What the fuck is wrong with AIG?  Seriously.  They want use $165 million dollars to pay out bonuses for 2008.  AIG is currently owned by the Federal Government (us taxpayers) at 80% stake.  This occurred under President Bush so all you conservatives, don’t bitch about it being Obama’s fault.  Obama says he will fight this [...]

[Read more →]

We talked recently about the cap on CEO’s compensation for those who get the bailout money.  Some are for and others against.  Some people actually argued that $400k isn’t enough money for CEOs.  Yet others argued that CEOs don’t work any harder than an average joe. Or a single parent working 2-3 jobs to make [...]

[Read more →]

So Obama is proposing a salary cap of $500k for executives of companies which request federal bailout money.  This salary cap is only for companies who are seeking federal aid.  This is limit the golden parachute idea.  Do you think is a good or bad idea?
I think it’s fine. We’re going to be handing out [...]

[Read more →]

Last month I wrote a post about my DH not getting a raise this year, but intead getting a large bonus so the company wouldn’t be locked into higher salaries for people.  Well a person wrote and asked “is it better to take a salary cut or get laid off?”
Turns out this topic was recently [...]

[Read more →]