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adigal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 08:17 AM
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Bailed out banks are refusing to say if our $$ is going for bonuses
for their incompetent and greedy executives.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/opinion/21rich.html?hp

This, according to Frank Rich

What should happen to these greedy, corrupt executives?? And our corrupt Congressmen who gave them the money with NO strings attached and without even the ability to demand accountability? I think serious jail time is needed - let them spend 10 years in jail, and then we will see how quickly they will screw us again.

I am pissed beyond belief.
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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 08:18 AM
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1. fear based bailout
:shrug:
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 08:22 AM
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2. Get a rope-that's what should happen.
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 08:27 AM
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3. The Business Of America...
...I think it's called a kleptocracy.

Remember, it's the big money people that make the beltway go around. They're the first who get the call when a campaign contribution is needed and this is a favor returned for a favor owe...especially by repugnicans who long have relied on that corporate money to beat down the middle class.

We have no clue where the bail-out money is going...and that's been deliberate. It's the final fleece of the treasury...a final payback by georgie boooosh to "his base"...ruining the economy and handcuffing the Obama Administration for a good part of the next 4 years just trying to clean up the messes left behind.

While jail for some of these robber barons are well deserved (and may just happen), my satisfaction would just to see them bankrupted...class action suits to suck every last blood dime they've stolen and forced to face the worst fate most of them could conceive...be a "regular Joe" who has to worry about paying the rent and utilities. No more corporate jets...if they're lucky, a Greyhound ticket.
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FreakinDJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 08:45 AM
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4. This Begs for a Grass-Roots Uprising
We need to keep this front and center and not let corporate media sweep it under the carpet
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