Top Goldman Sachs (GS) execs take no bonuses

Congratulations and thank you to the executives of Goldman Sachs for setting a fine example for all corporate executives to follow in these difficult economic times. When companies ask their employees to make sacrafices, and endure layoffs it is comforting to see the top executives shrae in the sacrafices.
I is also comforting to the shareholders.

OK, so the top 7 didn't take the bonus. kudos.. How about the other billions in bonus being paid out to the rest of them. No big deal usually, however the 25 billion dollars that they just got from the taxpayers should preempt all bonuses. Especially for all the fraud collision and mishandling of funds that helped cause this fiasco!

I'll give credit where credit is due... GOOD JOB! Let's hope that those who need to follow suit.

Funny I found this article in fine print while "Citi cuts 50K jobs" is in big bolt print on my sign in page.

Ugh.

Good they should give up their bonuses. In these times where every day Joesephine's are switching to generic toilet paper and watching our pennies, it is criminal for these execs to get obscene bonuses especially given the poor performances of their companies

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Every single CEO and counter part who receives a bonus this year should give it back. It's the right thing to do especially in AIG's case how do these people sleep at night knowing that they helped in some way with this issue. Enron was the warning that something was coming down the pipe it's to bad the government didn't pay better attention to that blip on the map.

It's about time someone got it!!! Now if the milionaires and billionaires in congress and the Senate woud follow Goldman maybe we could dig ourselves out of the hole they put us in.

I am now playing the worlds smallest violin for these fat cats. They are thieves and will always be thieves.
Who is going to bail me out?

Ok... I'll give them some credit... for now. Thanks for no bonuses this year, but I don't expect you to keep up this act for long though. At least wait til the economy is back up, then continue fattening your wallets, I would.

Why is the government giving money to a firm to support the stockholders AND allow bonuses to other employees. Some of these bonuses will be over $100,000. Why are these employees and the firm's shareholder so deserving of out money. Heck, they already have salaries being paid to them. I just don't understand what rules the government does bailouts and kicks the taxpayer in the other pocket by allowing ANY bonuses at all for these firms.

AIG is still doing first class plane flights and paying significant bonuses also. Where does this crap stop!
Tom

big fricken waaaaah... who cares. now maybe just maybe they will quit playin with the working peoples money and I hope they will know what it feels like to struggle..why the hell are they needing bonuses with the ridiculous amount of money they make already?

Come on it is a ruse,,, a tiger can't change their stripes and these are greedy wall street bank people,,,they may forego the fat cat bonus but you can bet the company will comensate them some other way,, they will just not call it a bonus,,, like maybe a rolls royce for their birthay ar something like that,,,' half of them shoud be in jail not crying about thier bounus

Well it looks like one of the companies who we the American Taxpayers helped bailout got the message for now... How long it lasts is anyone's guess. Me thinks that they need to cut their income, too... if even by 25,000 or 50,000 a year, it would help...if not more... Let's hope a couple of other companies follow suit... From the looks of it, AIG won't be playing follow the leader... they still don't get it.

Considereded HEROES?? Their stock dropped from $247 to $67. Seems like common sense, not heroic. How warped is that?!

Hey there thinking,,,,,,,don't buy this PR move. They will make sure they get the cash one day and out of site.

There shouldn't be any congratulations offered to these execs who have opted to not getting a bonus when tax payers are footing the bill. There should be no question about it at all. Of course they should get NO bonuses for leading their company down the drain and helping cause one of the most disastrous world financial crisis we've seen yet.

This is a joke, they will just give themselves more $$ next year to make up for it.

Goldman's Days--As a HEDGE FUND--Are Over, If Ever Their Was A 45.00 Stock--This Is It. The Next 12 Months--Will Be A Hard Market, To Make A Buck In, Especially For Goldman.
EMIL J KOVACH JR

I'm surprised no one has taken out one of these greedy corporate execs yet

since when does anyone deserve any bonus for a company losing money ? it is supposed to be a reward or incentive for good results, not failure.

Excellent, now we can give more to the greedy idiots at AIG