Executives Got Paid Millions While Asking for Bailout

[Shavarnarak]

Oddly the righties never care if the rich screw them for billions of their tax dollars, but they scream bloody murder if a tiny fraction of their taxes goes out to helping someone in need.

Which is one of the reason I find righties so utterly disgusting.

[ppshchik]

Both Bush and Obama suck

[Ocoton]

Obama is miles better than Mc. Cain, or should I say Palin, since Mc. Cains gunna cark it any day now.

[TAMTULROD1]

This is a larger plan. He who owns the banks rules the world.

[halbie71]

These guys who run companies into the ground & walk away with millions of dollars remind me of the men on the H.M.S. Titanic who dressed as women to get on the lifeboats..........COWARDS!!!!

[strakha0]

I agree with your sentiment, but really these guys are much worse because they did it for the sake of greed only - life or death wasn't a factor. Cheating to save one's life may not be honourable, but it's human. I can't say the same for the execs at Lehman Bro's.

I agree through that a fitting solution would be to put them all on a ship and nudge it towards an iceberg.

[sc0pl355]

RMS Titanic...

Just sayin'

[halbie71]

RMS Titanic, I stand corrected.

[gandalf117]

People's naivety, ignorance and ENVY never ends!

SO WHAT IF THEY GOT $20 or even $100 MILLION? The corporation they manage is probably worth billions of dollars. It is amazing how people are crying and whining about things their little minds don't grip!

Everyone who is insolent enough to judge like that reporter monkey in the suit is plainly ignorant and stupid.

I am not saying all this because I like CEOs but because it's the truth! Think about it.

[NotOfThisGalaxy]

۝ ۩ ۞

[amergk]

Notice how Democrats and Obama Never say HIgher Taxes are GOOD for the ECONOMY. Simple reason they are not. Add that with forced health care or be fined, but that's not taxes, higher Social Security, but that not taxes, costs of obama's spread the wealth means Joe middle class will be screwed. Companies will layoff and work hard with less people and pass the costs off to US. Notice there is alot of not taxes in Obama's plan.

[1blackie1]

Taxes have been cut and we are experiencing our worst economic times since the Great Depression. Your thesis makes no sense.

[Boukephalos1]

Actually Obama thinks so also. Note recent picks and remarks. It seems he is saying thanks left for getting me in the office but I will lead from the middle and try to keep the gov't sound after fanny and freddy fucked everyone by buying worthless mortgages and then selling them to everyone.

[1blackie1]

Fanny and Freddie were minor factors in our recent crisis. The major culprits were Alan Greenspan, deregulators in Congress (yeah, I'm talking to you Gramm and McCain), the CEOs in the banking industry, and the people sucked into buying houses beyond their means.

Fannie and Freddie only got into trouble when they were deregulated and allowed to catch up with the other buyers of MBS.

Clinton raised the top tax rates and the economy took off.

[BrainChile]

I mistyped on the divide/conquer thing but you know what I mean.

[BrainChile]

It's situations like this that I agree with Rev Wright's "Damn You America!"

How the heck is it that it's our tax money but we dont know how it's spent? Spas, grizzly bear research, $million severance packages when we cant even retire with what we saved? wtf?

Stop blaming each other! Forget blk vs white and Dem vs Rep. It should be taxpayers vs the tax spenders, or the honest vs the dishonest. Soon it'll be the rich vs the poor.

Divided we conquer, United we stand.

[Boukephalos1]

Finally, I wouldn't care if the candidate was black, just not this black candidate. Too many skeltons in the closet auchi, rezko, daily, acorn(voter fraud), dohn, ayers, rev wright, michell(mean America)obama, malibugate, bittergate, farrakhan, never has once called terrorists, muslim terrorists, his marxist background and george soros(not Greek by the way, an anti-Semite-Hungarian Jew, go figure). No No No, not this man. Curious you called me a racist, are you a muslim Lebanese? Rhetorical.

