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I guess that depends.. was the $600 mil he made used to pay back the taxpayers?

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I guess that depends.. was the $600 mil he made used to pay back the taxpayers?

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I guess that depends.. was the $600 mil he made used to pay back the taxpayers?

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[quote=flu]Just curious, do you folks think paying someone $100million is an outrage if he/she brings in $600million?[/quote]

Has Citigroup paid back the taxpayers for their bailout yet? If no, then it is an outrage. Taxpayers should be paid back first before the company starts doling out bonuses. If Citigroup has paid back their bailout cash then he could be paid one googillion dollars and I wouldn’t care.

Supporting big payouts to bailed out executives while opposing the same for firefighters is a bit of cognitive dissonance, wouldn’t you say?

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[quote=flu]Just curious, do you folks think paying someone $100million is an outrage if he/she brings in $600million?[/quote]

Has Citigroup paid back the taxpayers for their bailout yet? If no, then it is an outrage. Taxpayers should be paid back first before the company starts doling out bonuses. If Citigroup has paid back their bailout cash then he could be paid one googillion dollars and I wouldn’t care.

Supporting big payouts to bailed out executives while opposing the same for firefighters is a bit of cognitive dissonance, wouldn’t you say?

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[quote=flu]Just curious, do you folks think paying someone $100million is an outrage if he/she brings in $600million?[/quote]

Has Citigroup paid back the taxpayers for their bailout yet? If no, then it is an outrage. Taxpayers should be paid back first before the company starts doling out bonuses. If Citigroup has paid back their bailout cash then he could be paid one googillion dollars and I wouldn’t care.

Supporting big payouts to bailed out executives while opposing the same for firefighters is a bit of cognitive dissonance, wouldn’t you say?

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[quote=flu]Just curious, do you folks think paying someone $100million is an outrage if he/she brings in $600million?[/quote]

Has Citigroup paid back the taxpayers for their bailout yet? If no, then it is an outrage. Taxpayers should be paid back first before the company starts doling out bonuses. If Citigroup has paid back their bailout cash then he could be paid one googillion dollars and I wouldn’t care.

Supporting big payouts to bailed out executives while opposing the same for firefighters is a bit of cognitive dissonance, wouldn’t you say?

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[quote=flu]Just curious, do you folks think paying someone $100million is an outrage if he/she brings in $600million?[/quote]

Has Citigroup paid back the taxpayers for their bailout yet? If no, then it is an outrage. Taxpayers should be paid back first before the company starts doling out bonuses. If Citigroup has paid back their bailout cash then he could be paid one googillion dollars and I wouldn’t care.

Supporting big payouts to bailed out executives while opposing the same for firefighters is a bit of cognitive dissonance, wouldn’t you say?

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Allan,

I’m not a Vietnam historian, but if the war was won as you claim, what were the motivations of Cronkite and the media in general in lying to the American public?

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Allan,

I’m not a Vietnam historian, but if the war was won as you claim, what were the motivations of Cronkite and the media in general in lying to the American public?

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Allan,

I’m not a Vietnam historian, but if the war was won as you claim, what were the motivations of Cronkite and the media in general in lying to the American public?

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Allan,

I’m not a Vietnam historian, but if the war was won as you claim, what were the motivations of Cronkite and the media in general in lying to the American public?

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Allan,

I’m not a Vietnam historian, but if the war was won as you claim, what were the motivations of Cronkite and the media in general in lying to the American public?

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A few weeks ago on NOVA Science Now I saw a segment about this and how the fix may be in, but many years off. The solution is diamond. Apparently they’ve figured out how to manufacture diamond so that it is indistinguishable from natural diamonds on both the atomic and visual level. The conductivity and insulation properties of diamond are the best in nature (a centimeter-thick diamond plate can withstand 10,000 volts) so many years down there line scientists foresee electricity being transmitted via diamond wires, circuits, batteries, etc.

The example they used was that modern day electric trains require something like 3-tons of battery equipment to operate. If these batteries were converted to diamond-based batteries, they would weight roughly three pounds… for the entire train’s battery system.

Now maybe this is just sci-fi stuff at this point, but maybe in 20, 50, 100 (?) years something like diamond will revolutionize the way we transport, store, and use electricity.

Here is the segment for those of you who are interested: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0401/01.html

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A few weeks ago on NOVA Science Now I saw a segment about this and how the fix may be in, but many years off. The solution is diamond. Apparently they’ve figured out how to manufacture diamond so that it is indistinguishable from natural diamonds on both the atomic and visual level. The conductivity and insulation properties of diamond are the best in nature (a centimeter-thick diamond plate can withstand 10,000 volts) so many years down there line scientists foresee electricity being transmitted via diamond wires, circuits, batteries, etc.

The example they used was that modern day electric trains require something like 3-tons of battery equipment to operate. If these batteries were converted to diamond-based batteries, they would weight roughly three pounds… for the entire train’s battery system.

Now maybe this is just sci-fi stuff at this point, but maybe in 20, 50, 100 (?) years something like diamond will revolutionize the way we transport, store, and use electricity.

Here is the segment for those of you who are interested: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0401/01.html

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