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  • OMG dude this has nothing to do with your video but you have to watch this video it is disturbing!

    youtube.com/watch?v=0E0OTRq39-­4

  • They stabbed us in the back? That must explain the back pain I got yesterday.

  • I do like when you get passionate with the truth Cenk.

  • Cenk describes the "CORPORATISM" that Ron Paul has been complaining about for 20 years. It's about time somebody in the media finally understands what's been going on.

  • @j1a2r34 Problem is that Ron Paul's sollution is to deregulate everything, get rid of government and leave the field free for corperations to do wathever they want.

  • @AngeCord Unless what they want is to break the law... of course.

  • "I despise them apples" So do I Cenk, so do I.

  • This is why we should nationalize the banks! But of course Obama isn't going to come close to doing that.

  • Give us names!!!!!

  • If you don't like this, go to senate.gov and read through all the amendments that did and didn't make it into banker-backed, Chris Dodd's "Wall Street Reform."

  • Awesome vid! To all those suckas that are "looking" for a decent candidate for the people, someone you can trust, some independent party godsend, someone who puts the people first...keep looking cause you will never find him/her! The solution is to make these morons accountable for their actions and stop them from making their own decisions that include: salary,bonus,trips benefits etc etc.

  • @enchilada01 So......Olbermann 4 Pres?

  • @xJoeEDangerouslyx I could be your pres if you hold me accountable! and probably the best the nation will have!

  • Didn't that "Wall Street Talent" send the world economy into near ruin?

    With the world economy ruined, where are these idiots going to go? Executive pay in every country in the world except the USA is far more restricted. Though restricted more by moral conscience than law.

    So, yes, they can got to Europe & work, if they are willing to take a 90% cut in pay.

    Congress has become completely corrupt. They represent their own self-interest to the detriment of the people, & we quietly take it.

  • the corruption is deeper than we can fetthom

  • Cenk is slowly but surely walking up the food chain of thoughts which lead intelligent people from democrat to republican. Wait until he starts feeling in his bones how the government is actually nothing but a total parasite to the private sector and how it does everything to suck either more votes out, or more cash out, or both, if and when possible. Most intellectuals wake up around 30 when they face real work and stop reading comic books. Cenk decided to wait until 50. His choice.

  • i used to listen to theyoung turks a few years ago because cenk is so well rounded ( i WAS A Repub)....forward years later he sounds more like a constitutionalist rather a dem. good for him....count on yaself ALWAYS count on the government...NEVER!!! R and D's are them same.....destroyers of america and our freedoms!!! cenk, ron paul, peter schiff are American Heros.

  • i used to listen to theyoung turks a few years ago because cenk is so well rounded ( i WAS A Repub)....forward years later he sounds more like a constitutionalist rather a dem. good for him....count on yaself ALWAYS count on the government...NEVER!!! R and D's are them same.....destroyers of america and our freedoms!!!

  • i always said obama shouls use the n word, nationasation, at least for a while, not prementlity.

  • and the wonder why parts of the usa want to secede from the union, small groups now, but a bet they got a lit bigger.

    imho, i;m for Alaska and Hawaii leaving, and al us overseas terrtories as well, with the 48 forming a new USA with a newer stonger consitution.

  • You are just feeling the knife now?

  • Good! You dumb fuck! Nobodys on your side shit head! Stand up for yourself you crippled dick jock-strap!

  • Time for revolution

  • What's the difference between a bank CEO and a catfish?

    One's a bottom dwelling scum sucker

    The other one's a fish.

  • If I was American, I'd be proud that my hard earned tax dollars were going to be used to pay some banker a performance bonus of a hundred times more than I'm likely to make in my entire lifetime.

    ...................NOT ! ! !................

  • I hate those apples too! I would love to shove those apples up everyones ass in Washington and the Bankers!!

  • If I screwed up at my job the last thing I would have gotten would have been an eight billion dollar bonus. Anyone who does not believe that America is not run by the people and rather that it is run by wall street and big corporations need to see this I would consider it to be the smoking gun I want the names of these backstabbing politicians that just screwed all of us

  • nicely done Cenk

  • Cenk, seems like he's on the ball. But in reality he is kind of dense.

    Did he really think the Democrats were any different? Did he really think they don't serve the same masters?

    Obama has stayed the course in Iraq and Escalated the war in Afganistan. He hasn't put all the new bills online. He has broken campaign promise after promise.

    Did Cenk really believe in this guy? How could someone be so gullible? What a dork.

  • The Politifact website keeps a list of how far he's proceeded on campaign promises.

  • @surfn123 he didnt belive in this guy like everyone he thought he was better than the other guy

  • wow wake up america, they are doing this stuff right before your noses

  • don't feel sorry, toddler. keep on fighting in your cpu or whatever.

    this clip could have been made last week, it's still relevant... somebody kick geithner in the ass.

  • This is bullshit. There needs to be a stop to this. There should be no rejections to do so. They have done this to us long enough. Enough is enough. If not when? And how?

  • capitalism 101.

    wow, cenk is so dead on in feb. 09.

    of course, they're starting to give it back, the infrastructure stuff is a very worthwhile stimulus investment, and the help for states is desperately needed.

    wall street and the banks, i.e. financial systems, should give it all back. every nickel. bank o merica says so, others too.

    give it back, all of it. invest in the middle class for once.

  • and you can think OBAMA for not stoping this.

  • No you moron america is a cesspool of lies and greed and now it's fucking dying under the weight of its sins. Looks like you dicks murdered the wrong civilians this time. The Chinese have moved their money to the euro and now the US is going to be cut out of the money and allowed to rot before the going out of business sale. The shittiest and shortest lived empire of all time was killed by bush the war criminal. Your stupidity is the cause.

  • Hahaha. What could be more hilarious than a Little drunken, unemployed runt of an Irish cock sucker... trying to talk shit to an American God who shits bigger than him? Hahah... go back to your bottle, try not to notice your pathetic little apartment (Flat you call it?) and your baby sized cock and keep dreaming that someday you will matter. You make me laugh you small infected cunt!

  • @Airborne80 who are you referring to ?

  • Does overpaid CEOs sound like a capitalist or socialism scheme to you? What a joke

  • G20 pburg whats that?

  • About time people realised democracy is an illusion.

  • Ayatron34 is a FOOL BLACK ! ! !  go out all animations

  • Ayatron34 ! ! The bad-smelling BLACK that you are coverd with shit and dirt, and the kite is dirty ! !

  • And you're an ill informed racist cuntface.

  • Ayatron34 is a patient addicted to the animation which merely comments on an animation in fool itsself in this way. A BLACK being so stupid will be discriminated against in this by other races.

  • Plentybody, the nazi e stalking chris stapleton ass licking, shit for brains can't type for shit idiot.

    Oh btw, Christopher Stapleton is an ugly, faggoty gimptard who fucks jigolows in the ass.

  • Eyes and the eyes that eyes goggled leave Ayatron34, and the BLACK specialridge of the nose that the nose is low does not go and, among BLACKS, looks have bad particuarly ugly dirty vulgar he looks. Beat the stone in a face;look crooked. When I watched the BLACK face of this fool, I was surprised to be ugly. It is a bad-smelling dirty BLACK covered with shit and dirt ! ! !

  • Dude, you've never seen my face. And if you have, it's only from a distance as it would have been from my avatar, which is a very small picture. There is no possible way you can see any detail at all from it. But this is what you've done. You're SO racist, that in even seeing a mixed race person, you assume all the rest of this shit that you've posted. Is every Japanese a neo nazi like you or you just giving the all a bad name? clue - It's the latter.

  • Dude,you completed clear one`s photograph of the face in one`s profile. Your face appeared in your profile clearly. The PHOTOGRAPH which is CLEAR not a picture. Because I save the macrophotograph of your face and stand ,your face comes out clearly greatly.

    I consider the time to be too pounding a shield to me and show your ugly dirty photograph of the face. This BLACK coward, you disgrace yourself sometime.

  • There is no macrophotograph you idiot. There was only a tiny avatar picture which how taken at low resolution to start with, So what the fuck are you on about.

    And why the fuck are you saving any pictures of me? You really are a creepy motherfucker aren't you.

  • Dude, this idiot BLACK ! ! The idiot BLACK is is not to tou . BLACK, oneself forget to be a lowest race, a BLACK. A BLACK is not equal with other races. This worst idiot BLACK ! ! I can shame you anytime as far as there is that clear photograph. It has been grasped an evidence photograph in you . That ugly dirty photograph of the face ! ! You are an abnormal motherfucker ! !

  • Go ahead. "Shame" me with your less that one square inch photograph of me. Go on you dumbass racist.