[1blackie1]

Stop with the guilt by association garbage. None of these attacks are legitimate and even the sheople didn't buy this foolishness this last election. Funny nothing ever came of the trumped up charges against ACORN. Just a baseless distraction from McCain because he had nothing better to offer. Can offer 2 of these nonsensical charges about McCain that you can make about Obama. Daley, not daily, is one of the finest political figures in the USA and the Chicago boys will clean up Bush's mess.

[Boukephalos1]

Could fool you but not America Rev Wright has said anti-Semitic remarks as has his friend does daily,Farrakhan. I know you don't hate Jews and palestinians and sou lebenanese don't hate Jews, come on, who the hell are you trying to kid, certainly not me or the world. Maybe the only Lebanese that don't hate Jews are Christian Lebanese the Israeli's saved from muslim ethnic cleansing. Otherwise go sell you lies to a-jad, bin laden, farrakhan, rev wright and obama and their followers. Boufou.

[rikestard]

no video of this hearing?

[eirefrance]

C'mon, Cenk, its the free market. Thats the American way. A few people have way more than they could ever trickle down to us peons, while universal health care is SOCIALISM OMH MY GOD SOCIALISM DONT YOU UNDERSTAND!!!!

[davisyt]

OMFG

[USB06]

We as a citizen must raise up and say "we wont take this bullshit anymore". Top execs should be jailed period

[qwertyhoo]

dude,do you have even a single idea about what happened?, of course in hind sight you can say jack all, and people will beleive it, like you, just like with all these shity theories that 9/11 was planned, which is bullshit, they earned the money, made the money, if they still had their jobs, they would make much more money than that 20mill, the guy even said the whole bank made 500mill in 8 years. But in hind sight you can say whatever you want, and it makes great speeches for comedians like him

[NotOfThisGalaxy]

The Federal Reserve (Fed) is the 4th bank in our nation's history that we have borrowed from, as opposed to the US making the money instead. It is unconstitutional & foolhardy for US to borrow money from anyone. The Fed creates money out of thin air; we can do the same as a nation. In fact, it is written in the constitution that ONLY the nation may create money. Anything else is counterfeiting; so your money is counterfeit. The only true way out of this mess is to nationalize the Fed Reserve.

[1blackie1]

Are you one of those Ron Paul nutjobs?

[Boukephalos1]

Ah, I see Fannie and Freddie financial melt down resulting from the Community Reinvestment Act is lost on you. Started by carter and enforced and continued by clinton. Bush tried many times to stop it but was turned down, but hey you know better. But I am SO happy Obama is going centrist at least with his picks. I hope they act that way when he takes office. It sure seems they will.

[1blackie1]

You fell for the biggest internet hoax since the "Palin had a brain" hoax. The CRA has been in effect since '80 and it just so happens to fail during Bush's reign? The CRA involved only commercial banks... how does that explain the investment banks failing? Why did Lehman Bros. have 13% of thier investments in F&F if they were so toxic? Why did so many high end developers so belly up when they had no connection to the CRA? There is a million shortcomings to your logic.

[1blackie1]

When did Bush try to stop the CRA? I would like to know. You mean to tell me that Bush pushed totally disasterous policies through Congress for 6 years and he couldn't stop a little policy from 25 years ago. Come on and try harder.

I hope Obama can clean up the historical mess left by Bush and the neocons any way he can. But the only gov't policies that ever work are from the left side of the political spectrum.

[spyder357]

Yeah right. Bush tried to stop it?

He had a republican controlled house and senate who rubber stamped everything he did. If he couldn't get it done he must not have been trying very hard or at all.

[Boukephalos1]

that's the Rub. the economy WAS getting better, Republicans tried and were stopped by both parties because of the false readings. Just like the Dot.Coms during clinton. CRA, Community Reinvestment Act, you know the Acorn and community organizers extortion to force lenders to give loans to minority owners, our beloved president and his group taught the class. No one changes anything that seems to be working, even clinton. GOTCHA didn't I? bye spyder you have been caught in your own web/\.

