more socialism.

[joevol320]

Obama caps executive pay tied to bailout money - Yahoo! News

i wonder if he'll do this for pro players and actors. pathetic.

 

[lawgator1]

Sigh.

joe, did you read the details? This applies only to companies that are getting the federal bailout money. Plus, they can give all the bonus they want, but above 500k it has to be in the form of stock which is redeemable only AFTER the company pays back the bailout money.

What's wrong with that?

 

[droski]

obama can do what he likes, but no real talent is going to work for $500k

 

[joevol320]

Sigh.

joe, did you read the details? This applies only to companies that are getting the federal bailout money. Plus, they can give all the bonus they want, but above 500k it has to be in the form of stock which is redeemable only AFTER the company pays back the bailout money.

What's wrong with that?

how many time have you heard that CEO's get paid too much by the libs. i know exactly what the conditions are in the article. do you actually think the libs will stop there once it's passed? No, they'll add more and more restrictions. libs don't stop until they're able to control all the private sector.

 

[gsvol]

"There was a huge scientific breakthrough today. Researchers say they are very close to finding someone from Obama's Cabinet who's actually paid their taxes."
Jay Leno

"It is easy for the other side to advocate for higher taxes because, you know what? They don't pay them." --House GOP Whip Eric Cantor

"For all the promises of a revolution in ethics, President Obama has created a new syndrome: The well-off can be made to stop evading their taxes by nominating them for cabinet posts." --Victor Davis Hanson

"'Stimulus' comes from the verb stimulare, which is Latin for 'transfer massive sums of money from what remains of the dynamic sector of the economy to the special interests of the Democratic Party.' No, hang on, my mistake. Stimulare means 'to goad.' And, on that front, the Democrats are doing an excellent job. They've managed to goad 58 percent of the American people into opposing the 'stimulus' package." --columnist Mark Steyn

"Even if the spending could give the economy a jolt, at what price? I don't mean the legislation's overt price tag. I mean the production lost because the money borrowed by the government won't be available for private investment aimed at satisfying consumers. Do we want politicians directing how scarce resources are used? I'd rather have those decisions made by entrepreneurs who must please consumers or go bankrupt." --columnist John Stossel

"Using long, drawn-out processes to put money into circulation to meet an emergency is like mailing a letter to the fire department to tell them that your house is on fire. If you cut taxes tomorrow, people would have more money in their next paycheck, and it would probably be spent by the time they got that paycheck, through increased credit card purchases beforehand." --economist Thomas Sowell

"Big government is where nations go to die -- not in Keynes' 'long run,' but sooner than you think." --columnist Mark Steyn

"The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule." ---economist and philosopher Fredrich August von Hayek (1899-1992)

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." --Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith (1723-1790)

"You know how Congress is. They'll vote for anything if the thing they vote for will turn around and vote for them. Politics ain't nothing but reciprocity." --American humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Nothing but sympathy: "You campaigned to change the culture in Washington, to change the 'politics as usual' culture here. Are you frustrated? Do you think it is much, much harder to do that than you ever anticipated?" --CBS's Katie Couric to Barack Obama on Tom Daschle

Blame the Republicans: "This does read to the public as though the Republicans went after [Tom Daschle], someone that the president very much wanted, and brought him down." --MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain:
"This isn't socialism. ... This is time for all Americans to step up to the plate and give." --former ABC reporter Jami Floyd on the "stimulus" package

"There is another riddle inside a second enigma tonight. A detainee released from Guantanamo Bay is now found to be leading al-Qa'ida operations in Yemen. The knee-jerk questions: Since the guy went back to his terrorist ways, does that not mean we can never close Gitmo? But perhaps the real question is: Since we never tried him, never found him guilty, and the Bush administration set him free, what if he wasn't a terrorist in the first place but we turned him into one by sending him to Gitmo?" --MSNBC's Keith Olbermann

"If Congress acts right away to pass President Obama's Recovery package and then takes decisive action this year to institute a cap-and-trade system for CO2 emissions ... the United States will regain its credibility and enter the Copenhagen treaty talks with a renewed authority to lead the world in shaping a fair and effective treaty. ... A fair, effective and balanced treaty will put in place the global architecture that will place the world -- at long last and in the nick of time -- on a path toward solving the climate crisis and securing the future of human civilization." --greenhouse gasbag Al Gore an expert on credibility.

"Environmentalism and the global warming alarmism is challenging our freedom. ... I'm afraid that the current crisis will be misused for radically constraining the functioning of the markets and market economy all around the world. I'm more afraid of the consequences of the crisis than the crisis itself." --Czech President Vaclav Klaus

"Didn't you ever wonder if the witch doctors themselves thought dropping a virgin in the volcano would really bring good crops? I'm thinking they didn't. But it kept them in their witch-doctor jobs and gave them a few final moments in private with the virgins. And that, boys and girls, is how government works." --columnist Randall Hoven

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

obama can do what he likes, but no real talent is going to work for $500k

So what we've seen at GM, Ford, Bears Stearns, Citigroup, etc. is "real talent"?

 

[gsvol]

So what we've seen at GM, Ford, Bears Stearns, Citigroup, etc. is "real talent"?

lol:lol:lol:

How about the new 'in over his head yes man that just got a $500,000 severance package from the Federal Reserve' Secretary of the Treasury that can't even figure out his own income tax???

Herr Frank and fascist wage controls:

Congress will consider legislation to extend some of the curbs on executive pay that now apply only to those banks receiving federal assistance, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank said.

“There’s deeply rooted anger on the part of the average American,” the Massachusetts Democrat said at a Washington news conference today.

He said the compensation restrictions would apply to all financial institutions and might be extended to include all U.S. companies.

"I've always rolled my eyes a bit when people have called Barack Obama a socialist, or linked the Democratic Party to Marxism. We're not there yet, but the eye-rolling ends today."
Mark Graham

We have a precedent to this in not to distant history.

Wandervogel youths were indoctrinated with Greek paganism and taught to reject the Christian values of their parents (mostly Catholics and Lutherans). The CS belief in a homosexual elite took shape within the Wandervogel in the concept of "der Fuehrer" (The Leader). E.Y. Hartshorne, in German Youth and the Nazi Dream of Victory, records the recollections of a former Wandervogel member in this regard: "We little suspected then what power we had in our hands. We played with the fire that had set a world in flames, and it made our hearts hot...It was in our ranks that the word Fuehrer originated, with its meaning of blind obedience and devotion...And I shall never forget how in those early days we pronounced the word Gemeinschaft ["community"] with a trembling throaty note of excitement, as though it hid a deep secret"

These Storm Troopers would soon become known as Nazi Brownshirts. Konrad Heiden, a contemporary of Hitler and a leading authority on Nazi history, wrote that the Freikorps "were breeding places of perversion" and that "Rossbach's troop...was especially proud" of being homosexual (Heiden:295). Rossbach's adjutant was Edmund Heines, noted for his ability to procure boys for sexual orgies. Ernst Roehm, recruited by Rossbach into homosexuality, later commanded the Storm Troopers for the Nazis, where they were more commonly known as the SA (an acronym for Sturmabteilung).

It takes a village to raise a child.

Caption this.

When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."
Adolf Hitler
Speech November 1933, quoted in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer

 

[Pepe_Silvia]

I diagree with the government bailing out companies in the first place, so the fact that Obama put a cap on CEOs' salaries is immaterial.

 

[gsvol]

I diagree with the government bailing out companies in the first place, so the fact that Obama put a cap on CEOs' salaries is immaterial.

:salute: