Photos: CEOs Golden Parachutes From Failed Firms

I think that the CEOS that are in any way responsible for this mess should donate a good part of their excesses to a fund created to help people on "Main Street".

Friends of a Feather, Flock together

Friends of a feather , Flock together

We should shoot the bastards and then hang them up on meat hooks for public display!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

like a line in a song sung by don henley, "a man with a brief case can steal more money than a man with a gun!", these ceo's should spend a long time in a regular prison. the man with a gun is lucky to steal a million dollars but when caught will get 20 years or more in a real prison. these ceo's stole millions while preforming a poor job and again stealing millions while exiting that job. convictions and long prison terms will make future ceo's think twice about what they are doing. no one is so "GOD" like that they are above everyone else and the law. let em' hang!

The only way to restore the public trust, the ONLY way, is to repo the assets of these corrupt CEOs,
Why should anyone in America ever make another mortgage payment or credit card payment ever again if these thieves are allowed to keep the money they effectively stole?!

Banks and other corporations should practice social responsibility. No way should bank CEO's get their awesome, very large compensation packages. No one is worth over i.e. 400,000 dollars. No one!! This entire mess is because of greed and corruption throughout Wall Street, the Government, our our dear elected officials. It is simply preposterous that we should have to bail these people out. Let the corps go bankrupt and if needed use the money to build infrastructure in the USA, increase global warming spending and start implementing new alternative energy sources. All of these would create large numbers of jobs.

As far as the bailout is concerned my question is: Where are the most informed, and educated ECONOMISTS at the sessions. These people should be working alongside the corrupt politicians, congress and the White House. Let us get the PROS INVOLVED AND NOT POLITICAL PEOPLE WHO IN THE PAST ARE ONLY OUT FOR THEIR OWN BENEFITS.
mOLLY BOLL, MBA

Forgot this point. These guys should go on vacation(prison) for a very long time, do not pass go do not collect $200.00

If it were up to me, I would have these guys give up every red cent of what their payout were and give it back to the companies. They aren't worth the money. When someone runs a company into the groud they don't deserve to get paid they deserve to get fired and the company needs to hire someone who will do the job properly and make the company suceed. Mournstar

Look at the smirks on these guys faces. Deregulation sure worked for them. I'm sure they're standing in line looking for more tax breaks when they should standing in line to get their mug shots taken.

Deregulation sure worked for these creeps. Maybe they need some more tax breaks too.

I agree with "SGear, they laugh at us all the way to the bank. They will lose NOTHING!" When will american's get wise and take charge of our future instead putting our future in the hands of thieves. IT'S TIME AMERICA TO TAKE CHARGE OF OUR FUTURE! None of then should have gotten a payout.

If by matresses you mean numbered accounts in Switzerland and the Caymens, then yeah. They will lose NOTHING! They will continue to live hign and jet off to some exotic locale while we work our a**es off for the next umpteen generations paying for them. Take another good look at the pictures in this article. They are LAUGHING AT THE AMERICAN SHEEPLE! They are laughing at YOU!

Laughing all the way to the bank, are you kidding? These guys stuffing their matresses. They know if this BAIL OUT doesn't work and their money is in the bank, they could lose it.

Laughing all the way to the bank, are you kidding? Right now they are stuffing their matresses. They know that if this BAIL OUT doesn't work and their money is in the bank, they will lose that money.

Let's face it. Americans will take this again and again from these bastards until we are all reduced to poverty. I'd love nothing more than to see an angry mob show up at each of these a**holes homes, drag them out in the street, beat them to death and burn their houses down. MAYBE then wall street will stop screwing the people of this country. Until then, they will just keep laughing all the way to the bank.

The new compensation levels for the new heads of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac at not 25-percent less than their predecessors, but a mere 1/10th of what Franklin Raines and James Johnsons were paid (and that's NOT coutning their golgen parachuets). Rather than get all huffed up over the $900k salaries being paid to the new guys, I'm mad as hell that Raines and Johnson -both of whom were at least complicity in a cooking of the books while they were in charge - are still living the life of luxury rather than serving time behind bars.

Washington has deceived us, corporate America's good ol' boys network takes care of itself
but not it's workers, our 401k's are now 201k's....maybe 101k's shortly, the health are system
is directed by cost and not care, and our country is becoming more and more owned by
foreign entities. What does Washington actually do then? There is a growing movement toward revolution!

Let's bail ourselves out with a tax protest / boycott.
Don't file in April.
Don't let them get another dime of our hard earned money.
And just wait until the next bubble bursts - the college loans!
750 billion would forgive them - why not that?????