[NotOfThisGalaxy]

It's a no-brainer that the bailout was unconstitutional. Cleary, it was unconstitutional. So all of the congressmen who voted for it should be thrown in prison; and all those who advocated it should be brought up on conspiracy charges. Conspiracy to commit an unconstitutional act. Conspiracy to commit a FELONY!

[JOHNINCOLUMBUS]

Why doesn't the government confiscate the Lehman Bros. CEO's assets?

[NotOfThisGalaxy]

JOHNCOLUMBUS: That's easy. Congress has been bought off by millions of dollars of political contributions to congressmen. Go to this big website with lots of interactive tables and stuff: OpenSecrets d o t o r g

[tommy99addams]

Shit man!!! We need Russia to bail us out man!!! LOL!

[NotOfThisGalaxy]

Somewhere along the line, the USA has forgotten that We, the People have a constitutional right & constitutional obligation to create USA currency, and not borrow money from the corrupt for-profit private banking cartel known as the Federal Reserve. If the Nation has the credit to get a loan, then we can make the money ourselves instead. The full faith & credit of the USA is what backs a loan or money we create; & we never have to pay money back that wasn't borrowed in the first place.

[snappa52]

take a look around you, folks. posse comitatus (active duty military deployed state side) has been violated by the Bush administration. the banking of the world is being consolidated as we speak with this world wide bail out. presidential directive 151 gives the executive branch dictatorial power in case of terror attack and natural emergencies. atlas shrugged much??

[foxychocho]

Man, these corporate execs are really raping us out here!!!

[fireking9934]

@foxychocho just cause your a poor lazy ass motherfucker... that cries about the "rich" and the "succesfull" doesn't mean there "raping" us

[Mjhavok]

How the fuck can they get away with this. It feels like they are stealing. It seems like there should be laws they are breaking. Fucking typical corporate states of American. Hypocritical thieving pricks.

[NotOfThisGalaxy]

If you go to opensecrets d o t o r g you can see which banks made donations to members of congress. The banks, knowing in advance that they were going to need congressional votes, BOUGHT OFF CONGRESS. You can trace it all on this website.

[NotOfThisGalaxy]

There is ONLY ONE solution. . .

NATIONALIZE the PRIVATE FEDERAL RESERVE BANKING CARTEL

Seize their assets; expose their crimes; arrest the criminals.

Google: Executive Order 11110 JFK -to see how JFK almost busted the Fed cartel.

Educate Yourself: See "The Money Masters" video.

Stop allowing the Federal Reserve private banking cartel to counterfeit the nation's money. Return money creation to We, The People.

THE FEDERAL RESERVE ACT OF 1913 TRULY WAS THE CRIME OF THAT CENTURY

[allanxxx99]

Right on man.

I'm sick of this crap

[SpikeLarkin]

Makes you want to puke doesnt it.

[megamarsvin]

I wish this was surprising. It's barely news :/

[baypos]

enjoy your commentary, but please don't blaspheme Jesus Christ or God. Thank you!

[curlyfry1106]

those things are pretend

youre welcome

[mandingo129]

No its not pretend. Just think about why is it that the USA always has to borrow money. Check out the history on how the fedral reserve bank was born. There are people out there that will do anything for money. Millions have been killed for money. Im not saying money is not important I'm saying that we must have a revolution and brake the hold they on us, on you, on me.....

[Paetaor]

This reminds me of the line in the Generals Daughter.

"What's worse than rape?"

And the next batch will do it again. Go find out how a hedge fund works. The manager takes 20% on the way up after he and his other managers bubble the stock and lose nothing but your money when the stock collapses.

[Gonji]

Are u fucking blind? The republican system is full of propaganda and scandals, its the same old traditional system that has been fucking with you since 9/11.

The economical crisis on Wall Street is a bunch of bullshit so lobbyist can hang glide money in their big fat fucking pockets full of greed. And Mccain is presumably told to be the good guy who was all in this set-up plan. So they can make Republicans look good and make democrats look bad. If thats not political propanganda, then what is?

