Last thing I want to see is Chris Dodd and Barney Frank acting like they had nothing to do with this mess and lecturing us on being good citizens.

Bastards!

Yes, I know, they're not the only ones.



>I have a feeling today's hearing is going to be one of those public floggings Congress likes to put on to show how much they share their constituents' concerns / outrage. We'll see if anything of substance comes of it.
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>>Yes, I know that.
>>But don't you think they're just grand standing here just a little bit?
>>Who really cares about the 165 mIllion when they just spent hundreds of million of porkon the so called stimulus packages.
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>>Is there anyway we can recoup the money on pork?
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>>It least we know where the 165 Million went. We have no idea where the other billions are going.
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>>>Sam,
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>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>>It is about the message, not about the amount.
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>>>>>>>>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.