Meet the Press' "Fair and Balanced" Panel Defend Wall Street Bonuses

[Licmycat]

Read this book: "The White Sharks of Wall Street", Thomas Mellon Ev ans and the Original Corporate Raiders, by Diana B. Henriques and you can see how these wolves are lying. Predator plunders they are and wolves at America's doors. Bust'em Dano! They are hiding their big bucks in mobster banks in other lands!

[1lonelyhmoobFl]

Hey, Erin. You really don't know what you are talking about. The truth is that when your company is in the hole. No one get pay. You have to get your company out of the hole first. Yes, wallstreet is shameful, Instead of using the people's money to get out of the hole, they gave it to all the executives. It does not matter which account they put the people's money. The fact is that they still paying loads of money to the executives, when they are in the hole already.

[jamesmaseobrown]

Wall Street works for Wall Street and NOT for main street. That's why main street is suffering. Yea, they took our money and paid themselves. Take our money back and let those assholes FAIL ! ! !

This just goes to show you who is in control of Washington.

[hchukuka]

to erin burnett... if your company loses 10 billion and one employee makes 1 billion...i'm pretty sure your company goes into bankruptcy, were it not for the TAXPAYER BAILOUT that's exactly what would have happened....regardless of the performance of one of your employees

[treehuggerssuck12345]

She used to work for Goldman sachs and citi. She is just like the rest of those scumbags on wallstreet.

[crossfitter2002]

Got to love the balanced panel. Yeah right they all have their heads up wallstreets ass. Fuck them!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rell127]

Yes he should be paid but he doesn't desrve a bonus.

[scipio2009]

The panel was merely discussing the hoopla about the "bonuses" to these executives on Wallstreet, by trying to explain the fact that "bonuses" are used, in many situations, to determine how these people are paid for their work, rather than just being extra pay, like it is used near every where else.

A systemic flaw in the pay scale, in my opinion, but until people actually understand it, the same reactions will always happen.

What's the point of trying to slander the panel, heathr456?

[areki38]

"A different fund". Oh yes, totally. The first fund is the catastrophe we create and that fund needs some good help desperately. The second fund is where we shuffle all our money into private hands, so it's not of the company anymore, and thus cannot be called upon when the company is held accountable.

The trick seemingly is to get as much money from fund one to fund two without anybody noticing and then crying the crocodile's tears of "woe we the poor need all the money from the people".

[uyd]

Steve should NOT BE PAID ANYTHING LIKE A BONUS USING TAX PAYERS MONEY WHEN THE COMPANY IS GOING UNDER!! IT"S CALLED BELT TIGHTENING YOU IDIOTS!!! YES< WALL STREET PRACTICES HAVE BEEN SHAMEFULL!!! GET USED TO SOME RIGHTEOUS ANGER ON THE PART OF THOSE OF US WHO ARE PAYING TO CLEAN UP THIS CEO CAUSED MESS!!!

[uyd]

The President is right. So is Senator McCaskill. Amen to them both!!!

[boundless1986]

my husbands job is to count the pieces of paper that your credit card and statements are on and his co-worker was promoted to a supervisor they have still not given that man a raise for that, so it is not the common worker who are getting these bonuses it is the execs or higher ups in the company

[phoenixatom]

Shouldn't workers be paid for their work instead of being laid off? Fuck the big wig CEO's...they should be the ones to be laid off. I fucking hate Steve Forbes. He's such an asshole. He just stated exactly what's wrong with this system. The fact that Wall Street, and big Corporations control over 50% of this country's money, and make all the rules.

[prisonerofalliance]

these pundits are all pawns of the wall street class. they are its mouthpieces. steve forbes?! please... bring back paul krugman.

[jhamm999]

im with you guys being against the original bailout for corporations. if we were going to spend 700billion to fix the subprime mess and help the banks get this bad debt off theyre books i say give it directly to the homeowners. that monet would payoff half the mortgages in america. people would then have hundreds if not thousands tospend orsave. however for obama who says expect trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see to lectue anybody on fiscal restraint?. totally absurd.

[il128]

Um.... Every company I've ever worked for first had over all business profitability being required for anyone to get a bonus...

People need to be hung for this.

[rainsan]

Hold on, if you the tax payer money wasn't used to pay the bonuses then what money were they using? They were supposed to be on the brink of collapse. They shouldn't asked for any money. We should not give them any more money. Period.

[SpanishForkOutcast]

More of the same. I can't look at David Gregory without imagining him dancing behind Karl Rove.

[GstateBALLER925]

better than anything you see on fox news sunday that claims to be "fair and balanced"

[johnedwards1968]

OH my god. These guys don't get it either! Are the media, and corporate America so out of touch?

[klugyboy]

What are these boneheads talking about....

Its so transparent that they were given marching orders on this.

[likes2p]

What did the brunette say? I was busy picturing her naked.

[RZetlin]

The pundits missed the point on how this money is being made.

In order to make a profit - people are being laid off to cover up the executives mistakes.

[StephinRazin]

Haha we get paid by the same wallstreet/corporate oligarchy. Fuck u america. We are the media we tell u what to think. Dont hurt yourself by learning or genuine analysis of reality. Shut the fuck up commie terrorist hippies. Good amricans watch tv and give us ur goddamn money. Populalism? Maybe it is shameful u slimy bitch

[egrimnes]

WTF?

[MikeNobodyIsBack]

Puh-leeeeeez!