AP: 9 in 10 execs at bailout banks remain on job

[IDemo]

Bosses whose banks made risky loans are now counted on to save system

AP -updated 3:26 a.m. MT, Tues., Jan. 27, 2009

WASHINGTON - They've been bailed out, but not kicked out.

At banks that are receiving federal bailout money nearly nine out of every 10 of the most senior executives from 2006 are still on the job, according to an Associated Press analysis of regulatory and company documents.

The AP's review reveals one of the ironies of the bank bailout: The same executives who were at the controls as the banking system nearly collapsed are the ones the government is counting on to help save it.

Even top executives whose banks made such risky loans they imperiled the economy have been largely spared any threat to their jobs, as Washington pumped billions in taxpayer money into the companies. Less fortunate are more than 100,000 bank employees laid off during a two-year stretch when industry unemployment nearly tripled, bank stocks plummeted and credit dried up.

snip -- "When you deal with the same dogs, you're going to end up with the same fleas,"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28869701/

[KittyWampus]

1. Give them all a medal of freedom.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Republiconomics lives !

Nothing spells FAIL quite like the republicon WAY of doing bidness.