Santa visits bailed-out bank execs

[blacbird]

$1.6 B goes to executives of bailed-out banks:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28337800

I'm just tingling all over with warmth and joy at having been so generous to these poor, disadvantaged people.

caw

[Plot Device]

I demand that every last one of these banks PUBLISH exactly who got what. I want names and I want dollar amounts.

[katiemac]

Well, that article says the $1.6 billion was paid last year, before the economic crisis. I don't think anyone has the ability to turn back time.

[blacbird]

Well, that article says the $1.6 billion was paid last year, before the economic crisis. I don't think anyone has the ability to turn back time.

Check with the IRS about this one.

caw

[katiemac]

:D

[Mr. Chuckletrousers]

Check with the IRS about this one.

caw
:D

But nah, the IRS is not the right tool for getting overpaid executives to disgorge their unmerited bonuses et cetera. I have three words for you: Shareholder Derivative Action.

[icerose]

Does anyone else but me think they should have gotten lumps of coal instead?

[Mr. Chuckletrousers]

Does anyone else but me think they should have gotten lumps of coal instead?
Uh huh. Burning lumps of coal stuffed up their tender little stockings, if you ask me.

[Tirjasdyn]

I guess that's better than the 10 bil some of them asked for...:Wha: