Glad ot see my Vote is workign for something

[R.D.]

WASHINGTON — Nebraska U.S. Rep Jeff Fortenberry is applauding President Barack Obama for imposing a $500,000 cap on senior executive pay for the most distressed financial institutions receiving federal bailout money.

Fortenberry, a Republican, is a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. He says Obama has done the right thing in holding executives accountable.

Obama announced the dramatic new government intervention into corporate America at the White House Wednesday. The move comes amid a national outcry over huge bonuses to executives heading companies seeking taxpayer dollars to remain afloat.

The pay cap would apply to institutions that negotiate agreements with the Treasury Department for “exceptional assistance” in the future.

[Hydrilla Gorilla]

Your vote for whom, Fortenberry or Obama?

[R.D.]

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UM.......do I really need to answer that?

[Rodney Bledsoe]

Why should Obama have anything to say how much a man can make a year? If my employer or board of directors say my salary is $$$.$$$ that's our business.

I don't agree that these CEO who are laying off people or getting supplement income from the government then getting fat bonuses.

[R.D.]

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that is EXACTLY what this is addressing......basically.......having a Salary cap for the Institutions who have already or plan on borrowing money from the Gov........that way they are NOT paying millions in bonus $$$ out to these greedy bastages

[bigfishingstud]

[War Eagle1]

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that is EXACTLY what this is addressing......basically.......having a Salary cap for the Institutions who have already or plan on borrowing money from the Gov........that way they are NOT paying millions in bonus $$$ out to these greedy bastages</TD></TR></TABLE>

[Lsto19]

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by tritonryan &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">that is EXACTLY what this is addressing......basically.......having a Salary cap for the Institutions who have already or plan on borrowing money from the Gov........that way they are NOT paying millions in bonus $$$ out to these greedy bastages</TD></TR></TABLE>

There is a better way..... we consumers pay attention and stop buying there shit....anyone who thinks regulation stimulates our economy doesn't know much about a free market system......

The government telling people what they are worth/regulating wages sounds a whole lot like socialism/communism and they have worked wonderfully well.

I am no fan of corporate greed but if you think bureaucracy can fix our economic problems you are smoking something.......illegal.

"Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and a society characterized by equal opportunities for all individuals with a fair or egalitarian method of compensation. Modern socialism originated in the late nineteenth-century working class political movement and the intellectual movement of that period which criticized the effects of industrialization and private ownership on society. Karl Marx posited that socialism would be achieved via class struggle and a proletarian revolution and would represent the transitional stage between capitalism and communism."

[vonny571]

Well said.

[sclark]

Well there goes the free market economy !

Is this the beginning of us socialism ???