff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-17-08 11:43 PM Response to Original message |
10. Since they're also getting the other 90% |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-17-08 11:43 PM Response to Original message |
11. But. . .but. . .but. . .I thought that the bailout was a good thing, |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 08:29 AM Response to Reply #11 |
32. THANK GOD IT PASSED! |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-17-08 11:46 PM Response to Original message |
12. K & R...these people are in need of a major reality adjustment |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-17-08 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
13. ** It's not all bonus pay - don't get carried away *** |
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Cerridwen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 12:00 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Thanks, anigbrowl. |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 12:20 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Exactly. I'm totally against executives or traders pulling down fat bonuses after this fiasco. |
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wordpix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 12:28 AM Response to Reply #16 |
20. If investors want to buy stock in these wild spending corporations |
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dailykoff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 12:16 PM Response to Reply #16 |
35. Yes, thanks for the propaganda. |
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Cerridwen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-19-08 03:32 PM Response to Reply #35 |
39. Uh, yeah additional information is always useful. |
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Robbien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 12:41 AM Response to Reply #13 |
22. If say only $50b were for bonuses then that would be better? |
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dailykoff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 12:03 PM Response to Reply #13 |
33. Thank God their armies of syncophantic usurers are getting a piece |
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Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-17-08 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
15. KEEP in mind, that "back in the day" We used to actually manufacture things....n/t |
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Irish Girl (265 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 12:24 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Where do you think these greedy CEOs received their $200 Million Dollar bonuses from? |
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wordpix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 12:30 AM Response to Original message |
21. watch the stock market tank further on this news as investors come to understand the rape continues |
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bluedawg12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 12:42 AM Response to Original message |
23. What's 10% of $700 billion? |
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robinlynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 01:04 AM Response to Original message |
24. Jesus. And of course the article is in the Guardian, not a US paper..... |
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Shallah Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 01:35 AM Response to Original message |
25. We need to apply the Polluter Pays Principle - Those who profit should pay into the Superfund cleanu |
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machI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 06:22 AM Response to Original message |
26. Kick |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 07:48 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Do all 157 of your posts say 'kick'? |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 07:47 AM Response to Original message |
27. Shouldn't the Obama be harping on this NOW if we expect the criminal rape of America to stop???? |
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RadiationTherapy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 07:50 AM Response to Original message |
29. "Thank god it passed." |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 08:01 AM Response to Original message |
30. The Splurge is Working! |
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dailykoff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 12:41 PM Response to Reply #30 |
37. Good one. |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 08:27 AM Response to Original message |
31. If they insist on executive bonuses they should at least have the decency to grant them in the form |
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dailykoff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
34. And that's not even counting the actual finder's fees paid to Kashkari |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
36. You seem to be a bit surprised by this. It is exactly what we told you |
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bertman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-18-08 11:14 PM Response to Original message |
38. My rep is a Democrat, David Price, 20 yrs in Congress. He voted for this ABOMINATION. |
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