Sam,

It is not the amount. It is just that the bad guys who are responsible for this mess can get away with $165M, even after the government bailed them out. It is just about the bad taste and the message to the taxpayers.

BTW, this same issue plays at a dutch bank. Our PM, essentially said the same as obama: No-one can justify that at a bank that was bailed out by the government millions of $ still has to be paid for bonusses to the people who are responsible for the mess in the first place. Several top managers have volentary returned their bonusses, but esspecially this group did not. It is a perfect example of the greed that put the financial sector and the whole economy down.

It is about the message, not about the amount.







>>>>>I don't see why the lawmakers are making so much fuss over mere 165 million. They just flushed over 1 trillion down the toilet and they're worried about 165 Million?
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>>>>This is why I have limited interest in batting this back and forth, the assumption / attitude that the money spent is all flushed down the toilet. Life really is too short.
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>>>Ok it's not just 1 trillion. It's POTENTIALLY over 3 trillion$$... plus whatever after shocks it may cause... devaluation of the dollar, hyper-inflation more unemployment....
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>>I didn't mean the amount, I meant the position that it's being "flushed down the toilet."
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>>Have a great day,
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>ok, I apologize. I admit I was being an a$$.
>But you gotta admit 165 million is nothing compared to all the pork that were in the stimulus packages.
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>Have a good day Mike.