My understanding is

that these contractual bonuses are based on individual or department performance, not company performance overall. 

If a sales person or department manager agrees to a base salary and the rest of  his compensation to be bonuses based on sales figures or some other measure of performance, then meets/surpasses those figures, the company is obliged to honor that contract, regardless what other departments or the company as a whole does. 

If my MTSO offers a bonus for surpassing a line production figure, what justice is there to withholding that from me because the sales department is not signing enough new accounts, the IT department is not resolving technical problems, the billing or payroll department is making too many errors - again - etc.? 

If a company as a whole is failing everybody eventually loses.  But individuals who are performing as agreed by contract should at least receive the compensation they have earned.  Change the rules later, not in the middle of the game. 

• Obama recalling bonuses from AIG - IMHO
  • It seems that there is more to this story than meets the eye. sm - MT and worn out
  • He has no legal recourse to "recall" bonuses. - MsMT
  • I wouldn't count on it. He has a penchant for lying. - Aunt Louise
  • As much as I would like to see this happen... - Zville MT
    • something might can be done - - Amanda
    • Since they cheated the investors, those contracts should - be null & void. (nm) - Topaz
    • My understanding is - Mythbuster
  • From what I read, he's not recalling the bonuses - Backwards typist

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My understanding is that his name was not on the ballot in MI because he did not want it on the ballot.  Anyway, you would have to research that further.  I can't remember the reasoning behind that.

About the FL and MI delegates, I think the reason for the meeting is because the party understands that they will need those voters come November.  There were something like 2 million votes cast, so they don't want to push those people aside.  It could come back to haunt them.  Also, my understanding is that what the candidates agreed to regarding FL and MI was not to campaign in those states, or not to campaign heavily, and I think they stood by that agreement.

As far as legends in their own mind and all of that, I don't agree.  Bill Clinton is loved by many, whether we agree or disagree - it's a fact.  I think that is true for most US presidents.

No, they didn't get put into the closet.  As far as relationships go, they were more worried about social status than gender.  There is a ton of literature on these relationships, but very little about them being shunned, which leads me to the conclusion that it was either overlooked, accepted, or most likely just not an issue.

As far as Sodom and Gomorrha go, well you can call it the hand of God, or you can call it a volcano.  I tend to go with the latter.  However, it is interesting to note that the word "sodomy" originated from "Sodom" (derived from traditional christian usage).

I just read a bunch of posts below and am not disturbed, but maybe dismayed is a better word.  Whether you trust Obama or not because of his policies, voting record, political life, or whatever is your perogative (sp?), but to incorrectly be making statements not based on anything but milicious rumors spread around leads readers to believe the writer is a biggot and just does not want a black man (which I should state once more 1/2 black, 1/2 white) in the white house.  I have no doubt if more of the white race came out and he looked more white than black a lot of this would not be surfacing.

First - Obama is NOT muslim.  You can think all you want and hope it to be true but what part of the facts don't you understand.  How many times does he have to repeat he is a Christian.  Always has been.  Raised in a Christian home, white grandparents, white mother, went to catholic school, attended a Baptist church, married in a church (not Moslim), children baptised in a church.  To say he is a muslim is like saying McCain belongs to KKK after all he's a white dude.  Pullease.  Sure, his father was a muslim when he married Obama's mother but that's where it stops.  Obama never studied the muslim religon or went to muslim services.  My parents are catholics but I was not raised catholic and am not catholic.  His mother later remarried someone from Indonesia and Obama attended a catholic school.  Get your facts straight.  He never went to a muslim school or studied muslim studies and he is not muslim.  So what if the muslims like him, so do the Christians, Jews, Mormoms, Baptists, and many other religions!

Second of all on the flag thing.  Obama's plane has the American flag on it, are you upset because the flag is not so huge it covers the plane from one end to the next?  There's a flag there!  Also, just because he doesn't have an american flag plastered all over the place on everything does not mean he is not "American".  Have you seen him pledge to a flag of another country?  No, he pledges to the American flag!  As for the picture that he is standing not with his hand over his heart.  I can't tell you how many times I've said the pledge of allegience and I didn't have my hand over my heart every time.  Doesn't mean I'm not American.  He's not trying to get rid of the American flag, but for pete's sake it doesn't need to be plastered in every square inch of empty space. 

The poster who is not well informed about Obama's religion and trying to scare people into believing he's muslim when he's not is just plain wrong.  It doesn't "ruffle any feathers" because you are just wrong.  You may not want to "sugar coat any facts" but first you need to get the facts straight.  People don't "hate" republicans, and certainly not enough that they would want "anything" in there.  You could always put that statement on the other foot "People just hate the democrats so much they'll elect an old senile person to fill the position just as long as a democrat doesn't get in there".  That excuse just doesn't sit well.

I'm no "Obama-lover" and I won't be voting for him but not because of malicious rumors on the internet or false statements made by the republican side.  I'm basing my decision on his voting records and other issues that I don't agree with him on, certainly not from anything I get off the internet.  You know there are people on both sides who hate the other candidate so much they are posting fall information, but for anyone to spread this...all I can say is "shame on you".

created would only be temporary. Don't forget, road and bridge construction only lasts in the summer in the northern states, and when those road and bridge jobs are done, what's next?

The money being doled out for infrastructure is definitely not enough. There are many, many roads and bridges that have to be built/rebuilt in the country and any one of them would cost $1 million and up.  PA is getting $2.7M for roads. Is that going to take care of the roads? Doubt it. Headlines recenty in our paper stated PA was going to get $6B. I checked the charts and don't see where he gets that figure.

I have no sense of humor.  Anybody else?