[rrdog]

I hope this is something we can all agree cannot stand.

[SkyDancer]

Rush had a good explanation of how those bonus’ were to work, then too, the CEO of AIG is a government appointee ...

[ml/nj]

The bonuses of course were in poor taste

Could you explain for the less savvy among us why they were in poor taste.

ML/NJ

[Sleeping Freeper]

Sounds like something Hugo Chavez would say. It’s a sorry state this country is in...

[PittsburghAfterDark]

Soon Chucky Shumer will be for the quartering of troops in your home too.

It’s only the third amendment, no one has any lobbying groups to prevent it so hell, why not?

Burn it Chucky! Burn that Constitution!

[edcoil]

I'm just jealous, they got their piece of the bail out and I am still waiting for mine!

[conservativeinferno]

What an ass!

[nufsed]

If the government is going to bail a company out, I don't want my taxes to go for bonuses to anyone in that company. I don't know why it's so hard to get all the so-called capitalists here to agree, if you fail, if we help you, you don't have money to spread around for bonuses.

Bonuses should be contingent upon a company not going bankrupt or needing taxpayer bailouts. If they are not, set the regulation before you provide the funds. Better yet, no bailout.

[mkcc30]

All these idiots have already thrown the Constitution in the trash. They are our enemy plain and simple.
We are heading for war and if you don’t want to be a part of it then get out of the freakin’ way! I don’t want it but obviously they do why else would they be bent on our destruction?!

[cripplecreek]

That all depends, unions have contracts too. Is it really any different.

I say they should be pressured to renegotiate.

[LukeL]

What most people don’t understand is many executives make very little in terms of a salary, but get the bulk of their pay in bonuses. What is the difference between making a million dollars in bonuses or making 100,000 per month?

[KoRn]

Charles Schumer is an enemy within. He would have fit right into the Soviet Bureaucracy back in the day. He hates the country our founders established and left for us.

His vision of what this country should be will be no country I will accept.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Once you let the camel in your tent, or the tiger in your house....there really is no good way to arrange things.

The bailout was bad. It’s only going to lead to messier situations.

[4Speed]

Dummy Senators.....IRS is ALREADY Taxing the Bonus’s at ..what?...35 %
They are getting the Govts. fair share. Americas are not STUPID...i can tell the diffo of the STIMULUS waste from the BONUS waste...example below...
165,000,000
1,200,000,000,000

Quiz: Which is the BIGGEST PROBLEM ?

[Gator113]

Love the title.

[Brilliant]

Chuck Schumer sure is an arrogant bastard, isn’t he?

[Bahbah]

As Mark Levin just explained, the prohibition against ex post facto laws applies solely to criminal matters.

Not that I think the Congress should do this anyway.

[Myrddin]

The "bonuses" were "retention" bonuses. The employees who received them were on notice that they would be terminated. The company needed their expertise and agreed to pay them a "retention" bonus so they would stay with the company do perform their valuable services instead of seeking other employment immediately. Now the politicians want to grandstand to steal the money that was agreed compensation for these employees to remain on the job instead of leaving immediately. The employees should sue the hell out of the company and politicians if they are deprived of the compensation that was contractually agreed.

[mountainlion]

Suspend government instead, what good have they done?

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

Schumer is either a loud mouth fool or asleep at the wheel. Was he not on the Senate committee that forced banks to give loans that didn’t qualify? How dare he threaten vendettas against individuals from his Senate seat. We are a country of laws; his threat to pass a loan against one person is very frightening. The Senate passed this stimulus bill and is responsible for the known consequences.

[airborne]

You and I agree.

I can’t speak for some of the others here.

It’s been a sadly eye opening day reading some Freeper comments.