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To: bentway who wrote (180919)	1/31/2009 11:36:00 AM
From: James Hutton	Respond to of 306849

"But bonus resentment is building. On Friday, Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, proposed a bill to cap workers’ pay at banks that received bailout money at $400,000, including bonuses. Even now, with Wall Street awash in red ink, stars are pulling down millions. “It’s just not acceptable. You’re talking about the same banks that caused the foreclosure crisis, took record bonuses in the past and continue to,” said George Goehl, executive director of National Training and Information Center, a nonprofit community reinvestment group in Chicago." This is so simple: cut the pay of the employees who are at banks that take the government bailouts (or nationalize the banks); if people think they're making a doorman's tip, let them go to work for the companies that aren't taking the government largesse. Either the pay will be better or the job security will be better. Why is this concept so difficult to these idiots?