[fireking9934]

@Gonji why do YOU care about how much SOMEONE ELSE makes

you fucking hypocrite

[sarahsoro25]

I believe America doen't need Cenk, I think he should go back where he came from, he is an idiot, this turk is a lier.

[edwardjames81]

and you a racist!!!!!

[Timothy196543]

OSAMA = Terrorists

[Gonji]

MCCAIN= FULL OF SHIT, and it's Obama you illiterate piece of shit!

[upabittoolate]

your comment = obvious

[lebaneseameer]

you are right Osama bin Laden is a terrorist!! So what do you call McCain, somebody that made sure Bin Laden wouldn't be touched? TRAITOR?

[Kencone1]

It's re-distribution of wealth. All upwards.

Exactly the same thing happened in the 30's.

Also it doesn't seem to be helping so far.....

[what1414]

republicans defeated the bailout the first time, not democrats...

[grahamkeithtodd]

yes your right they DID until cheeny took them to one side and "invited" them to go 'hunting' with him .....

[corbaman]

You can shoot a lot of wolves for $480 million dollars.

[Timothy196543]

More food stamps thats great change come on osama you can do it !

[Twackius]

Thanks to Republican economic policy, food stamps will become the new US currency.

[melora72]

Some of that money could have helped a lot of Addie Polks?

[letherden]

thats not what bachus and latourette were saying - the people who voted against bailout, republican and democrat(and embarrassingly few democrats)were all saying we're not gonna let those b******* rob us blind! but congress majority were bought off. and obama was just naiive.

[crowdaddy13]

a four letter word.........no not "fuck", the word is "bush"

[Cossack007]

Americans will have no Social Security. People will drive up to McDonalds and order Big Mac and will see 100 year old woman with no teeth working at drive-thru taking order because she needs money to live and has no pension. She cannot be prostitute or stripper because her boobs now sagging so she can only work McDonalds. Then 100 year old woman dies at Drive-Thru and they throw her body in the back trash because no money to bury her. This is future of America.

[hiiamrick]

Damn, I truly wish wish that I could disagree with you. Americans needs to take back America.

How could we fall so far so fast?

[gangsterdrester]

Terrorism.

[hiiamrick]

I disagree I think it was just plain and true, GREED!!!! Steal from the poor to pay the rich.

Some rich boy needs to go to jail.

[Twackius]

You really think they'll throw her corpse in the trash? Really? And waste cheap meat?

[tfromdai]

All these rich idiots are robbing us blind! Wake up America!

[fireking9934]

@tfromdai i hate "anti-rich" hypocrite assholes like you

wining cause of someone else's sucess

[tfromdai]

what?

[DillonX]

Keep hittin' em Cenk.

This $700 Billion was just another transfer by Bush & Company from the lower 95% to the top 5%.

[slame25]

What about the AIG. A week after the insurance giant, the American International Group, received an $85 billion federal bailout, its life insurance subsidiary, AIG General, held a weeklong retreat for its top sales agents at the exclusive St. Regis Resort in Monarch Beach, Calif. Expenses for the week, lawmakers were told, totaled $442,000, including $200,000 for hotel rooms, $150,000 for food and $23,000 in spa charges.

[Adelan06]

Wow. That was a brilliant explanation. Holy crap some people are lucky.

[PhillyKid07]

wow thats messed up

[morninghigh]

What about Franklin Reins, and Jim Johnson Obamas head financial advisors...Ceo's of Fanny and Freddy.... And who were the highest recipients, of money in the senate from those 2 companies hhhmmm. Chris Dodd and Obama... Who voted Mccain and Greenspans Fanny reform bill down... Hmmm, O and in 99 it was Bill Clinton that passed the bill for low earning income families to afford these redic houses.... Wake up people...THis guy is out to lunch

[hollywoodartchick]

Ha ha - it is hilarious when fat cats lose track of how much money they make and how many houses they have, but tough luck for the suckers who have no home at all and no job at all.

