Quote from jeb9999:
Did you consider the possibility that the overpaid employees negotiated their compensation packages when they were hired or put in their current postion and are legally owed the money?
Are you f**king retarded?
They are tapping TAXPAYER money to pay bonuses, the bulk of which goes to a small group of executives. The population which has problems sustaining its basic needs is now somehow responsible for their bonuses? WTF is wrong with you? The nation's infrastructure is falling apart, yet Morgan Stanley's executive compensation expense takes precedence? Because those despicable maggots might not be ok without an extra million of embezzled money in their bank accounts?
If Morgan Stanely can't afford to pay its employees, that is THEIR problem. Not the people's. Let the firm start liquidating assets and real estate if they are short on cash. Let them go borrow money from the Fed, at least hide it behind the inflation tax (Too bad they already maxed that).
P.S. Bonuses are based on performance. If the bonuses exceed the earnings of the whole firm by 100%, obviously those bonuses cannot and should not be paid. I can see you are too dense to understand what is going on, but let me put it in a simple manner. What you are seeing is looting of USA before the final collapse, on fast forward.

