Comments on: Grassley to AIG: Less suicide, more groveling

By: Bluebird

Bluebird — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:49:57 +0000

Actually Grassley was right on and he shouldn’t have retracted or apologized for his statment. These people are pigs who don’t deserve a dime. We the American people should have let all of the companies asking for bailouts fail. “Everytime you reward failure you get more failure”: Newt Ginrich. Why don’t we let capitalism work for us? If these companies put out a bad product(GM) or they have flawed buisness practices and buisness plans they deserve to fail.

By: Copyleft

Copyleft — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:28:31 +0000

True, there have been many wrongful acts in Congress over the past few years (and decades)… mostly revolving around doing favors lobbyists and corporate donors, creating “loopholes” and custom legislation in their favor, deregulating them, etc.

Plenty of blame to go around. But given the economic crisis, first priority has to be dismantling the foolishness of laissez-faire and re-establishing that the market is accountable to the public.

By: RGB

RGB — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:08:15 +0000

Senator Grassley joined the cacophony of Democrat windbags seeking to draw attention away from their reckless multi-trillion dollars of expenditures by the Democrat House and Democrat Senate. Grassley should take a dose of his own medicine before prescribing his curative potions to those in the private sector.

If you believe the AIG execs should be strung up, then you should first string up the chOsen One along with Reid, Pelosi, Schumer, Dodd, Frank, and other moral miscreants called Democrats. And take a few Republicans along with you for good measure. These people committed acts much worse than AIG in both scope and degree….and have for years.

Senator, cure thyself.

By: Copyleft

Copyleft — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:19:23 +0000

What Grassley’s talking about is restoring a sense of SHAME to those who have ignored their duty to the public. For too long we’ve had the absurd notion that corporations and their executives owe NOTHING to anyone but the stockholders.

That won’t fly any longer. Corporate executives have been opportunistic hogs and looters, destroying lives with their reckless greed. And it’s time to put them in stocks and start throwing tomatoes, to signal that this sort of unchecked excess is no longer acceptable.

String ‘em up!