Question of the Day: Should the Names of Those Who Got Bonuses Go Public?

Yes publish the names and addresses too

No – they should be made known to the IRS – and the 90% tax collected – along with the other $100′s of thousands back taxes owed by these receipients of bonuses! IRS needs to get more aggressive in pursuing back taxes. Maybe we wouldn’t have to keep printing so much money the dollar value becomes nil.

No. Someone’s child is going to get killed over this and it’s just not worth it. The names should not, under any case, be released; lives could be ruined.

Absolutely!!!!! If they are afraid, well so is the vast majority of American people because they have lost their jobs, their 401 K’s, perhaps their homes and who knows what else. Why reward the people who helped put us where we’re at?????

No, the names should not be published. The anger we see from senators is so much political posturing.

What purpose would posting the names serve? Only a miniscule number of people would know these people and they probably already suspect their friend was one who received a bonus. Approval to pay the bonuses was either directly or indirectly given by a representative of the administration, and as the Pres said yesterday, “the buck stops there”. It’s clear to me who’s ultimately responsible for the bonus flap. You can watch him on Leno tonight.

It’s clear to me who’s ultimately responsible for the bonus flap. You can watch him on Leno tonight. Joe in Atlanta | Mar 19, 2009 7:13:47 PM
You are wrong – Joe – but you must get information from FIXNEWS!!!!

No. They were given the chance (by Republicans who have been anti-regulation forever)to gain financially and they did. Lowdown, but I wonder which one of the “Hell, yes!” people would take those bonuses themselves and run like hell.

Oh GIVE ME A BREAK! Those people who received our tax money did so for selling hedge insurance at an insurance company. And apparantly they did a good job. It was not their fault that congress made their job leagal in 2000.
Making insurance salesmen/saleswomen a scapegoat for a bad economy is just lunacy.
The finger pointing by Congressmen makes me sick! I do not see any of them standing up and taking responsibility for this fiasco!
And Republicans point at Gietener and saying they are mad at him? He JUST STARTED trying to fix the mess they got us into.
Release the names to a bunch of lunatics? What have we become….

Absolutely, their names should be made public. We, the American taxpayers, have a right to know who we paid for services that helped bring our economy to its knees!!!

Absolutely, without question. There should not be any debate about this at all.

Absolutely not. It’s the employer who offered the bonuses. This hasn’t been called greed until now. For the most part, from what we’ve been told, these executives are doing “the right thing”, giving the money back and for those that don’t, the IRS and Congress will make sure they are charged 99% of their money in taxes. This is how it’s supposed to work – our legislators are working for us (hopefully)?

Of course they should be made public. If that was done, there would be no need to try and recover the money. The shame and harassment of these individuals would force them to refuse or return the money, and if it didn’t, they would have earned it thru suffering.

HEY CUOMO, READ THIS GUY!
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-controlled companies that started the financial mess we are in, are set to give $1 million bonuses to some of their executives. These two companies were bailed out by our government at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plan to do the same thing AIG did with their tax-money bailout – give some executives $1million bonuses.
Don’t let it happen!
Please send an e-mail to your senators telling them not to approve these bonuses! The four largest recipients of political donations by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from 1989 through 2008 were Sen. Chris Dodd ($133,900), Sen. John Kerry ($111,000), President Barack Obama ($105,849), and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ($75,550).

No, they should NOT be made available to the public OR congress. Too many angry and unstable people with guns out there. What they did was not illegal, just unethical. But then, there are a lot of people out there who are unethical.

hell yes and more

It was Bush that gave AIG its first $120 Billion without Congress’ approval or any stings attached. AND – it was NOT part of the first stimulus package signed last November!!! Why don’t we get the money from BUSH and Cheney (especially Cheney and his connections to Halliburton and their subsidiaries that don’t pay US taxes but get all kinds of no-bid US Defense Contracts!!!

The definition of bonus is additional gratuity for a job well done. AIG rewarded the masterminds of the collapse of AIG and they get WHAT? Publish all names of those who have not returned the checks UNCASHED and prosecute the idiots who signed the checks.

Don’t think so. If any of the rest of us gives Congress a wedge will we be happy to have our name braodcast to the world? These guys and gals signed contracts and if contracts are now illegal what makes any of us think any contract we sign will be honored.
This mess is the result of an incompetent congress and they are playing folks like a fiddle to deflect their neglegence.

No, because it sets a terrible precedence of invasion of privacy. This is a public company until the govt decides it wants to completely run it. People should be more concerned about the infringement of privacy rights than getting their thrills off of being angry at AIG employees. This is the bigger concern about releasing names and salaries. Be angry about Congress and the Obama Administration which passed the stimulus bill under the ruse of exigent circumstances which allowed the loophole.
Where are the civil rights lawyers and organizations screaming to save privacy rights?

oops, i should have stated this is a non-govt company.