  • I think you have an obcession with black. You want to be black or something asshole? That why you keep going on and on ?

  • As far as there is that photograph; I need not to be defeated by BLACK you. I treat you as a BLACK of an ugly dirty motherfucker with a stinging tongue. Are there words? If I save your photograph, you will be glad ! ! !

  • At least he's not a yellow monkey.

  • its about time that you realize it,,,they are all voting for tyranny because they are being paid by the bankers yeaaaah you saw it

  • I despise those apples!!!

  • You know what I think.......Cenk for President! Lol. Oh wait.....he wasn't born in the US huh? Damn......Cenk for helping a president in his cabinet or something then!

  • @IndependentEsse usa is doomed without cenk!

  • It is time to "CLEAN HOUSE" in Washington. We have to stand up and GET THESE CROOKS OUT OF OFFICE...

  • He clearly states that either party cares for the american people or do you listen to only his critiques focoused on the right-wing. If anything Cenk warns the majority od Reps of the path theyre going down and how the american people are not with

  • bravo cenk!!

  • They categorize ex-Federal agents, ex-Military and everyone else who pledged to defend the constitution of the United States from all enemies foreign & domestic, terrorists. Why, because those who infiltrated, corrupted world governments & instigated treason are advancing their Evil New World Order agenda. Plain and simple, if you love God & Country you are now their enemy, because secret societies worship Satan & hate humanity. Homeland Security brainwashing labels G. Washington a Terrorist.

  • Since Pumpkinman30 consider a person use of " meaningless words" , which u do consider hell and b-s is, just shows how meaningless interest you have in things. If you would think things are meaningful, then you would also consider language ( or words) as meaningful too. But I do see this use of meaningless words are becoming increasingly common in what is called the " uneducated USA"

  • "shows how meaningless interest you have in things" - coming from the guy that completely missed the point of the video while being solely focused on irrelevant "foul language". we aren't living in the 1950's buddy; people nowadays are more concerned about things like the ECONOMY. in fact, i think it spices up the show a bit. and classifying me as part of the "uneducated USA". i'm sorry but you couldn't be more ignorant. maybe you should put down the bible and pick up a real book.

  • This guy TYT should first correct himself in his foul language. TYT< if you wanna impress others, do it in a edifying way, not trashing the language of your nation. You are using hell as a common word, and have no idea what it even stands for or what it really is like.

  • STFU...did you get what he was trying to convey ?. Dummy

  • Thankfully in America we have the right to free speech....Words are just that words. Your on this video complaining about the language instead of the topic?

    Seriously?

  • Bucktown, If words are just words, as you may think also as not important, or of any deeper value, then free speech may be really abused. The purpose of free speech is to be able to express ones opinion, and not speak some kakapopo words. That wasn't the mainthought of this right given. Use proudly the language we have been taught. If you think you love your country, then love your langage also, don't trash it. Anyway, this was just a point to fight the nowadays so called "uneducated Americans"

  • Kakapopo? You want to come online and be the word police censor in chief and then can't use the english language you complain about people not taking pride in?? Free Speech is Free Speech it can't be abused, thats nonsense. You have the right to say WHATEVER you want. Just as long as you know what you say will cause a reaction. If you can't handle the reaction then don't say it. If you can't handle what is said, Dont listen. Easy enough to do. But you don't get to tell people what to say.

  • the "language" used in TYT is part of what keeps the audience interested. it makes sense for him to use the language he does because it accurately reflects his frustration and anger over this charade. i'd much rather hear him say "this is bullshit" rather than "this is baloney". secondly, "hell" is a common word.  though it is used as a figure of speech, its real meaning only refers to the mythical underworld. its not even a real place so who gives a damn how it's used?

  • So if hell is only a word referring to a place in the mythical underworld, then you are dismissing one of the absolute most influencial persons of all time, Jesus Christ. And how are you, a nobody compared to Him, to tell what is myth and reality, Sorrry, but you will find yourself a looser here. Still God loves you to this point.

  • The definition of a myth is a traditional story concerning the early history of a people or explaining some national or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events. (jesus exactly)

    also, denying hell's existence does not in any way deny Jesus's existence, if that were true then by that logic you would in fact worship Hell yourself. Not too smart of you.

  • Orjyazm.! First, if the Iranian president can make the II WW Holocost to be a mere myth, then i can understand how easy it is for you and others to make Jesus, the Christ a myth too. Now if you really believe that He is what He claimed to be, then you can never believe that hell is a myth. Would be far better if Iranian Pres. Ahmadinejad was a myth after all. Agreee??

