President Obama to Give Yet Another Stern Message to Bank Execs

Let alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke cut intrest rates to prop up wall street, and make it hard to make a profit cut our sallaries with your Czar and now treat us like children. You will probably go home boohooing.

Why are bankers the only ones who need to control the payments they make to their executives? Why isn’t BaRoke going after movie executives for outlandish pay to hollywood stars? What about government executives for lavish trips and dinners (Nancy Pelosi)? All of this scrutiny is aimed at throwing off the American public to the fact that after one year, BaRoke hasn’t done ANYTHING for this country except bankrupt us with more government spending. Stop the lies and deceptions. Try some real tax breaks BaRoke and maybe we’ll start the job engine again.

Stern messages to U.S. bankers? Here’s a novel idea: why doesn’t President Obama give a stern message to the country intent on building a nuclear bomb, Iran, rather than being “stern” with people who, may be greedy on some level, but who do actually work for the majority of the money that they earn? Being “stern” with people whom the weak and lazy (ironically the same people who voted for Pres. Obama) seems to be nothing more than a political ploy to maintain the support of bumper-sticker Democrats. Give me a break.

The idea that the bankers will respond to a stern message is silly. They will continue to steal whenever and wherever they can and fools like the above commenters will continue to facilitate the thefts by frothing their racism into the public arena.

Racism….yes, that is the reason that hard-working people feel disillusioned with the direction that the current President is taking this country. Sounds like another good bumper sticker.

It’s time to let the pitchforks take over. President Obama, please stand aside. These guys don’t get it.

The President will slap their wrists for being too habitually arrogant, but he certainly won’t address the underlying fraud/theft of the fractional reserve banking system, which creates money out of 90% nothing and allows the resulting imbalance and inflation to fall on the backs of the people. Merest window dressing, just in time for Christmas.

As far as acting like fat cats and “not
getting it”, you Mr. Obama can take your
own advice.

mlimberg: as much as I love your comment, the
President is not a little kid: He is not the youngest
president ever, John F Kennedy was.
Temper tantrums are very closely related to something
called “upbringing”. It is not cute in children and even less in adults.
Maybe looking into the situation of the country would have helped make a decision if it was worth pursuing
the highest post in the land.

Job growth and expanding pay hikes? No
not the private sector, but the government. When everyone is tightening
their belts, the number of government
workers making almost double what people make in the private sector and the number
of people making over $100,000 a year
has exploded. Benefit packages are about
$40,000 on top of that. The new spending
package that was just passed allows for
double digit budget increases for them
while Social Security recipients won’t
get an increase this year because of
no inflation. You want to talk about
fat cats and people that don’t get it,
look at these morons we entrust as our
leaders. Just ridiculous.

Obama is angry with Wall Street and bankers. That’s why he filled his administration with them I guess.
He’s upset about the huge bonuses?
So Obama signed a bill that allowed huge bonuses–Obama didn’t bother to read it first.
What a hypocrite.

30% of people think USA headed in the right direction.
I’m thinking a big chunk of that is Obama’s ultra rich friends on Wall Street and in Hollywood, the poor that are enslaved and dependent, and those who will support anything Obama does no matter what.

Mr. President:
BANKS Got USA, You and US into This, so Don’t Ask, Tell Them No Foreclosures for a Year AND accept any monthly mortgage payment over 50% of the home buyer’s regular payment. It’s only humane that those struggling to pay their mortgages be given this chance to survive financially and keep the greatest investment any family can make: A Home of their own in which to Live!
In the usual “The House Never Loses” mind-set, Bank CEOs and their well placed lobbyists choosing to “cut off their noses to spite their faces,” have decided that Americans will lose their homes before the Banking Institutions will make any adjustment to the new post Bush League economic reality facing our Nation and working families. Time for “We the People” to put Family before CITI and admonish Supreme Court for proclaiming “Corporations are individuals.” They Are NOT, but our children are!
Thanks to Conservatives (and the 1886 Supreme Court interpretation of the 14th Amendment), the “Land of the Free” is blessed with a lucrative institutionalized corporate structure that is anti-individual. Our top-heavy wealthy Nation ranks 37th in the world as a health & medical care provider for its citizens. 37th! And so it shall be until “We the People” vote, “ENOUGH,” repeatedly! Buyer Beware: Wall Street Conservatives and Banking Institutions who have delivered unto us this second coming of “The Great Depression,” still sail on ships kept afloat by Our Money, leaving “We the People” bobbing up and down in our personal sea of RED.
So instead of continuing to bailout out those who monthly gouge our personal family budget, Let’s Stop our flow of money from reaching the Board rooms & yachts of Banker’s schemes, by putting it in the vaults of CREDIT UNIONS.
Just peacefully walk into banks all over America, and close your accounts. Take out your money so you can redistribute the painful red ink, by moving Your Money to greener local pastures, away from International Banks who have purchased other Banks using Our Money.
Mr. President it’s time to take our money from the TAKERS and deposit it in our Community’s CREDIT UNIONS. When millions of Our Money move from the coffers of BofA, CITI & Wells Fargo, “Change we can Believe in” will naturally follow. Then see, How Green the Valley will be for American families and for our USA.
Marcello Rollando
A Reasonable Voice for a Rebirth of Our Humanity,
Freedoms, Honesty and the Rule of Law