No, the names should not be made public. The level of outcry from people making threats has been above and beyond common human decency. How about making public the names of those threatening these lives with piano wire and the like? The money was a contractual bonus and above all else, it’s only money!

No they shouldn’t be made public. These were contracts set up long before the bailouts. This has been going on forever, only now we’re realizing how costly they are in this day and time. I’m an educator. I was given a “bonus” (to be paid after the state test results come in.) to make sure the students are able to pass the test. Who would have thought!!! These execs are paid to STAY where they are…..it’s part of the business game. Like paying the students to stay in school. Yep, it’s happening.

Yes , but this is pecisley why we have relgion…….. Without it, these corrupt people would be promptly elliminated, I’m affraid.

No. The villains aren’t the AIG employees but Geitner, Sen. Dodd, and the rest of the democrat bozos who voted for the loophole to give AIG bonuses. Now they’re shocked, SHOCKED, that AIG paid bonuses!!! All of the democrats are a bunch of lying hypocrites just trying to put the blame on others while they are the reason for the bonuses in the first place!!! LYING HYPOCRITES!!!!

When we go all out to protect terrorist, why would we putour own fellow citizens at risk. No No NO use your brais stupid people

yes……………..

No, I do not need the names of the disgusting filthy rich people who took these bonuses. I just want all of them to return the money immediately! I worked hard to pay the taxes that went to AIG to pay those damn bonuses! If AIG had gone under, these people wouldn’t have a job, much less a nice fat bonus. And those so called contracts to pay those bonuses, would have meant absolutely NOTHING! AIG failed because of those greedy rich people there who took their fat salaries, stock options and outrageous bonus’s. Who cares who they are! Just give me back my money….I could care less if you have to sell ONE of your vacation homes to survive!

You better bet ya the names should be exposed if the congress won’t keep tabs on them someone in America that is a tax payer will. There we go again who was watching the barn. no one and they stole the beef. I say the Gov would have been better off giving the money to the American people.

No,the names of those AIG employees who received bonuses should not be made public. There are too many crazy people out there. And as mad as I am about the greed of these people I do not want them or their families killed or hurt by some nut.I would say to them that I am angry because their “bonus” is more than I make in two years.. and I have a good job..

The names and address’ should be posted publicly! These theives of Taxpayer money are as bad as the FOOLISH Congress that gave it to them. These CLOWNS should run and hide The Conress/Dems all hide behind laws they produced, yet they dont have the Balls to stand up and face the average joe they helped put outa work. Their like the President,,, Posers and Jokers

No. These are people. They have families. This is all so wrong. Put your torches away. Witch hunts are not the way. Judge not lest ye be judged.

Dr. Micheal Savage has been saying all along what a JOKE this deceptive Pres./Congress is and NOW we the people are paying the tab. This new Gov. is already showing “It will fail” Without a doubt or second thought these names AND address’ should be made public! Remember that while watching the Poor excuse of a President on”Leno” tonite showing his face on TV instead of doing his job and CORRECTING THE ISSUE NOW!!!!!!!

I don’t think it is entirely their fault – the system of rewarding the so called “gurus” or financial wizards will have to be reviewed. I think the days of excessive bonuses had a place in our system in the last century but those days are truly over. People are more aware and well informed and quite capable of making good decisions.
Can one get rid of human greed by naming and shaming and producing their home addresses? The answer is no. But what the government ought to do is to look through the loopholes and make excessive bonuses a criminal offence.
I am a strong believer of if you have a calling and are good at what you do. The reward you get including monetary reward will be more than enough.
Let us call it what it is what these people in responsible positions keep on doing is no different from a lot of the criminals we have in jail. They should be behind bars

There is nothing to be gained by making the names public. The names should be provided to the IRS and the IRS should then audit these people for the past ten years. All back taxes should be collected with interest and criminal proceedings should be initiated for all that are delinquent. We are a nation of laws. Use the laws that existed at the time of the bonuses. It does no good to write a “feel good” law that will not pass muster. Congress is the problem.

Yes. If they are not publicly humiliated then this will just happen again and again. In the future this will be a warning to anyone else participating in this kind of fraudulent behavior. You reap what you sew folks.

Not only made public but position with company, how long they worked for company and if they are no longer with company, date of resignation or firing, etc.
As for the 90% tax, that seems to give our government way too much power and it just proves how government can do whatever it whats to the people. What the hell do we have courts for if the government can tax whoever they want, whenever they want.
I think we should see who got paid off first when the Tarf money was given to AIG. I think someone will see a connection between who was placed in a position of authority within AIG by the government and who was paid who first, (MS). That seems much more important than the bonuses which should have been given in stock options.

