SgtUSMC, You have more confidence in the Congress than I do. They let the "Patriot Act" pass in the immediate panic of post 9/11 didn't they? Paulson has already nixed ANY attempt to put any limit whatsoever on CEO compensation, and not just CEO's but pretty much anyone he wants to.
On Sep 23, 5:43 pm, SgtUSMC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hopefully Congress won't pass the Bush/Paulson bailout. If they want a > bailout they should let the CEO's bail themselves out. They are the > only ones with the money to do it. The taxpayer can't afford it. > > And lets get some regulations in place so this doesn't continue. > > On Sep 23, 6:32 pm, Hollywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I've scanned over the text of the "proposal For Bailout Plan" on the > > NYT web-site. I look it over in more detail later. It was section 8 > > that really leaped out at me. I'll quote it: > > > "Decisions by the Secretary (meaning the sec. of the Treasury of > > course) pursuant to the authority of this act are non-reviewable and > > committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court > > of law or any administration agency". End quote. > > > C'mon, is that a sweet fucking deal or what? Basically saying "if I > > can panic the Congress into passing this I've got a free pass to do > > whatever the fuck I want and no one can do a fucking thing about it."- Hide > > quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
