Comments on: Paulson OKs Cutting "Golden Parachutes"

Treasury Secretary Agrees To Sticking Point Involving Executive Pay

[egresor]

You are a complete an utter MORON. You can''''t READ.

Seriously - did you ever suffer a severe head injury? You must have brain damage. Maybe part of your visual field isn''''t working, and you just CAN''''T SEE entire sentences.

The stupidity displayed on these boards is reaching DANGEROUS proportions. It''''s really scary to think that such ILLITERATE IDIOTS are going to be VOTING.

Well, by God''''s grace, most of the morons will be voting against McCain anyway. I''''ll be voting against him, too, so by coincidence the stupid will vote the same way as the wise, just for a far stupider reason.

Posted by txgrouch2006===
sorry there but i think your image in the mirror of history and truth is one of those funny mirrors one see''s at the bush circus of errors.

calling me an idiot shows your own mentality sir...not mine.

clinton left some bad things for our economy, but he at least had what the conservatives always espouse. fiscal responsibility compared to the last 8 years he was a better republican than bush.

he did raise taxes on those making 250,000 or more but cut welfare roles and accomplished a very long list.
where are the lists of the conservative''s accomplishments?

there aren''t many.

each one of the republican presidents has left the economy in worse condition than that found it.

present your facts and show me to be a moron... for sticking up for at least a half decent president.

[marcosis78]

Why does Bush want to pass this ASAP? So then it it shows that he "cares" and if it doesnt get approved, then he can blame Congress for not handing him everything under the sun? No wonder he''s the worst president in history. I wonder what the US would be like if Gore''s votes WOULD have been accepted in Florida in 2000.

[rosemari2]

Everybody is supposed to be afraid of this That is all we had ever heard for the last eight years-------be AFRAID-----------I''ve so sick of the scare tactics.

[bthrasher102]

On a lighter note, if you read the 3rd posting on this comment section you will see that someone named factsearcher not only thinks there are 300 million home owners in the U.S. but that giving each of them $1 million dollars would be a cheaper plan than giving wall street 700 billion. DD2302 later states that we should give the $85 billion bailout of AIG to the 200 million adults which according to the posting would be $425,000. I really hope these two people have nothing to do with money or anything really.

[cdfoxtrot3]

Compounding the administration''s challenge, Republicans and Democrats both say Bush has lost credibility, particularly in cases where he argues there will be dire consequences if Congress doesn''t act.

"They sold the war, they sold the stimulus package and some other things. It''s the ''wolf at the door"'' argument, Davis said.


I love it. People - even the dumbest politicians finally "get it" (to paraphrase a former Dept. of Defense Secretary). I never thought we''d see the day that Bush has so little political capital and so little credibility with anyone, that even his own backers have difficulty supporting him.

[pensacola98]

Having a credit-driven economy clearly wasn''t part of the great vision of deregulation.

What has changed today, is that we have fewer savers and more borrowers.

I still feel that President Bush failed to reveal that the prime lending rate discounts were spawned by the inflation worries during the earliest years of the war in Iraq. Had there not been a war in Iraq, the Fed Chairman would have not seen a reason to discount the prime lending rate.

If the citizens want the best guarantee that the bail out bill will work, require a provision that ends the presence of troops in Iraq immediately. We get our economy back and look forward to prosperous times.

[txgrouch2006]

no leg to stand on there!
Posted by egresor at 10:33 PM : Sep 24, 2008

You are a complete an utter MORON. You can''t READ.

Seriously - did you ever suffer a severe head injury? You must have brain damage. Maybe part of your visual field isn''t working, and you just CAN''T SEE entire sentences.

The stupidity displayed on these boards is reaching DANGEROUS proportions. It''s really scary to think that such ILLITERATE IDIOTS are going to be VOTING.

Well, by God''s grace, most of the morons will be voting against McCain anyway. I''ll be voting against him, too, so by coincidence the stupid will vote the same way as the wise, just for a far stupider reason.

[mapjo11]

Hey rhs648 --
I agree totally. We need to insist that members of the House and Senate revamp those perks!!! Hear! Hear!

[rhs648]

Does a federal pension for life after only serving one term in Congress or Senate qualify as a federal golden parachute?

When will that perk come to an end?

Posted by payasyougo

Congressmen know a good thing when they see it. They vote themselves pay increases and perks and it doesn''t matter whether they are Democrats or Republicans. Congress lives by the rule that charity starts at home and there is nothing we can do about it. Congress failed in its oversight duties yet is unaccountable.

[egresor]

starting with Bill Clinton, ... no body is clean in this mess.
Posted by dmw1167 at 09:51 PM : Sep 24, 2008

Oooooh, now you done it. You got the Clintonite cult worshippers after you.

They can blame it on Bush, Reagan, and Nixon. Probably Eisenhower and Lincoln.

But if you blame it on a DEMOCRAT, you better WATCH OUT!

They''''ll make faces and call you names and BAAAAD stuff like all that. LOL!

Clinton''''s involvement in SIGNING the 1999 banking deregulation that led to this mess is like Ted Kennedy''''s involvement in Chappaquiddick. EVERYONE knows he was at the wheel, but they DENY TO THE DEATH that he''''s to blame.


Posted by txgrouch2006
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clinton sold us out with nafta and trade but what was the condition of the treasury when he left office?
and now after 8 years of extremist conservativism?
no leg to stand on there!