Comments on: As Lehman Collapsed, Execs Were Rewarded

Failed Bank's Managers Received Bonuses While Pleading For Federal Aid, Documents Reveal

[cbsblogger]

These guys are terrorists who deserve being treated as a terrorists and have every asset they have frozen and confiscated.

[baby54boomer]

The first thing that should have been done is to freeze the assets of all of those executives. Those assets should have been liquidated for whatever could be obtained.

[txgrouch2006]

They need jailtime and when they get out, their living should be welfare and foodstamps.
Posted by itgrammy at 08:20 PM : Oct 06, 2008

I like the idea. But welfare and foodstamps? They''d just be getting ANOTHER free handout.

No welfare, no food stamps. Let them FIND A JOB. With a criminal record.

THAT should keep them suffering.

[txgrouch2006]

The mindset of non-accountability (Barney Frank) created this whole mess.
I agree with that...
Posted by davidy007 at 06:24 PM : Oct 06, 2008

What''s "non-accountability?"

You mean, like saying "I didn''t inhale?" Or "I did NOT have ... relations with that woman?"

Is that the kind of non-accountability you''re talking about?

When did that all start in recent history?

[itgranny]

We need to try to recoup what we can from these guys and give them a fast ride to a jail cell. None of this attitude like "impeachment is off the table" bologna. If we don''t have room, perhaps somebody that was caught smoking dope could be released early. These guys should never be allowed to live high again. Most had the best this country had to offer them. Private schools, top colleges, mansions, lavish parties and high classed friends and aquaintences. They took it all and then some. They need jailtime and when they get out, their living should be welfare and foodstamps.

[txgrouch2006]

Something need to be done by somebody.
Posted by Sky_Five at 06:15 PM : Oct 06, 2008

Here''s an idea. Why don''t YOU do something by getting out on Election Day and VOTING OUT ALL INCUMBENTS.

That''s what I plan to do. If we ALL do that, it could send a message that EVEN CONGRESS WILL HEAR.

[creeper00]

how can you right-wing loons still say that it was the dems who blocked the first vote for the bailout. it was 15 rep-tards who blocked the vote.... oh,my bad, i forgot that you rep-tards wont deal with facts...

Posted by dltgold

If I were a Democrat I sure as h*ll wouldn''t be bragging about being the party that ramrodded the biggest heist in history.

House Republicans were the ones who held up that bailout, at least for a time, while Barack Obama was going from one rep to another, whipping them into line and making sure they voted to steal $700 billion of our money.

(signed)
Former Democrat

[txgrouch2006]

The executives of these companies need to be brought up on charges of treason.
Posted by DemsDeBreaks at 07:24 PM : Oct 06, 2008

On what charges? Everything they did was LEGAL, thanks to the 1999 banking deregulation act that was passed on BILL CLINTON''S WATCH.

It''s Congress that should be punished. PUNISH THEM BY VOTING OUT ALL INCUMBENTS IN NOVEMBER.

[leftyintexas]

Fuld is a registered republicon. What do you expect?? You bushites out there....Are you happy you and your party did more to destroy this country than Bin Laben ever dreamed of? You terrorists!

[talk2chief]

how can you right-wing loons still say that it was the dems who blocked the first vote for the bailout. it was 15 rep-tards who blocked the vote.... oh,my bad, i forgot that you rep-tards wont deal with facts...

Posted by dltgold

700 billion in the abyss known as the national debt and your pointing fingers? People like you are part of the problem not the solution. Both parties share blame in this current meltdown, and the current administration was asleep at the wheel.

However, those congressmen and senators, both democrat and republican who voted against the bill understand who they represent and who they are accountable to. We the people. The ones who passed the bill only are concerned with the top 1% of the wealthiest Americans and are trying to bury the truth of their mis-steps and criminal association by lobby by throwing money into a black hole.

[trillion1]

Congress needs to be put in jail.

[jerr11]

As Lehman Collapsed, Execs Were Rewarded



As the country goes down in flames, G W Bush and ******** Cheney are rewarded.

[creeper00]

Let us not forget the CEO of WaMu at the time of its demise, Alan H. Fishman.

Mr. Fishman was employed by WaMu for exactly seventeen days. For that time of employment, he collected $20 million.

Don''''t believe me? Believe Jonathan Turley, Professor of Law at Washington University.

http://jonathanturley.org
/2008/09/26/i-quit-washington-mutual-ceo
-fishman-gets-20-million-for-17-days-of-
work-before-the-whole-company-was-sold/

[tacitus27]

Well said - charge them with treason!

It is NOT "tax and spend" Democrats (who helped expand the middle class and built up the country''s infrastructure) that have lead us to the brink of ruin. Rather, it is "slash and spend" Republicans (the ones who turned their backs on fiscal responsibility in order to enrich their wealthy pals) that have corrupted the economy of the nation by telling each other they could cut taxes but NOT give up their own pull at the teat of government.

The saddest thing about all of this is that they robbed the treasury blind in plain sight by offering the middle and lower classes a sham sop of a "tax cut" and using the propaganda of that issues forth from talk radio and FOX news (the Stagnant Stream Media or SSM) to convince them that this gang of crooked SOB''s give two hoots in h3ll about anyone but themselves.

We are doomed unless the revolution does come at last.

[demsdebreaks]

The executives of these companies need to be brought up on charges of treason. They have done more to destroy our country than the handful of terrorists on 9/11. They are TRAITORS. Congress needs to PUT THEM IN JAIL.

[bm6005]

Give me $60 mil in cash and I''ll feel terrible too!!!

[tacitus27]

"I feel horrible about what happened," Richard S. Fuld Jr.,

How do you think the middle class feels, you incompetent f^ch? How about the folks who are out in the street because their mortgage was foreclosed on? How do you think our children and grandchildren will feel when this bag-o-***** bailout bill comes due?

This is the reason that regulatory controls are put in place by a government; to protect the average citizen from being absolutely raped by the so-called "upper crust" of society. Some of the wealthy in this country have a sense of entitlement, unconcern for their fellow citizens, and a complete and utter lack of shame that would make a medieval lord blush. They view the country and citizens as sheep who''s they may pluck as they please and who''s sole role in life is to serve the gratification of their pleasure.

[goodhikers-2009]

On the immigrant alien status for one of the presidential candidates: Obama was born in Hawaii after it became a state, so he doesn''t have any constitutional issue.

McCain, however, was NOT born within the fifty states, but in the Panama Canal Zone. The law seems to agree that his birth to in a military family in the CZ still qualifies him under the Constitution, but it is by no means 100% clear.

So if you are comparing the two candidates, McCain''s is the only one with the naturalized citizenship issue (albeit not much of one and probably not worth the bother).

[waterboard]

Posted by cause_v

Listen dummy. The dummy dems blocked legistlation. Done deal. You lose....

[waterboard]

Posted by monitutonka


I''m down with that. So, why punish me when I didnt have anything to do with it? Especially since I''m a Republican and the dummy Democrats blocked legislation for more oversight because people like Obama and Barney Frank were getting kickbacks from Fannie and Freddie