  • I agree the world could be better off without people like ahmadinejad. but dont compare jesus with the holocaust in any way ever. Im not saying that jesus isnt real, but by defenition he is a myth simple as that. not trying to be offensive.

  • Orjyazm, We can't make all historical people as myths. Then we would make Ceasar Augustus, Nero, and King Herod, etc myths also. The life of and person named Jesus, being called rebel by some, a friend of sinners by others is sufficiently documented by both historian of that time as well as those who walked with Him. Then it's up to anyone to believe if He is the one He claimed to be or not. That will be so important that your whole life and destiny depends on that belief. No offense to anyone.

  • pokeylilpuppy, they have put the US Military in one of the worst situations imaginable. The corruption is so comprehensive it is mind-boggling. If you have a bit of time, watch "the arrivals" video series. It is fairy comprehensive investigative documentary. Be patient as you watch it, the truth becomes blatantly obvious.

  • VETERANS(possible terrorist per usa) DIED FOR FREEDOMS OVERSEAS, WHILE WE GIVE IT AWAY HERE AT HOME, there's the caption of an ex military veteran who's video discusses that what is happening.

  • i think maybe you may have misinturprted me. i'm assuming your conservative. i guess? but i'm definately conservative. theres nothing wrong with that. anyways you assumed that i didn't know about what the dhs said the other day about "right wing extremist." you were assuming that i was preeching some lie or something. anyways, your cookoo dude. it's like your trying to force my beliefs on me. lol. i just disagrred with your twin tower conspiracy. everything else you lost me dude. idc anymore.lol

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  • It's all fulla shit, folx. George Carlin was trying to tell us as best he could.

    "It's bullshit, and it's bad for ya".

    R.I.P. George Carlin

  • Biggest Magic trick recent history, TV media participated in the 911 fraud. All trading satanic hook em horns Texas hand signals and they all aren't Texas alumni.

  • dude don't even start on the whole 911 conspiracy. that's just a load of bull and an insult to everyones intelligence. it's not true, there's plenty of proof proving that so why start with it. you know your wrong.

  • There is literally no portion of the Official 911 fairytail that has not been proven false. Traces of thermite were found, it was a controlled demolition and 87% of Americans now agree 911 was an inside job.

  • As for a conspiracy, that term is mutually exclusive with "freedom of speech". Whoever uses that term to label someone is either lying or using deception to hide the truth. When you hear that label applied 100% of the time the person who said it does not believe in Freedom of Speech and is a liar. Two things exists, the truth and lies. The search for the truth is not a conspiracy.

  • dude your crazy. you have freedom of speech which means you have the freedom to be crazy. the truth is pretty obvious. as for thermite. show me the proof. cuz i've seen those video's of that theory but all of them are obviously put together by some dude who is a little messed up in the head. there is NO evidence of an inside jon. not even thermite. and 87% think it's an inside job??? where did you get that number? your ass?

  • Your a Satanic ignorant Nazi. Get your lazy ass and do your own homework, or continue to publiclly display your ignorance.

  • a satanic ignorant nazi??? okay dude. i've dont plenty of research. i wouldn't have joined the marines if i thought my own government bombed the world trade center. your don't rate to even argue with. i can deal with regualr liberals who may have valid opinions with valid proof. but i'm not gonna argue about some WAAAYYYYY far left conspiracy theory. it's not worth my time. so have a nice life. go see a doctor.

  • Get your head out of your ass, you got thousands of military active and ex military that have expressed their opinion 911 was a fraud. Perhaps when you do get out, you will enjoy the fact Homeland Security automatically categorizes ex military personnel as civilian terrorists. And , as of yesterday the Republican party was outraged as I am sure so are the democrats. Nice our active military are now classified as future terrorists according to Homeland Security.

  • "the fact Homeland Security automatically categorizes ex military personnel as civilian terrorists"

    Where did you pull this interesting fantasy from? Perhap the memo that said 'terrorist might TARGET returning vets for recruitment' See you (& Fox News types) fill in the blank of 'targeting for recruitment' to 'already recruited & blowing up shit'

    You are an idiot if you think anti-government terrorist types aren't going to TRY to recruit vets who have just been screwed by their own government

  • Oh and it gets worse pokeylilpuppy, Janet Napalitano agreed with Homeland Security's assessment.

