Wow. I jumped on here, expecting to find a forum-war raging wildly regarding this news…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090204/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bailout_executive_pay
…but nobody has started it yet, so I guess I’ll get it going.
“Hey, Obama! You are a nice guy and uh… I like your policy suggestions, but… Um… Actually, that’s all. Please keep up the good work.”
-Mink-
We need to coordinate these things Minkie
Which we totally could if only your desk wasn’t two feet away from mine.
Crazy. We posted less than one minute apart…
Ok, I’ll call you tomorrow morning and ask what you’re going to wear, so we can coordinate. I’ll be in my gray pants, black shirt and be wearing way too much cologne. You know, for the LADIES!
-Mink-
By ladies, you must mean wenches. At the inn. So you can DO them.
Well, it’s really hard to make any kind of argument against this socialistic move when we just nationalized a ton of private financial institutions. You can’t have it both ways. If you want and receive the government loans, you agree to the government’s restrictions to what you can do with those loans. (That’s assuming they’re even still “loans” at this point.)
In a way it is even simpler than that: the US government (meaning all taxpayers) is becoming a major stakeholder in the financial institution. This is just a form of voting your shares for how much your management compensation should be. Which is what shareholders SHOULD have been doing all along, but weren’t.
He’s always wearing track suits and yelling at me in his slavic accent about getting out and seeing some “big American Titties”
