Comments on: Why is Our Bailout Money Going Towards Paying for Executive Bonuses

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:20:58 +0000

Is there a lawyer that has the guts to file a class action suit against the banks and executives taking bailout monies to hold them accountable for their actions????

Think about it, if someone causes you to not be able to work because of thier actions (ie. auto accident) are they not held accountable for thier actions and forced to pay you damages!!!!

By: Ria Brown

Ria Brown — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:29:29 +0000

I don’t see why CEOs can’t cut their pay and use THAT money to bail out their own organizations that THEIR greed ran into the ground. Why do taxpayers have to help them out when they were at fault and made decisions that caused their companies to need help. Once they’ve shown a willingness to give up their extravagant lifestyles, THEN they should be offered help. Giving money to someone who is already earning $25 million a year doesn’t make any sense. Obviously, earning that $25 million didn’t qualify them to run an organization. Anyone else who mismanages funds doesn’t get rewarded with a bonus; they get fired!

By: cece

cece — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:27:11 +0000

I’ve been searching around for any sign of a movement not to pay taxes. I just watched Bill Moyer’s Journal, a story on the sit-in at the window and door company in Illinois, about how the workers’ picket signs indicate that they are clearly aware of the connection between the finance/banking industry and their situation–they’re not picketing against their company, but rather the bank that finances the company, the bank that got 25 billion and was using it to pay dividends to shareholders rather than give the workers their month’s layoff pay and their health insurance, as stipulated in their contracts.

The story went on to show the questioning of the Asst. Sec’y of the Treasury, who was being asked why somebody got a $3 million bonus from the bailout money. It talked about the political parties getting contributions from the companies that we are bailing out.

That this bailout money is being given out with no conditions is insanity. Insanity, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. If you expect the market to “correct itself”, you are insane. That is not how people work. Human being test the limits of everything…everything. Jeff Skilling ran amuck because nobody and nothing told him to cut it the hell out.

It’s up to us, it seems. We have to stop giving them tax money until they do what is right, don’t you think? I want us to organize! They can’t throw us all in jail, if we do it in sufficient numbers. I think they’d come around quicker than we think, just like B of A did in Illinois.

God, I know this is disjoint and I’m sorry. This is making me nuts! When are we going to finally have enough of this b.s.? What the hell is it going to take?

Point me in the direction of the pay-no-more-taxes-until-someone-takes-the-g.d.-reins movement!

By: CD Rates Blog

CD Rates Blog — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:58:02 +0000

Jeff, that is a great idea. The problem is the seats would most likely be given to people who are spineless and as a result nothing would change.

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:44:49 +0000

The government has seen fit to bailout companies like AIG whose top managers seek and get multi million dollar bonuses continued under the plan. I feel the American Taxpayers should demand a majority seet on any Board of Directors from a company getting these monies. We would then be in a position to bring those Directors back to physical responsibility, or lose their jobs like millions of working Americans are doing now.

By: John

John — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:12:44 +0000

This whole bailout effort reminds me of that old movie “Weekend at Bernie’s”. The economy is about dead and the government is propping it up with more borrowed money to encourage more of the same bad lending practices.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:11:16 +0000

Come on, you can’t cap CEO salaries. This is America (still, as far as I know). However, you CAN let their companies fail, if that is what they deserve from their own mismanagement.
I believe it is the CEO of Costco who pays himself a very reasonable salary each year (not including his stock options worth millions, of course, which is only fair), and makes it his personal goal to be certain that his employees are paid a good wage, with excellent insurance benefits, and a strong pattern of promoting from within. He’s a visionary, and the antithesis of the WalMart mentality… and it leads to success. May he somehow inspire others to be more like him.
Jerry

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:58:27 +0000

The only fair and just thing to do was to let the companies fail. Enron style. Complete with a whole big investigation including jail time for those who did things illegally and class action lawsuits against them by employees and other stakeholders for acting irresponsibly.

By stepping in and bailing these places out the government has essentially said that what they did is okay.

For publicly traded companies, I don’t mind one bit if the executive management makes a lot of money, in fact I think their compensation should be based directly upon how profitable the company is – real profit, not manipulated numbers. This gives them incentive to improve the company, but if the company loses money one quarter then the executive management shouldn’t make any money either.

By: marci

marci — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:25:08 +0000

The photo said it all!
Luv your sense of humor

We are expecting those folks/banks to adhere to our (readers of this blog) own moral/fiscal standards, and they obviously don’t believe the way we do or they wouldn’t be in the fix they are in.

What is morally and fiscally responsible does not matter to some folks!

By: Compare CD Rates

Compare CD Rates — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:49:26 +0000

And there is the downfall of a bail-out. What else did you think would happen? Why would the same people who were untempered in their pursuit of money suddenly start behaving responsibly?!? The bail-out should have never passed and those that couldn’t whether the storm should have been allowed to blow away.

I don’t agree with passing laws on people’s compensation. However, if people can not have the integrity to govern themselves, what else can be done?

The bail-out was not meant to be used to buy banks or pay people’s bonuses. Those that are bailed out should have their compensation limited until such time as they pay it back.