Yes, their name should be public. Transparancy is what we promised from this administration. These people did not care about our nation. They are dishonest citizens. They chose their own lexury life over our common good. So yes, it should be public.

Yes, they should be made public and the IRS must make it a priority to audit their returns to make sure they are taxed on it.
The company wouldn’t have been paid the bonuses if they didn’t get the bail out money.

Instead of focusing on AIG how about disclosing the names of the real villians: the members of congress who failed to do their job.

It would quell a little of our anger to publish the names of the “greedy, self serving and arrogant people”. But lets think a moment about that. We really want to save ourselves from having to look in the mirror. It is so much easier to blame “them” than to look at our role in this whole mess. We love money too. We love “cheap” goods made from, who cares, anywhere!! It felt sooo good to get that house even though our deep inner self told us we really couldn’t afford it. We voted for the incompetent leadership that we have. We’ve enjoyed the lullabye that said “go to sleep America — every little thing gonnna be alright—your insured!!!! It’s wake up time for all of us; it’s time to share in the blame and shame game. Let the government make the “insurance scum ” lives miserable. (taxes, audits..), but lets not forget we helped create the culture we’re living in.

No! How many member of Congress would have turned down a legitimate bonus. How many us would have? Congress gave them the loophole and now they are trying to make the public think they have the high ground. Bull!!!! If they make the names public their lives may be in danger.

YES – money was given publicly – it should be public info about who got what. It’s only fair; we’re picking up the tab on these bailouts.

How many of you jerks out there would give back a bonus if your company gave you one? How would you like to have your name released to the public? These people had a legal contract. We are attacking citizens and letting terriost go. Barney Frank (Elmer Fudd) makes me sick. They have you aholes paying attention to 160 million while the politicians are spending trillions. The American people are so stupid. Do you realize the Dems put this in the bill to make these bonus’s possible. Maybe they should actually read these Bills before they vote for them. This is just the beginning. Wait till you see what the carbon tax is going to cost you. Also if you think healthcare is expensive now wait until it is free you jerks.

Absolutly YES YES YES, and YES

If one watched the full congressional hearing of Ed Liddy, I can’t imagine any intelligent human being would request that the money be returned.
I can only imagine that the AIG employees must truly understand how our soldiers in Iran must feel…hard working folks trying to rebuild something that their leaders screwed up and are getting no kudos for jobs well done.
But you should be thoroughly ashamed of our country’s leaders after watching the Liddy hearing, what a bunch complete idiots. Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reed are whats wrong with our government. In 2006, the Democratic government promised change…well they gave it to us and I want no more.

yes i’d like to know who got some of my hard earned money they are greedy people and should be identified.

HECK NO! NO WAY! I don’t understand how anyone could even consider revealing names! And I’m unemployed. What are people thinking?! And taking 90% of these bonuses through taxes is ludicrous! People are looking for someone to blame the state of the economy on, but they should look deeper.

Yes. Why not.
Can’t beleive some use the danger excuse. They surely don’t have any fear when they put our money in their pockets.

Yes, decidedly! If they return the money in full, then I would reconsider my vote. But until then, definitely YES!!! They should have calculated the consequences of their actions when they drove the company into the ground, and visited the shame of their actions on their families. The sins of the father fall on the children.

YES, THEY SHOULD RELEASE THEIR NAMES. WE ALL ARE SUFFERING. WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE.
Also citigroup given all that money to buy furniture. give us all a break.

yes indeed…..

Yes they should. The Fed owens 80% of AIG and the government is ran by the people, so we have a right to know.

If you aren’t ashamed of what you’re doing, you would have no reason to hide it, right?

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssss!!!!!!!!!

I do not think the names need to be published! The government has delt with the problem. The only people who need those names are those who are taxing the bonus money and investigators
responsible for keeping track.
To publish those names would be to put
those people at risk when it is not
necessary.

If a person returns their bonus payment keep their names private. If a person believes that they actually earned the bonus payment, they should be willing to have their name made public.

I agree that the IRS, at least, should be given the names, and their tax returns should get personal attention. If these people are so proud of their actions, they shouldn’t mind getting a little publicity. They may have to spend some of their millions to see that their families are protected from harm, but money doesn’t seem to be an object with these people.

Yes, they should be made public. These individuals are destroying the publics confidence in are financial institutions. People are not going to return and begin investing as long as these greedy incompetent so called leaders are around. They run these institutions into the ground and think they still deserve bonuses. What a joke. And how could our leaders in government think that the public was not going to be outraged knowing these bonuses were likely to be paid out of our tax dollars.

Yes. The individual appearing before congress said he was afraid that these employees might be in danger because of some of the e-mails he has received. Well, the public is mad as hell and these financial managers should know how mad the public is and how their actions have hurt many americans and the country. They do not simply get to walk away like nothing has happened. People are hurting because of their irresponsible action. THEY CANNOT AND MUST BE ALLOWED TO HIDE FROM THE PUBLIC SHAME THEY SHOULD FEEL.

