DISQUS

Webster · 1 year ago

For the last three years I've averaged $0.00 a year. If I got all sleazy and greedy would the Republicans be nice to me too?

grandma · 1 year ago

OT

ABC/WaPo: Obama Takes Clear Lead, 52-43 Over McCain

In a major shift in the polls, Barack Obama has brought Democrats home, and now leads McCain by a clear majority. If borne out by other surveys, this will represent a tectonic shift in the electorate. According to this new poll, Obama has done something Gore and Kerry could not... reach 50% in a pre-election poll.

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/24/0935/53...

randysmith · 1 year ago

That's not nearly enough. The Rethugs can wipe that out with one hacked voting machine. Or one really dirty ad. And they ain't even started to get dirty yet!
I'll not be convinced until its 20%. And if Americans were paying attention it would be 70% to 25%. It's already demonstrated that 20+% will vote for the Elephant!

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

Yes, anything below $500,000.00 per year is "janitor pay" to the execs. They should have to LIVE on minimum wage for the rest of their miserable lives.

CPL · 1 year ago

Live on minimum wage?

I'd rather see them in jail, stripped of all their financial assets sent to pay those they ripped off, and then they get out of jail and have difficulty finding a job that pays minimum wage because they will have to admit on their applications that they are convicted felons.

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

You are absolutely CORRECT! When compulsive gamblers get into trouble and become conficted felons and can't get a job at the fair, they don't get a bailout from congress, do they?

Why should Wall Street execs be any different? Save the company and PROSECUTE the execs.

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

Most of the Republicans who are opposing the bailout certainly have a deer in the headlights look while trying to argue against themselves and the policies they created that caused the economic disaster we are now having to fix.

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

Well, folks, I spent all day helping to run the "Obama for America!" office in Tulsa, OK. My good friend, Jed Green, is the state coordinator for Oklahoma! Man, its crazy here even in the reddest of red states Oklahoma. When you are in the midst of a campaign office, I think its easy to have logic overcome by the excitement of people constantly coming in who are like minded progressives looking for ways to help elect Obama for President. I'm exhausted... got another day of it tomorrow, and another... until election day! Woo Hoo! g'night.

grandma · 1 year ago

Well done ! !

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

you betcha!

MNUSA · 1 year ago

It's people like you who'll make a difference. Thank you.

Allan · 1 year ago

Investment bankers have often been overpaid.

donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago

Paulson's $38 million is a drop in the bucket compared to the total $11.7 billion in salaries paid out. He was probably Goldman Sachs 100th highest earner, but no one ever asks who the other 99 are. Time to name names.

CPL · 1 year ago

This is simple. You don't think about what doesn't directly affect you. Henry Paulson pulling down a salary the equivalent of the GDP in most small countries would far remove him from those of us with bills to pay, and therefore, he had no qualms about facilitating the bullshyt the country is in, while turning into the fox guarding the henhouse.

Every Cabinet member in Bush's Administration had no business running their respective agencies because they came from industries regulated by the Federal Government, and knew that because they broke those laws, why would they be expected to enforce those laws? They had no intention of separating breaking the law from enforcing the law, and the reality is, they were placed in their positions for the very purpose of raping, robbing and pillaging the Federal Government for bootstrapping, fun and profit, while leaving the mess for Barack Obama to clean up. I won't include John McCain here because all he will do is continue the mess.

Thomas Paine · 10 months ago

Oh, yeah, Barry really is a cleaner-upper. See below.

Insurance and Government-Sponsored Enterprises, and Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are government-sponsored enterprises, or GSEs.

Top Recipients of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Campaign Contributions, 1989-2008



Name
Office
Party/State
Total

1. Dodd, Christopher J
S
D-CT
$133,900

2. Kerry, John
S
D-MA
$111,000

3. Obama, Barack
S
D-IL
$105,849

Also check the following:

The Obama File. After you read all this, tell us all how what you said makes sense.

I'm waiting...

MNUSA · 1 year ago

And what do these people do or produce to be worth that kind of money? Could it possibly mean that we're not all playing on a level field? Congress had better fix this so that all those "productive American workers" they boast about get their fair share of the economic pie.

kiki · 1 year ago

Goldman Sachs average pay was $521,000 in 2005

Folks, and you wonder why your stocks did so poorly???? Now you know. You were paying the a**holes salaries.