Goodness, but Obama and the Democrats have been busy the past few days.  Let' see:

• They fire Rick Wagoner, the CEO of a private corporation, and handpick a successor;
• Government Motors announces that it will make car payments for any customers who lose their jobs;
• John Kerry decides the 2nd Amendment is a piece of crap and announces his desire for increased gun control;
• Barney (Elmer Fudd) Frank continues to build his fiefdome and decideds to give Treasury control over salaries of employees working at private companies who receive government bailouts.  "Pay for Performance Act of 2009" -the government now controls the pay of all employees of any company receiving capital investment from the government. 
• Even better, it's all retroactive - the government can wipe out previously settled contracts and impose new rates of compensation;
• The government reserves the right to remove any senior management from private corporations receiving government capital and handpick the successors

Busy, busy, busy!   Thank you, everyone, who got out and voted Democrat last November.  We can now reap what we sow!

It does ... it makes me sick to my stomach.

You know what the giveaway is? Even if we acknowledged that the pay scale is out of whack, a true lover of the Constitution would ask that Congress debate pay levels publicly, instead of allowing the Treasury Secretary do it. I deny that this is a proper function of government anyway, but on the off chance that it is, the task would belong to the legislative branch.

Remember, Congress has the enumerated power to regulate commerce, which would be the only clause that could possibly authorize this. And, under the Constitution, the Congress can't "lend" its powers to different branches (that would desecrate the principle of separation of powers). I can't see any constitutional principle that would support a claim that the Treasury Secretary could manage wages.

Have you looked closely at the photo attached to this article?  Doesn't it appear that Obama's left hand in gettinng ready to pull a string behind Geithner's back, like one of those old-fashioned pull-string dolls with voice boxes?

I  knew Geithner was just a puppet of Obama.  Now I have photographic proof.  Quick, alert the media!

"In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."  George Orwell

"Brace yourselves for the backlash of your ignorance, liberal puppets."  Me

People aren't going to wake up to what is happening at all until it is far too late.

Simple as that. 

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

No you can't call Obama and the gang socialists. The proper term is Fascists. There is a difference. In a Socialist society the government owns and controls the means of production. In a Fascist society the government merely controls the means of production while ownership is in private hands.  Double check with Neal Boortz for a better explanation.

Now I know none of you like Wikipedia, but that was the easiest place to get an explanation of fascism from. So read it and weep. This is where we're heading along our way to Obama's Marxist state.

Fascism is a radical, authoritarian nationalist ideology that aims to create a single-party state with a government led by a dictator who seeks national unity and development by requiring individuals to subordinate self-interest to the collective interest of the nation or race.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Fascist movements promote violence between nations, political factions, and races as part of a social Darwinist and militarist stance that views violence between these groups as a natural and positive part of evolution.[9] In the view of these groups being in perpetual conflict, fascists believe only the strong can survive by being healthy, vital, and have an aggressive warrior mentality by conquering, dominating, and eventually eliminating people deemed weak and degenerate.[10][11][12][13]

Fascist governments permanently forbid and suppress all criticism and opposition to the government and the fascist movement.[14] Fascist movements oppose any ideology or political system that gives direct political power to people as individuals through elected representatives rather than as a collective nation or race (individualism, liberalism, representative democracy); that is deemed detrimental to national identity and unity (communism, class conflict oriented labour movements, internationalism, and laissez-faire capitalism); that protects and empowers people deemed weak and degenerate (egalitarianism) and that undermine the military strength and military ambitions of the nation (pacifism); that may seek to preserve any of the privileges, institutions and cultural values that fascism seeks to overthrow (traditionalism and conservatism).[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]

Following the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II and the publicity surrounding the atrocities committed during the period of fascist governments, the term fascist has been used as a pejorative word.

Any doubters?