How many lies can Chris Dodd tell in a 48 hr period?

Quote from TGregg:

The pols have learned their lessons well. Remember the S&L bailouts? Nobody cared. So they upped the ante with a bigger bailout and added the distraction of these bonuses.

Big deal. An eighth of a billion compared to the thousands of billions in bailouts.

Tell ya what, how about I rob you for 10 large? Then I can say "Oh, hey about that bonus large fries I bought from McDonald's, here's $1.75 back to cover it." Are you happy now?
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If my math is correct, we gave AIG a dollar 73 cents and the bonus amount is a penny.
 
Bugscoe,

You left out how the dumb ass signed an order allowing stem cell research and then signed a spending bill that had it prohibted.

Also making the soldiers pay for their rehab then changing mind.

John
 
Quote from Landis82:

Sounds like you have a beef with Ben Bernanke and Bush's Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson.

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Damn right I do, and I have criticized them plenty. Now it's Obama's turn. He could have stopped this or at least put it on hold until someone explained basic economics to him, but instead, he gets Dodd to put a provision in the pork bill to allow the bonuses. I don't buy the excuse that the lawyers made them pay the bonuses either. Don't pay them and let them sue and explain why they should get bonuses after blowing up the company.

I would like for someone to haul Paulson's ass in front of a committee and have him explain how he can claim the economy will blow up if he doesn;t get 700 bill to buy bad assets, then he doesn't use the money to buy them, but buys bank stock instead. How can that be legal?
 
Quote from nutmeg:

If my math is correct, we gave AIG a dollar 73 cents and the bonus amount is a penny.
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But it's not just AIG, the bailout is a couple trillion and counting. It's an unimaginable amount of wealth. So it's more like $200 and counting, and everybody is ready to literally kill people over a penny.

The really bad people are the ones dealing with the 2 benjies, not the penny. And it's not the people that asked for a boatload of money, it's the rat bastards that #@&^ing gave it to them! Should we start killing panhandlers in the streets for asking for money? No? Then why should we hang AIG suits? The politicians were the ones that gave them our money.
 
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