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Good intentions behind the TARP? Need I remind you what the road to hell is paved with? Look, you and I both know that all the assets of these banks is human capital. The buildings and computers amount to nothing and don't generate wealth without them. If you're not going to maintain your...

Moron, here's a clue: Don't do business with dumbasses you run across on message boards. The fact that you were willing to bet $50K with absolutely zero information tells me you're a rank moron. In fact, enticing an interviewee to take exactly such a bet was one of the ways I weeded out the...

Loyd Blankfein, John Mack, Thain, etc. And their posses. I'm not aware of any investment banking CEO or their executive teams getting bonuses for '08. The base comp for them is $150k - $200K. Actually, I think most of them should be fired, but nobody is asking my advice so....

Anaconda, you're making an excellent case for no bailout. However, once you have a bailout, you have to hold on to - at least - the worthwhile employees in the institution. Mind, I TOTALLY agree that the banks should fail and the employees should lose their jobs. That's just the way it...

Fair enough. If you're talking about the top executives, didn't they all decline bonuses?

You're very angry for someone living on welfare.

Gnome, Obama and GWB are like FDR and Hoover. Obama will simply expand on the disastrous socialist policies that GWB started just as Hoover provided all the foundation for FDR to build the New Deal which kept the depression going for over a decade.

Socialism is NOT kinder. In socialism, the government owns everything and a small percentage of people who run the government gets to decide who gets what. How is that kinder? That seems much closer to 10% of the population controlling 90% of the assets and if the population is unhappy, they...

Most of the people at the bank don't have the ability to influence the balance sheet. While getting a cut of what you earn for the bank does create incentive to take large risks, the whole point of senior management is to protect the shareholders from these shenanigans. Senior management...

I totally agree with you, poyayan. Unfortunately, when BAC, C, et. al. get kicked to the dirt, they just receive windfalls from their water carriers in congress. That means the losers will always win and the real winners will always be forced to pay for the losers. This also means that to...

Exactly why government should have no hand in banking or any other economic entity at all. The government should be restricted to maintaining Rule of Law and common defense. It's barely competent to do that. Once the government is in the position to decide which businesses fail and which...

Reading your idiotic drivel again won't improve its content. I didn't ask you for facts, moron. I asked you to back your idiotic assertion that only 5% of traders on Wall Street are any good. That is, on what do you base this assertion? The fact that you think that you're an "elite"...

Well, first of all, I'm not a brother. Second, I'm not an "insider". As in, I've worked for all these investment banks in the past and I have my own company which neither needs nor is eligible for taxpayer handouts. So, I eat what I kill and let's just say I eat much better now. Idiots...

Because Citi DID want the money and asked for it and because Citi was all for a bank bailout plan. And don't mistake my displeasure with Citi as a lack thereof for Paulson. Don't even get me started on government.

Fine, then don't give them any bailout at all. That's my preferred option. Why should wealth be confiscated from people who actually know how to create it to be poured down a wealth destroying toilet? BUT....if you're going to bail the companies out, you shouldn't ensure that anyone worth...

Where are your statistics to back your drivel. Somehow, I find the ramblings of some dude on a chat board not convincing Wow. Again such heady statistics from a guy with a retail account in Boise. Where's your data. And yet....despite the very high compensation levels....most people...

First of all, where is your data in support of the claim that 97% of Americans are hard working and honest and the vast majority of of Wall Streeters are overpaid crooks? Second, most Americans aren't forced to live in the NYC area, so you have to adjust all the compensation on Wall Street...

Daal, I know for a fact that Citi does not need a jet. Citi has worked hard to prove it is good at only one thing: DESTROYING WEALTH. Forcing me (the taxpayer) to pony up for a plane to aid them in that effort seems...well...like a bad trade for me. Citi can piss away its shareholders'...

Nah...gay conservatives just don't have the panache the libtards do. They make use of them, but they can't run them for shit.

What, you mean to tell me that a pack of lying thieves known as "congressmen" investigated one of the most powerful congressmen and found him to be squeaky clean despite a prostitution ring run out of his apartment. Uh-huh. 'Twas a democrat congress back then, yeah? Not surprising. These...