I understand what you are saying but I'm tired on the 'devil made me do it' stuff - the government made me do it and the unions made me do it. The leaders of finance and the auto industry took away a pile of bonus performance money. Passing the buck on their screw ups does not cut it any longer. Their screw ups is why we have Obama.
You are only confirming what I said before. DOes it bother you at all that you repeat word-for-word what Obama says?
Bonus money is a way, which apparently has worked, to make you angry at corporations --- so that you will accept the gov rescue.
FYI: there is not an economist in the world who would not laugh at the suggestion that bonuses can create an economic crisis. This is nonsense.
It is because conservatives like you don't bother to learn how their country works and swallow anti-capitalist propaganda instead that we could counter Obama only with MacCain.
You have what you wanted in the White House: your friend and an an enemy of "fat cats," "bonuses," "BP..." Enjoy. Just don't complain in a few years and don't tell your friends, "I just did not know."