[benjamin032]

What private? This administration is taking huge strides towards privatizing all industry. The banks were, in part, forced to take the money, not allowed to pay it back early, and are now being told how to compensate their executives. I agree that, if they took the money from tax payers, they should be subject to whatever strings are attached. I do not think those strings should be longer then the terms of the loan, and they should not reach into businesses that did not take any money.
Currently the Government is looking into regulating pay for ANY business that is otherwise federally regulated.

[org.whodat]

You sound like a broken record, repeating talking points.

Now read slowly, the POS executives that worked at those failed banks and AIG can pay themselves whatever they wish, just as soon as they pay the money back. Until then they and you can stop whining about it. They should have been closed and the bankruptcy attorneys called in. Then let them whine about their unearned salaries. I don't believe in welfare and I damn sure don't believe in rewarding failure.

[Soothesayer9]

“The banks were, in part, forced to take the money, not allowed to pay it back early”

- Um, what?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124455528999797923.html

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

READ the article.