  • If you are honestly completely unaware then my apology because your intent was patriotic on behalf of God & Country. US military is in a very very difficult spot. You have pledged to uphold constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. As the current administration moves to eliminate the constitution, that pledge now has you labeled a future terrorist and majority of americans are referred to as sheeple by the Satanic Illumanati that have infiltrated and control US Government.

  • man you are loony. i did pledge to uphold the constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. i would agree with you that my current administration is making me nervous about eliminating the constitution, and if that happens then i'm out dude. i'll desert the the military and so will most everyone else in the military and fight for a free america. but that would only be if we were in a civil war. i don't think that's going to happen. bush didn't bomb the towers, your crazy.

  • Read yesterdays headline news, all ex military were declared terrorist suspects and the Republicans were outraged. Janet Napalitano responded by saying she agreed with the report. You are clinging to a lie and not even considering the truth. Fact of the matter is by that report all returning military are immediately classified as terrorists.

  • no i know what your talking about i heard the report and i was extremely affended. that doesn't prove the two towers were bombed though. i'm really not liking what's going on with my current administration one bit. i hope the dude gets impeached. i'm not to the point of rebellion yet. there's better ways of going about this. liberal extremism has definately infected the white house and it's a total war against the two beliefs. but it's not a physical wa yet. i hope it never is.

  • the gov is lending our money to ppl that created the biggest financial crises in history.... they should get biggest bonuses for that:-)

    it`s outraging how they fool us... seems to me like they are not at all afraid of "we the ppl"!!! no respect left...

  • hopefully cenk can see ron pauls point that this is now a two faction party that has been hijiacked and not for the interests of the american people

  • i dont think anyone but the hardest republicunt facists to the biggest pussy liberal would disagree with you there.

    We all know our govenment doesnt give two shits about anything other than its own interest and power

  • This is a nice show. I like it even when democrats like me question our own representatives. Plust the comments are more interesting too.

  • Bushleaguehomorapist use no grease to take.

    Is that why we are so sore, suckerforpoliticalgreed?

    Or do you like it, bemadefoolof, because you support your liesideoftheislecongressman?

    Question authority! Vote!

  • Apparently, it was Chris Dodd who removed the language...

  • Obama is just a politician. No more.

  • The bankers are showing their true colors. They are trying to sieze power in the U.S. by felxing at us. Could u image the power they would have if there was a private central bank in the U.S. Henry Kissinger help destroy the glass eagle act (make be called something different) and now they are calling him a genius. The banksters are undeniably trying to sieze power in the U.S. and maybe try to set up a world currency.

  • get it thru your thick heads there is no dems no reps , there all puppets of the elites , the nwo what ever you want to call them are useing . There all on the same team . Obama the man of change um no , look who he has around him , there all connected to wallstreet , cfr etc . They all have agendas and the U.S public is low man on the totem . You s had better wake up soon

  • FOR eight long years the American taxpayers felt pretty good about the worst president in history.

    They LIKED getting fucked up the ass ...

    All of a sudden their money is now spent on healthcare, education road and bridges and that is FUCKING SOCIALISM??? What, spending on killing foreigners, bombing their countries to hell, for generations to be affected, that is ...... capitalism???

  • "This sounds like a Bush trick, just like Cenk mentions. It sounds more of a Republican trick since they will try to win by HOOK OR BY CROOK."

    No Republicans were involved. The pay cap was removed in the House-Senate conference committee. The Democrats did not allow Republican members of the committee to participate, often not even telling them about the meetings in advance.

    The final conference committee report bears no G.O.P. signatures. That is not an accident.

  • ha ha ha I just read that Gert Wliders is one-quarter immigrant himself, Indonesian or something. He totally got a Hitler thing going, who was one-quarter Jew.

  • Maybe somebody ought to tell this idiot the title of Division B, Title 7 of the stimulus law: "Limits on Executive Compensation."

    For senior executives at companies receiving TARP money, the stimulus:

    Bans pay incentives if the Treasury determines that they encourage excessive risk.

    Bans severance packages,

    Restricts bonus pay,

    Requires internal review of all pay packages.

    At 4:13, he says that he "retains the right to use his own intellect."

    Any word on when he plans to start?

  • when do YOU start? He just TOLD you that that part was REMOVED! it's NOT capped anyMORE!

  • Here's an idea. Read it for yourself and form your own opinion. Don't make my word or Cenk's word for it.