Yes the names should be released to the public because the money for the bonuses came from taxpayer dollars to a company owned by the public. But don’t stop there. Also include all the names of the public officials, elected and appointed, whether knowingly or ignorantly, who allowed the bonuses to become a reality.

Two words: Atlas Shrugged. Two more words: tax boycott.

Lets give them a chance to give the money back. If not, then release the names. Maybe all the politicians names should be released as well, for giving them the money to start with & for all the wrong they have done over the years.

no. there’s no reason why the names should be shared with the public. The real blame lies with Senator Dodd and The Treasury. They are the ones who insisted that the Stimulus bill include the bonus compensation. If you listened to CEO Liddy’s testimony; he stated that AIG was in regular communication with The Treasury department re: The bailout funds and Treasury was more than aware of the bonus payout. We need to focus more on term limits.

The funds should be recovered but congress is violating the constitution when they impose a punitive tax on a legal transaction which they approved.
There are legal ways for recovery which should be explored.

Absolutely they should be released to the public and they bear the shame from their friends, family and general public. They have been given time to give back the bonuses and if they have chosen to keep them knowing how wrong it is then they have to pay the price.

Absolutely. I think shame is is a powerful motivator. There should be a list of names of those who were greedy but after being shamed decided to give the money back.

Indeed.

This public fury could lead to a tradgedy if the names are revealed. Just get the money back. The fury is enough to make executives think twice about pulling this kind of robbery again.

Absolutely not. If Congress gets the bonus money back maybe they can donate it to the SPECIAL OLYMPICS!

Even if offered this money under the terms of a pre-existing contract they should have had the simple human decency to say no.
They are not going to be hurting for a crust of bread any time soon.
Unlike those who trusted them and invested in their products.

These people stole money and therefore should be FORCED to pay it back

No! Silly Obama puppets. You’re going to get someone killed. Acquiring names is one thing. Wait until the publicity subsides. BTW, Barak just signed a new book deal a few months ago. Greasing his pockets after his presidency. How is this that any different? They are all corrupt. Let’s see, increase 2009 spending by 1.5 Trillion or so, worry about 164 million in bonuses? Which is really an issue? Should corporations be rewarding those that are incompetent? No. Let them fail like they should. They shouldn’t have bailed them out in the first place. Issue solved.
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Steven in IN you sound like someone with an alternative. I am interested in yyour suggestion – regarding a better approach for addressing the current issue. I am assuming you still have a job to go to .

I don’t see what we would benefit from the names of those selfish, greedy, executives. The companies who gave them these massive bonuses were negligent as well as our government who created a loophole in the bailout plan. Did they all really think we would not find out about these massive bonuses? I think it shows how incompentent Congress is to allow this loophole in the Bailout plan. Instead of giving all taxed money from hardworking people to the already well-off CEOs, they should have divided that money and given back to the hard-working-class people! Then, people would go out and spend money, and the economy would get better.

NO. These were mostly retention bonuses put in place to keep employees from bailing when the going got tough. The people who agreed to stay with AIG to fix the mess should not be punished. The other option would have been to quit and I’m sure there were plenty that did so.
The names I would like to see publicized are those of the members of Congress who passed a law before the Christmas break of 2000 that allowed the use of Credit Default Swaps in the manner that has caused much of this economic mess. I’m sure they would want credit for the huge profits it made possible. Now they should be held responsible for the losses as well.

yes print the names and amounts of $–people say that someone may get hurt what about the families that lost their jobs and have health issues? they are hurting already

Not only YES, but HELL YES!

Yes, why not. What do they care? They will only continue to stuff their pockets anyway!

Yes. Taxpayers have a right to know where their money is going. What happened to a more transparent government? The name of the executives responsible for the demise of their company should have a public “reference” so they don’t get hired to destroy another company leaving more employees on the unemployment lines. What happenned to pay for “merit”?
They should be protected – maybe they can go into hiding …

Get the money back somehow, but do not make their names public. I’m as outraged as anybody, but this has consumed far too much of the news cycle and I’m afraid some wacko will decide to take matters into his hands and do something stupid to the execs or (more tragically) their families. There are just too many loons running around, who want their 15 minutes of fame.

Yes, actually this is public information anyway!
How dare them to even take the money. Let the world know who they are – greedy sob’s. While the rest of us are out here with NO Health Insurance, NO food, barely a place to live.
Maybe they should go to prison for stealing?

YES! They are the AIG-MADOFF Company. EXPOSE THEIR NAMES, and tell us how much $$$$$ each one of them received. We have the right to know since we will have to pay the taxes on this Corupted MADOFF Company.

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