Actually, I agree with the bailout. The only conditions I would have perhaps considered would be to give some money and they have regular audits to ensure that the money was being put towards rebuilding the company and not being siphoned off somehow (which is what I think the mislead public believes). Until this point, I think the gov't did fine.
I just don't like the knee jerk reaction to the bonuses and I think that the targeted persecution of the people who received them is short-sighted, will ham-string the companies future efforts at staffing and retention, and is overall vindictive and wrong.
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