I’m sure the banker at shaking in their boots at this little man…. the only thing holding up this president are the enablers and hiders of real news at ABC, CBS, and NBC.
Obama Job Approval Falls to New Low at 44%…

Obama is a fool. He is hanging HUGE legislation over the bank’s heads, will be increasing their taxes, and making their business less and less profitable… all the while saying DO MORE.
Mr. President, you are the one PREVENTING them from lending. You’re scaring the *%#$ out of America’s businesses. THAT’S WHY they’re not hiring or lending. They’re afraid of what you’re doing.
Here’s a tip: STOP doing it and reduce corporate taxes. You will see a flood of hiring and lending. DUH!

“They’re afraid of what you’re doing.”
So while the rest of this weather this storm big business doesn’t have the guts to do what needs to be done help their country. -Typical.

44% approval among likely voters today. Minus eighteen on the approval index.
I am laughing so hard my sides hurt.

ahhhh, those wascally right wingers, always fantasy dreaming that 1/01 to 1/09 were great times for America…. if you listen to them carefully, all of America’s problems started 1/20/09…… it’s a fascinating study in denial and guilt.
I can’t wait until Republicans are lauding corporations who leave toxic waste dumps, after all, they’re just doing business, why should they be responsible.

Interesting article posted on 12/9 titled “Obama’s Big Sellout: The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway” by Matt Taibbi. Here’s a snippit:
“Elected in the midst of a crushing economic crisis brought on by a decade of orgiastic deregulation and unchecked greed, Obama had a clear mandate to rein in Wall Street and remake the entire structure of the American economy. What he did instead was ship even his most marginally progressive campaign advisers off to various bureaucratic Siberias, while packing the key economic positions in his White House with the very people who caused the crisis in the first place. This new team of bubble-fattened ex-bankers and laissez-faire intellectuals then proceeded to sell us all out, instituting a massive, trickle-up bailout and systematically gutting regulatory reform from the inside.”
So how’s that Hope & Change working for you now?

simple math to explain the ‘right’
Republicans
+ Conservatives
+ Tea Party
——————–
Reactionaries

“…that 1/01 to 1/09 were great times for America.”
Unemployment between 4-6.7% under Bush. After the bursting of the tech bubble and the 9/11 attacks, Bush lowered tax rates across-the-board for individuals and investors.
For five years the stock market rallied without interruption — the longest bull market without a correction in post-WWII history — while the economy expanded for six years, a bit longer than the average post-war recovery cycle.
But, you remember things as being awful under Bush, don’t you? You are so darn happy to live with that silver lining of “fun”employment and the super-cali-socialistic government takeover of private businesses under Obama.
Since Obama took office, I’ve had three family members lose their jobs, good engineering and insurance jobs.
I’ve seen my college educated nieces and nephews take minimum wage jobs and have to into their parents’ home in order to begin paying off their college loans and help pay their parents’ mortgage.
The young are feeling it and they are beginning to see what a big mistake Obama is. Obama should have won American Idol and not the presidency.

Skipster, how many jobs has Obama created or “saved”? Now, don’t include all the fake districts…

From the Press-Citizen (Iowa):
“The University of Iowa has directed $33.4 million in stimulus money to the salaries of employees taking early retirement or otherwise leaving the university by June 30. Iowa State University will use $5.9 million and the University of Northern Iowa $3.6 million on the salaries and benefits of employees who took early retirements.”

Since Obama took office, I’ve had three family members lose their jobs, good engineering and insurance jobs.
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The economy was already in free-fall collapse when Obama took office. If you think there is a simple button anyone can push to immediately reverse this, you’re in dreamland.
There was a world-wide economic meltdown during the last of the Bush administration.