    Just follow three easy steps.

    Look up STIMULUS LAW TEXT in google (no quotes).

    Click on the top link.

    Scroll down to page 402 and read up to page 407.

  • what part of

    "PAGE 402 - 407 is REMOVED"

    you don't understand???

  • Please read the legislation before commenting again. Thank you.

  • oh you mean THE NOW OBSOLETE LEGISLATION???? no, thanks.

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  • I love how in all the other videos, the title says "Republicans are doing blah blah", and make it seem Republicans do no right.

    But in this one, it is "Our Representatives"

    He says he doesnt care if it is a Democrat. But he obviously does. Do you think a Republican could have taken that out without a firestorm being made about it? Of course not. Get it through your brains, it had to be a Democrat/group led by Democrats that ot this part taken out.

  • Ron Paul was right! Why is that so hard to understand?

    Ron Paul 2012!

  • Well? What names came up??

  • Nobody in politics are there honestly anymore. Only bribes and favors get things done in Washington.

  • Is this a revelation?  Two words: Joe Lieberman Just look up what he did to Democrats and why he still has a place among Democrats. They lined up to suck his Heeb cock even after he bent them over and fucked them with it. They have a name for it: Dirty Sanchez

  • now apply rant to the executive branch

  • The politicians and the bankers watch eachother's back. No matter democrat or rebublican, every administration brings in the boys from wall street (paulson from goldman sachs giethner from NY fed). Nothing short of an uprising can stop this guys. The masses have been numbed, give 'em video games, sports and roof over their head, it is sufficient. so that politicians, the bankers and Ceo's can go on fleecing this country. But then again maybe the dumbass ignorant masses deserve it.

  • Who U calling dumbass ignorant?!? I watch American Idol and Bachelor, allright?? I must be soo smart...

  • Since WHEN have the citizens been represented in the past 100 years?? WE THE PEOPLE are at fault for re-electing the same morons year after year! WE deserve what's coming for our OWN stupidty!! Politicians WANT a revolution so they can declare martial law and get rid of democracy! This is why they keep pushing us so hard to revolt!!

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  • american citizens are being forced to the brink of revolution

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  • Yes I'd like to know who put that clause in to allow the CEO's to keep their incomes unchecked. I'd love to donate against those representatives that put that one in.

  • You didn't READ the stimulus law, did you? It is so typical of you liberals to criticize things without reading them. Actually far from "keep[ing] their incomes unchecked" the law puts in several restrictions on executive pay, including restrictions on pay incentives, bonus pay and the banning of severance packages. Note that I'm exactly saying that these restrictions are a good idea. I'm just saying that only an ignorant liberal idiot would say that the law puts no checks on executive pay.

  • No government bureacrat has ANY say in the matters of personal income/salaries/bonueses/etc. Its none of their business, Obama landed a multi million $ book deal. His cabeint is filled with tax cheats/evaders and he has the temerity to regualte free market salaries. The hypocrisy of liberals is astounding, they just passed the biggest junket prork laden pro-dem. spending package in us history, under the guise of "economic-relief". Theres no limit to their blatant hypocrosy and lies.

  • Cenk doesn't understand economics. It's temping to seek vengeance against the CEOs of these companies for taking taxpayer money. I agree. However capping the pay of the CEO position at these companies would lead to complete failure in any hopes of them finding a better CEO than the last. Who wants to become an exec at a large company when the position pays shit in comparison to others?

    The companies shouldn't have been bailed out in the first place. They and the CEO should've been left to fail.

  • Okay.. that was a great video! really made ma laugh! I liked it alot! I wanna watch it over and over again now!! I t really had me laughing!

  • Even when you're close to being right, you rubber Turks are still stupid.

    Stabbed us in the back? Nay, that would kill us; They just bent us over and screwed us up the ass! It's no "Bush trick" dumb ass - the Gov's been doing this for YEARS! ~ DUH!

    Those "apples" are not American's (tax) dollars - it's PRINTED PAPER MONEY stupid. The Gov spent American's money years ago -

    Who's on our side? JESUS CHRIST!

  • Here we go! Someone says that religion will fix everything, how typical.

  • Here we go - A hubris little Godless baby. I didn't say religion stupid, I said JESUS CHRIST. Are you even out of diapers yet?

  • On our side is a joke, Its like the Sheeple bitching to the wolves about being eaten alive.

  • Being paid by tax-payers means being paid by tax money.