[dustynbones]

They didn't rob any body. They took advantage of the less fortunate with the help of totally corrupt politicians. If anyone is committing theft it is primarily the US Congress. Cenk loves to solely blame the Republicans wholeheartedly when both parties are equally to blame.

eg., Canada's upcoming elections. Not even Democratic Parliamentary Governments can solely blame one specific group when all of the names of the ideologies and their functions are totally misrepresented.

As I keep repeating

[bgrim2008]

LMAO! Lehman walked away with over...

$300,000,000.00 !

While Millions are stuck in foreclosure/dept AND...on top of that...

Each and every one of us has to fork out an extra + $2,000.00 EACH in taxes ?

How bout' a mortgage write-off ? or AID ? for those in the pitts right now ?

If homeowners who owe over 50% of their home in principal, if their mortgage company fails, THEIR MORTGAGE SHOULD BE WRITTEN OFF!

Why are we paying a Dead Company ??? They Tanked! They LOSE. PERIOD

[Anvilofsteel]

actually, the guy was BS'in, his compensation totalled 484million including value of perks, cash, bonuses, and stock payments that he excersized and cashed in. Coincidentally while the company was tanking, he was directing it to buy back millions of shares of stock to puff up the stock price, just right to sell off his own shares at a profit.

[Boukephalos1]

Truths are something to speak about if they have substance and these do, they then become points of concern and these are merely by you not addressing the evidence, but by attacking me, I see your fear. Can you imagine Obama's. As for the liberal mantra," talking points", you have proven you lacking there also. This nothing to laugh at this man is dangerous and a liar

[Joosybum]

Throw a bunch of names out with no explanation or support to your argument. That's truth according to Bush conservatives, sure, but it is not reality. Keep making up lies about Obama and blurting out nonsense. It just shows your desperation and gets him more votes. Only the most deluded morons, the wealthy and fanatical Christians support McCain/Palin at this point, so go preach to those imbeciles.

[Boukephalos1]

The list of names must certainly bother you and they should, because they bother Obama and hang around his neck like an Albatross. I am also very sure as an Obama zealot you need no further explanation of each individual, there names along make you grimace with fear and the knowledge of the damage they should and will do to his candidacy. Americans will not be deluded much longer by him.

[lebaneseameer]

Well then let's talk about G Gordon Liddy and Joe Vogler....two enemies of America!! They are directly tied to McCain and Palin, respectively!! Pastor Hagee the antisemite...Rod Parsley!! If McCain becomes elected, he will make sure these people will destroy America!!

Oh you don't want to play this game anymore? SHUT THE FUCK UP THEN!! You are a racist and a despicable human being!

[Boukephalos1]

Your writing to me I guess, somehow I received your reply. #1 Liddy is a patriot, he was ordered to part-take in his illegal action and did it for the gov't. It was illegal and he paid for his crime. AYERS did not and people were MURDERED, obama, worked with this murderer and lies about their intimate relationship. Vogler had a meeting in Walsilla, that's all. Hagee isn't anti-semite, and not McCain's pastor. Farrakhan is anti-semite and Obama knows him and Rev Wright. What are you lebanese?

[lebaneseameer]

So it's patriotic to say that you should shoot Federal agents in the head?? Hagee is antisemetic! Just because somebody's pro-Israeli doesn't mean they like Jews. They have their own despicable reasons!! Vogler's the head of the Alaskan Independence party, a group where BOTH Palins are involved in!!

Yeah, born in Beirut, raised in Dearborn, MI since 1989....US Citizen and US Taxpayer!!

[Boukephalos1]

Are you are trying to tell me that you are not Anti-Semitic. I doubt that. This is just a Smokescreen you are throwing because you have nothing else. She's self made and a threat to Obama, and John McCain is a Hero. Obama has done nothing,Except set up acorn which is now out there getting fraudulent voters on his behalf. Again Hagee is not McCain's pastor,but Obama's pastor was Rev Wright, truly anti-Semitic anti-USA preacher. Palin was mayor of the city, the Vogler function was held. Gothca.

