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By: Don't Get PO'ed about Bonuses--Get PO'ed about the Bailouts!

Don't Get PO'ed about Bonuses--Get PO'ed about the Bailouts! — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:54:13 +0000

Subsidizing Failure Gets You More Failure. In not paying their taxes–the banks will claim they are only following the example of our Democratic Party leaders.
—At least 13 firms receiving billions of dollars in bailout money owe a total of more than $220 million in unpaid federal taxes, a key lawmaker said Thursday.
Rep. John Lewis, chairman of a House subcommittee overseeing the federal bailout, said two firms owe more than $100 million apiece.—

By: Democrats Protected AIG Bonuses Before They Were Against Them!

Democrats Protected AIG Bonuses Before They Were Against Them! — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:22:07 +0000

Dodd Lied, Banks Died.
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D!) told CNN’s Dana Bash and Wolf Blitzer Wednesday that he was responsible for adding the bonus loophole into the stimulus package that permitted AIG and other companies that received bailout funds to pay bonuses.
On Tuesday, Dodd denied to CNN that he had anything to do with the adding of that provision.
In other words, DODD LIED. HE SPENT A FULL DAY LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, and now he’s trying to shift blame to others. He and his pal Barney Frank WANT TO PUBLICLY NAME THE PEOPLE WHO RECEIVED THE BONUSES AUTHORIZED BY CONGRESS and this administration in an attempt to DEFLECT BLAME FOR THEIR OWN ACTIONS.
If Dodd had a shred of honor, he’d resign. If he had a shred of honor, though, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

By: poescrow

poescrow — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:34:00 +0000

B. Bear…I agree with you. But the list of bailout recipients is so long, whom would we start with?
Considering Mr. Liddy’s faultering answers to Congress yesterday, I’d vote for him to be first. Tar and feathers sounds like a more appropriate punishment.

By: B. Bear

B. Bear — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:25:23 +0000

Disappointedly, this country and its corporate media has seemed to forgotten that brave young men and women continue to die in two ongoing wars. We should all take a moment quietly to reflect on their sacrifice. Then we should pick up our nerf bats, find the nearest corporate bailout recipient,and beat the tar out of him.