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Nothing can be done now, Congress is powerless and will do nothing but have ANOTHER HEARING........big whoop and the banks will get away with it, they always do. The Taxpayers of America are powerless.

Not so, the Treasury (and Obamabot) knew that AIG was a) eligible to pay the bonus and b) was going to pay them.

The problem isn't a lack of info. The problem is congress NOT READING THE BILLS THEY VOTE INTO LAW.

avg.joe – Government bailouts need to stop? So then you must have been livid when bush and paulson bailed out the banks back in September 08 huh??????

Yeah. Or Congress will step in to fix it........ That's a good one.......

I am shocked to hear about this! Shocked, I tell you.

To think that the government squandered this money is just hard to believe. No one would have imagined this lack of transparency and accountability.

1. Obama says "tranparency"
2. Everyone cheers
3. Big Corporations give Big Money to Obama and others
4. The banks / Wall St does what it wants

That is the whole plan, plain and simple.

The mere fact that they can't or won't disclose where the money went prove that they are not only incompetent but are too big and should be downsized. If we get out of this mess the first thing that should be done is pass regulations to break these big comglomerates up and put sensible legislation to monitor what these guys are doing. Banks should do banking, investment firms should do investing, etc, etc. This mysterious interwining makes it easy to hide a lot of things and they certainly have. That's one of the reasons we are where we are. Any future money should require that every dime be accounted for. If they refuse, we refuse the help.

so much for transparancy and accountability!

Geitner must go!

What a bunch of baloney. The banks are now telling us they do not know how the TARP money was used? If their management of funds are so lax no wonder they are in trouble.
Why can they not be subphonied to provide this info? They should
not get one penny more until they become transparent on how they
handled their previous bailout.

Bwhahahahahahahaha!!!!! Do you really think a Democratic Congress, or a Dem TOTUS, or any other liberal cares how this money is spent? They'd only care if a Republican was spending the money.

Government bailouts need to stop. If the Government is going to continue bailing out these big corporations that have already made billions from the American People, the small businesses will not be able to compete. If the government would just let the Giants fall the small businesses would pick up the pieces and grow. The individuals that lose their jobs in the big companies would find jobs at the small businesses that would be growing.

Both the Bush and Obama administrations have treated the financial sector as though they are somehow magical and sacrosanct and the money we taxpayers are providing to bail these jerks out of the mess they got our economy in is none of our business. IF everything the banks are doing now is so honest and above-board, there should be no reason for the banks not to be more accountable for the money given them.

We will never get more information on bailout money being spent. THe Administration and Congress do not want us to know so we will not get mad at them. AIG bonuses and CEO pay are nothing more than distractions from what Congress did the last 2 1/2 years.

If I can recall my business law class, that I took for my degree, correctly, isn't co-mingling funds illegal? Could someone, at CNN, please research this for the tax paying citizens and myself, and do an investigative report on this matter.

Thank you,

Odd, isn't it, that the chair of the Oversight Panel is complaining that there is a lack of oversight. Who's bailiwick is that Madam, chairwoman?

The US Treasury hasn't had control of our economy since 1918. You want a stable economy without having to constantly blow up other countries? – abolish the Fed. It's not part of our government anyhow...

No one's going to be held accountable for this – the richest people are also those who write the books. God bless American plutocracy.

You won't get it! This is the biggest heist in history.

The first principle of government of the people, by the people, and for the people, is never tell the people. What you don't know can't hurt the idiots who pass the laws.

For all of Obama's promises about transparency, we still don't know how much money went to which institutions and the criteria for deciding who got what. We also don't know how the money was spent by the banks. Does anyone else have a problem with this wasteful transfer of wealth?

Give them more scoop on the bail out plan. We need to know, too, of the tax payers' moneys are bein' spent, rationally or irrationally. Let somebody do the enlightenin'.

It looks like the oversight is in place. If the problem is with the Treasury Dept., some action needs to be taken. Transparency is what was missing with the first 350 billion. Now that it's in place, we can correct the problem.