[April Lexington]

If they had thought that asking for bailout money would result in slashing their compensation they would never have lived so close to the edge. The banks would not be teetering today. They thought they could just loot and have Uncle Sam clean up the mess. Now its too late. The banks need the money to survive and the executives have to take the pay cuts or hand over the jobs the affirmative action crowd who thinks $500,000 is a lot of money.

Check mate! Socialists 1; Capitalists 0

[Travis McGee]

“If they had thought that asking for bailout money would result in slashing their compensation they would never have lived so close to the edge. The banks would not be teetering today. They thought they could just loot and have Uncle Sam clean up the mess. Now its too late.”

Good point.

[meadsjn]

Check mate! Socialists 1; Capitalists 0

Really? What capitalists do you know of on Wall Street?

A capitalist is someone who puts their own money at risk in a venture in hopes of making a profit.

Wall Street is stacked bottom to top with socialists who never made an honest dollar of their own, those who convince others to invest their money, then promptly steal it or mismanage it into the red in toxic investments.

No, what you see now is two sets of socialists, feuding over total control of Other Peoples' Money.