Obama calls $18 Billion in Wall Street Bonuses "Shamefull"...

18 Billion in bonuses is "shamefull". $819 in pork, government takeovers and trojan horses is an outrageous act of iresponsable, disgracefull, totalitarian coup. I read through the bill, a few times actualy and the more I read, the more frightened I became aas the slow realization of what this really was. People, all party bickering aside, you need to call your senators and SCREAM at them, yell, curse, demand retraction, threaten them with civil unrest if you have to. This is not just a subtle shift in the feel of governent, it is a klurch towrds something never seen in this country, a government our founder would call an abomination and an insult to every drop of blood they shed in giving us this great land. This goes beyond party lines. Please, I implore you, forget that little letter in front of your name on a voter registration and step back a moment, realize what this truly is and rage against it.

Yeah, you've hit right on it, Para. I really admire your straight-to-the-point-screw-how-it-sounds demeanor sometimes. 'Cause in situations like these, there really aren't any softer ways of putting it. I know it's early yet...but stuff like this does not give some of us alot of reason to "hope" that things will "change" in the way he implied. Things are changing more and more quickly by the day, alright. But mostly not in good ways...and alot of it, he doesn't have much to do with. *frustrated sigh*

the hypocrisy is mind boggeling. but what can we do, really? I think it is all orchestrated beyond the people whom we see and they are puppets on a string, only the people are not the puppeteers. I do not think this has been a democracy for a long time, and the errors of russia are spread far and wide.

Obama's statement only illustrates how little he knows about business. Or how much he knows counts on the fact that his 'Bots know nothing about business. He lumps all of the bonuses together so that it sounds like a much bigger number but the bonus a person recieves is between the recipient and the shareholders. It has nothing to do with customers. And it especially has nothing to do with government. Obama wouldn't know shameful if came up and bit him in the a$$. The real shame is the fact the the electorate in this country was stupid enough to elect this man. His plan is not an "economic" Stimulus It is a DemocRAT Party Stimulus. We always get the government we deserve. Don't bother with calling your so called "representatives". They couldn't care less about you. Call the RNC and tell them that their days are over if they keep on this path. That's what I did after Gietner was approved.

The $18 Billion in bonuses is indeed very shameful. On top of that I read today that because of the short timeline many banks applied for the bailout money just to have a foot in the door. They just didn't know if they really would need it with all the gloom and doom about the banks at the time. Now apparently most of them, especially the smaller ones, don't even want it and refuse their share of the money, mostly because they don't want the government influence on their banks... That tells me that most of them, even those who already received the money, didn't need it or not that much... They took it as a precaution. And yes, I have to agree, what's all tucked away in the stimulus packages for the 'buddies' is shameful, too. Maybe Obama is trying to veer attention away from those issues and rather point the fingers at what even he can call shameful. At the end of the day we'll be stuck with a giant mountain of debt which somehow will need to be paid off.