Aw, Well, Shoot ~ Party’s Sort of Over: I Was Hoping to Get a Gig With These Guys Before Anyone Caught On

Because no one seemed in any great hurry to put a lid on things, you know?

US Senate Adopts Ban on Fannie, Freddie Bonuses

The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved a measure to scale back million dollar bonuses for the executives of government-run housing finance firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

…Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican, and Democrat John Rockefeller of West Virginia cosponsored the amendment. It was introduced after the companies’ regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, approved nearly $13 million in bonuses to 10 executives.

In their Dr. Phil defense: when it’s NOT your money and you have neither stockholders nor competent overseers, and enablers from stem to stern, who’s REALLY to blame here? I mean, REALLY?

categories Nanny State, Politics | | datetime February 3, 2012 7:58 am

One Response to “Aw, Well, Shoot ~ Party’s Sort of Over: I Was Hoping to Get a Gig With These Guys Before Anyone Caught On”

  1. JeffS says:
    February 3, 2012 at 9:03 am

    Tone deafness appears to be all the rage, these days.

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