[lebaneseameer]

I'm not antisemetic!! I have many Jewish friends!! I'm not anti-Zionist!! GOT IT, Malaka??

[Boukephalos1]

How cute you know a Greek curse word. Your smokescreen will not fly.If your not,let's hear you speak out against Obama for the 20 years at that Racist Anti-Semitic Church. Let's hear you point out the Rev Wright, Obama's mentor and pastor of 20 years for his Anti-Semite Words and Deads. Let's hear you point out that Obama had to hear it the second time to abandon him and that church and after Outing his Grandmother as Racist the 1st time to save his association to that church and pastor. NONONO!

[lebaneseameer]

What the fuck are you babbling about?? His church isn't anti-semetic! Just because they disagree with the amount of killing Israel's done to the Palestinians and south Lebanese doesn't mean they hate Jews!! How about Pastor Hagee, who said that Hitler was sent by God to punish the Jews for not moving to Israel!! You talk about smokescreens....obviously you're a hypocrite!!

YOU are a racist, not Obama!! U see a black man going for the presidency and automatically you see a conspiracy!

[Joosybum]

Zealot! Good one. Still no proof to support your slander and outright lies. Keep it up because the nonsense you spout is helping Obama get elected. Thanks for proving to all that Republicans are deluded, racist, fear peddling and war-mongering fools, not to mention extremely ignorant and proud of it. You are too funny to even take seriously.

[mmante]

They have the money in secret bank account in BAHAMAS and ARUBA -- ask he swiss

[Boukephalos1]

Obama,NOw claims Ignorance_of_Ayers, Ignorance of Rev, Wright, Ignoranace of Michelle Obama, Ignorance of Dohrn, Farrakhan, Soros, Auchi, Resko, Daily, Raines, Johnson., Gorelick,Black Panthers, Kennedy, Ahmandinjad, Kim jong il, osama bin laden, asaid, hamas, hezbellolah, oh heck he is just plain ignornant, or is he. Of course he's not. Ayers bombed buildings and Obama received backing from HIM. Give us a break, Obama. How stupid do you really want to appear? Those exec's work for OBAMA.

[mmante]

Fucking BIBMO

[thrillhouse1980]

Two words: Complete Desperation

[lebaneseameer]

Hey Sarah Palin.....i like your chickstache!!

[jono1028]

They all work for Obama now.

[denicci1977]

This is insane...They shouldn't take home a dime. They need to put all that money back in and take their ass to the unemployment line like the rest of us when we lose our jobs. I can't believe this crap !!

[qanazir]

He keeps his money but looses his presige in the finacial world.

I guess there is a little poetic justice in that.

[blackeyedsiouxsie]

very little.

[mites7]

lol wtf is one human being supposed to do with half a billion dollars. I could probably save a freakin third world country with that much. But what do most of them do? Buy houses, cars, yachts, and attempt to outrich the rest. Its kinda sad.

[zhae00]

That's what the hell I'm talking about!

[fireking9934]

@mites7 so what..... why do you fucking care about how much someone makes... fucking dumbass...

unlike you.. i don't really care about how much someone makes....

[longhairred]

Corporations act as psychopaths. They have only one objective - profits. No responsibility to society, just their shareholders.

Of course there are some that operate in a socially responsible manner, but they are few and far between.

[IcyKitty]

I'm sorry Cenk.... you're wrong.... the money is in offshore accounts or in tax shelters so they don't have to pay taxes

[Jackthemeat]

My ass hurts after watching this,

and not in a good way.

[HulkSmashPunyHumans]

I see Cenk laughing but honestly

I dont see how this shit is even funny anymore. Fuck these soulless greedy corporate rich elites. Fuck them all to hell.

If our economy totally collapses and the money left in our pockets becomes nothing more than meaningless paper then may the streets run red with the blood of the rich elite.

