I pity the idiot who tries to commit mass murder in a shooting range. That's a one-way express ticket to hell.

No he's not, he's demonizing business and the wealthy in general in a rant that would get a standing ovation at any Occupy rally. Conservatives by definition are free market capitalists. As such we don't demonize business or the wealthy. There is a market for corporate executives, just like there's a market for corn. And if an exec is paid ostentatiously it's because that's what the market decided he's worth. Capitalists don't care how much people make. That's their business. And we most CERTAINLY don't care how they SPEND what they make. Only communists get outraged about those things. Now, the CEOs in this story may be worthy of degradation, but not for the reasons Drama is ranting about. He's spouting Marxist insanity.

Hey Drama, I think you're on the wrong website. The Brain-Dead American Commie Association website is somewhere else. Please move along, I'm sure they are missing you desperately.

Ultra, I admire your mental toughness, I really do. The problem is that Obama has 4 years to institutionalize his nation-killing policies. Obamacare alone is enough to take us down, and that's just one piece of the fatal picture. Even if we retake both houses of Congress in 2014 it will not matter. It will be too late. The fundamental transformation is a done deal. November 6th was the pivot point for this country, and we took a hard left into the swamp. We will be remembered as the greatest nation the world has ever seen, but it's all in the rear-view at this point.

Well if it comes to that then all bets are off. But history tells me that populations are incredibly slow to forcefully throw off the yoke, so to speak.

You're deluding yourself, he's not feeling any heat at all. He doesn't care. His faux outrage is for the cameras only. He knows his administration is untouchable. This "investigation" is a waste of time and money and will yield nothing but frustration. It should be abandoned.

ATL, what good is ambition is there's no possibility of a payoff? This country just re-elected an America-hating, business-demonizing Marxist nation killer. We are not allowed to succeed on our own merits.

Funny you should mention this, I was just talking to someone about trying to get my wife on disability. Gotta change with the times, right? All of us "earners/savers" are dinosaurs, as those on the left are quick to remind us. I'm trying to figure out how to fundamentally transform myself into a "system gamer." It's a new world out there folks.

Things have really changed for me after the election. I look at headlines like this and I say "why bother?" Folks, it's clear that this stuff just doesn't matter anymore. The American people just don't care. This is all a waste of time. Even if a few Republican legislators were able to break through all the obfuscation to actually pin blame on someone, nothing will ever happen to anyone involved. Like so many other things since the election, this is an exercise in futility.

sqrt(cos(180)), WTF do you mean "it doesn't mean that Social Security was and always will be (until it fails utterly) a Ponzi scheme."? It is close enough to being a true ponzi scheme that the differences have very little meaning. And in its current form it most certainly "always will be" a ponzi scheme because it's IMPOSSIBLE to shore it up at this point. How exactly do you propose that we put trillions of dollars BACK into an account somewhere in order to get this program back to what it was originally sold to be? There is not enough wealth in the world at any given point to make SS whole. Social Security is the single greatest crime perpetrated by any person, entity or government in the history of this world.

You are ignorant beyond belief. Your generalities are insane. A parasitic relationship requires that one of the 2 parties involved contributes NOTHING to the arrangement. Do the CEO's employees get paid and get various benefits? Do the banker's investors get paid? Even the government provides services in return for the taxes they take in, even though they provide those services in the most corrupt and inefficient possible ways. The old are not parasites because in general they have done their share in this country. They have contributed. So while there are certainly parasites amongst every category you can think of, this kind of thinking is twisted and pathetically ignorant.