  • I think he meant by that that he can't see why they would really deserve more than 500K. I don't think he was suggesting that the government should work that into any bill, though.

  • Aaaameeerica aameerica the best nation iiin the wooorld!

  • Must be a democrat that secretly remove the restriction. Because if it is a republican who did it, his name will be all over the mainstream media news.

  • Finally, Americans are starting to get it. Your 'two-party' system, hasn't been so for a long time. It's all run by the Zionist lobby. America: You will never free yourselves from this bondage with hopes and dreams, you must ACT. Your government has declared war on you, you just don't know it yet, and you are still waiting for the right time to 'get mad'. The time is N-O-W. Not tomorrow, not in a month, not when the next catastrophe happens, now. Your apathy is their greatest ally.

  • Any 2-party system is bad. You're giving people a black and white choice, at best, issues you're voting on might be highly separated between the parties, or neither party might actually support your views. (& both get too corrupt)

    3-5+ parties is how you have to do it, but unfortunately the founding fathers didn't have the examples of all the free countries in the world to work with (they were borrowing from parliament, ancient Greece, etc) and so made a 2-party framework hoping for 0-parties

  • Actually, the political parties were an unexpected consequence that the founding fathers did not foresee. Washington warned us that parties would tear the country apart and was bad overall, how true

  • That was part of what I was trying to say. They wrote the Constitution with the hope that we wouldn't have political parties, and the resulting framework unfortunately favored a 2-party system. (especially after politicians in the resulting 2-party system started fiddling with election laws)

    In the end, political parties seem to be something we're stuck with, setting things up so there can be several major ones is best, since none get too powerful, more ideas are represented, etc.

  • Cenk you never use your own intellect. You reflect talking points of commentators.

  • well shit, what do you expect?

    the press is supposed to mirror the truth. if a commentator speaks the truth, then someone who's trying to speak the truth will say the same thing.

    what do you want, *creative* news?

    the truth doesn't change every time someone else speaks it.

  • What the FUCKKKKKK! This makes me so angry.

    "Bush Trick" by the way, that's funny!

  • the knife' has been there since 1913, and even before then, but it was certainly twisted inside our backs then.

  • to flyingtorpedo im sorry my friend i have to correct you, they are not putting a cap on everyones pay, only the ones that needed gov't help and getting tax payers money. and it only applies to the top level executives, and its not retroactive, meaning its from here forward and not for the companies that borrowed money last year. you guys need to stop listening to fox news, and please show me where this administration promotes socialism...

  • What they are doing is socialism, and barney frank wants to cap ALL execs pay for every industry regardless of tarp assistance or not.

  • I'm crossing the border back to Mexico

  • i don't know if TYT are right or wrong, i just watch them cose they're funny !

  • WAPost flip

    -Tomoeh Murakami Tse

    2/14/09 Pg A01

    The stimulus package Congress passed last night imposes new limits on executive compensation. . .and goes much further than restrictions proposed by the Obama administration

    The bill . . . limits bonuses for executives at all financial institutions receiving government funds to no more than 1/3 of their annual compensation. The bonuses must be paid in company stock that can be redeemed only when the government investment has been repaid

  • In light of this article, which was published two days after he made the video, shouldn't he pull the video? At this point, hardly any of the things that came out of his month in this video turned out to be true.

  • Explain the difference between salaries and bonuses. I'm still unclear. The most recent "outrage" is over bonuses correct?

    Is that true?

  • Most companies that I've heard of pay bonuses when the company is performing well. Salaries are paid whether the company is performing well or not and is considered to be base pay.

    I don't know why some AIG employees are getting bonuses when the company as a whole is not performing well.

    Perhaps AIG awards bonuses based on each DIVISION'S performance. That would make sense as most of the company's divisions are profitable. Only the one directly involved in trading CDO's is losing money.

  • Yeah, how dare he expose the politicians for what they are. We don't care about facts, we'd rather laugh and be entertained while these criminals rob us in broad daylight!

  • IF you didn't mind getting robbed by bankers and other corporaticians in broad daylight during the reagan bush bush years ... you should stop crying like a little girl.

  • The U.S.A. is not a democracy, nor is it a republic. These concepts are a facade which shield "We the People" from the true nature of our sociopolitical economic system. Money = Power = Votes. Our true system is that of a Plutocracy rapidly evolving into a Kleptocracy. No matter, End of Empire is soon upon us.