May the heads of lobbyists be highly prized trophies hunted with fanatical zeal.

May the mansions of the top 1% be our bonfires.

[jumar1281]

AMEN TO THAT! I have one dumbass person at work who keeps arguing this is not a financial bailout, its more of a liquid infusion into the economy, then shit like this is exposed. I say to hell with it, we need to track down these billionaire ceo's and bleed them dry for every penny they robbed from us and continue to rob from us. sell of their multi million dollar homes, yachts, fancy cars, polo pony's, and every fucking armani suit hanging in their oversized closets

[zhae00]

AMEN!!! Like bloomberg has mad loot and instead of putting in some of those billions into the economy he claims to want to help, he goes looking for a third term to keep power. What a prick those assholes are. Making corny ass PSAs and wearing trendy campaign slogans don't help do shit!

[fireking9934]

@HulkSmashPunyHumans i hate "anti rich" hypocrites like you

[HulkSmashPunyHumans]

@fireking9934 Good. I'm glad you hate me. choke on that hatred you spoiled rich brat. I bet you never worked a day in your life but talk all this shit about other people being lazy. You got no idea how hard it is for the working class.

Keep hating me and I promise I'll keep hating you. Maybe one day we'll even meet as enemies in a class war when the 99% of Americans wake up and realize how the 1% that owns everything have been screwing us over and rise up to tear your motherfucking heads off.

[fireking9934]

@HulkSmashPunyHumans bitch... the working class aint shit..... all they do is cry and bitch and moan about the evil rich.. they dont do shit..... im rich cause i worked for it..

your poor, cause you are a bitch

[HulkSmashPunyHumans]

@fireking9934 yeah right... no one from the working class has ever done any fucking work, huh? Only you spoiled little soft rich boys born with silver spoons stuck in your mouth built this country, huh? Only you spoiled rich boys marched, fought, and died in our wars, huh?

Well just keep believing that rich boy... but dont be crying when you get your head blown off cuz everybody got guns nowadays.

[fireking9934]

@HulkSmashPunyHumans i worked for my wealth bitch, i lived in a poor household my whole life.. but i made something out of myself, you poor working fagget hasn't...

i will fuck you up.. i got guns galore.. if a war ever came... the rich got tanks

[HulkSmashPunyHumans]

@fireking9934 We all gots "guns galore" idiot. That's the point. Oh and you got a tank now? pffft you're pathetic you lying sack of shit.

Your lies don't even make any sense. If you really came from a poor upbringing you wouldn't talk the shit you just did about the working class.

fucking liar... All you soft rich boys always claim to have been poor before. Poor to you just means your neighbor's mansion was bigger than your daddy's. You've never worked a day in your life... stop lying.

[luvangel330]

Lets all bend over and take up the rear

[MrFrankBullitt]

Speak on it Young Turks!

[razedemon]

Welcome to Corporate America

[jcsuperstar714]

The salt in the wound is that politics is protecting them and will distribute even more of our taxpayers' money to them and other folks much like them. Bet we'll see money supposed to be for buying bad debt turn into corporate welfare. (The sharks are already in the pool.) The Fed is now considering unsecured loans and devaluing our dollars with a vast money supply increase. The bailout, at a minimum, will be akin to giving a charity money so they can use their normal funds to buy more bibles.

[bettablue1]

Man, I love the way this guys just explains things so clearly. You guys ROCK! Keep 'em comin' (to use Palin's vernacular)!

[manon99zippy]

WAMU CEO - $19M in 3 weeks.

Poulsen - $500M in 6 years.

[darealdjnutz]

I agree, the government should leave them alone and seize the property of real criminals. Like the CEOs.

[lorenzo8500]

I thought criminals were sent to prison. There are more than a million people in prision and your telling me we can't at least fit these 3 white collar criminals in there.

[UltimoLatino]

Fuck no we cant...because thanx to the privatization of the prison system those 3 guys probably own the fuckin prisons. Besides have you seen the "prisons" they send the elite too? They are like big ass country clubs its a fucking joke.

[guitarfreakstyle2]

"Israel Owns America, and America knows it" - Ariel Sharon 1981

[andid]

correction: too large NOT to be dictated by the government...meaning economics, foreign policy, and energy are forced to be regulated for the sake of the population and ethics.

[guitarfreakstyle2]

$400 billion of that $700 billion payout was wire transferred to Israel The next day. Hey Young Turk, Investigate that and report back to us your findings.

[lebaneseameer]

"SAY IT AIN'T SO JOE" lol....could you give me a link to that?? I gotta show this to everybody!!

[matereymate]

why isn't there blood trickling through the streets?

[darealdjnutz]

Capitalism only works with tight regulations to make sure it's fair. The Republicans don't want it to be fair.

[andid]

There has to be a balance between regulation and competition, and an understanding that certain areas (economy, foreign policy, energy) are just too large to be dictated by the government, while personal/moral issues (abortion, stem cells, wiretapping) should never be infringed on by the government.

[sisforshayla]

craaap. you gotta think the candidates wished they hadn't come out in support of it now.

[TheGiantRobot]

It wasn't even risks - they were throwing away the stock holder's money and they knew it.

[Idtelos]

all these CEOs and top executives should be charged with crimes, put in jail, and all their money taken from them.

[TheGiantRobot]

Absolutely agree.

[darealdjnutz]

They seize drug dealers property. These guys are worse than drug dealers.

[Idtelos]

yes, guess why? drug dealers don't pay tax. if Republicans could get them to pay taxes, they would make drugs legal. Coorperate America would take over the drug trade.

[lordvalgarX]

Yep, and what will the American Public do?

Absolutely nothing.

They'll go back to playing their PS/Wii's/WoW and watch the Baseball playoffs.

Cenk tells it the way it is, but the American audience is gutless and loves being slaves to the rich.

[DTMTroy]

lordvalgar hit it right square on it's head that is exactly 100% true and they'll deny it too can't forget that.the rich get richer the poor let them by being fools.

[AbsolutionDouble0]

The best part about this, is that all of that money they made will not be registered as part of their wages which are taxed at nearly 35%. Instead they will register it as capital gains taxes which are taxed at 15%.

They will lie, they will get millions of dollars that they shouldn't, and they will get away with it.

[jtilak]

INVISIBLE HAND, BABY!

[boeingdriver29]

This has to be the best scam going. I'm going to start a bank, pay myself heaps, finance fools, and then when it fails just put my hand up for some money. Couldn't be easier.

[aeolismensae]

SPOT ON

[darkwolf228]

You could start a small business for less than a million.

[timwarneka]

WAAAY less than a million!

[crowdaddy13]

hell you could start a small business with a lawn mower and a weedeater.

[annya127]

It's absolutely outrageous that these CEO's get anything except a kick in the ass on the way out. What the hell is going on? They do not deserve ANY money as a reward for bankrupcy.

[apple093080]

This corruption makes my blood boil. We need to end this NOW!

[lordvalgarX]

there needs to be more Americans like you, but action is needed, not just words.

I hope one day you guys will brave enough to sort them out in the Whitehouse.

[corbaman]

It's a great point. Why are these CEOs walking away with their $480 million dollar compensation packages (in the case of LB), while the firm declares bankruptcy and then gets bailed out by the taxpayers? There's clearly some deep BS going on here.

[katey1dog]

Bush will pardon these criminals. This shit gives communism, COMMUNISM, seem legitimate.

And the commies just suck!

[FrostPegasus]

Commies don't suck.

I'm a communist ...

[katey1dog]

That's funny coming from a guy with the National Anthem Of The Confederate States Of America on his channel.

Viva Fidel!

[FrostPegasus]

It's a fun song. :-p

[katey1dog]

Yes, it is a fun song! :-)

[ridenitro620]

FIRSTFIRSTFIRST

[XXLpinut]

good for you! :)