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I agree with the pay caps for those companies being bailed out. I don't think our best talent is running the companies that need a bail out.

I agree with the pay cap. If the current executives (that have run these companies into the ground) are the cream of the crop, we're all in big trouble. Surely there are CEO's with integrity still to be found - that understand you must operate with a "profit" before paying such salaries and bonuses....

Putting in temporary measures due to the unique economic situation is appropriate. However, once things improve, compensation should go back to market driven forces. Keeping the cap in place will drive talent elsewhere. Capping all executive compensation will most certainly dummy down our executive leadership...

The "foreigners" are in worse shape than we are hence I doubt they could steal ALL of the top "talent". Also, not all foreign institutions ascribe to short term incentive based compensation arrangements like we foolishly have....take Japan for instance...their executive pay is a multiple...

I agree with the $500,000 cap on executive pay. These salaries are now essentially being paid by American taxpayers, who in many cases are seeing no direct benefit (i.e. loan, mortgage, or credit relief from banks). Let's not forget...these executives are at companies that have performed so badly, that...

I disagree that executive should be capped anymore than a union autoworker or steelworker's pay should be capped. Let the free market influence such dynamics instead of some socialist belief. If we change one end then everyone including the highly overpaid bankers, lawyers, politicians and union workers...

I do believe that executive compensation has grown beyond where it should be compared to other rank and file employees but I have to wonder what hat the $500,000 mark was pulled out of. In the short time it took to pass this bill was there any thought given to the effect of the cap other than it looked...

I agree that there should be caps on the exec pay when the government is helping in the bail-out situation. If they want more money than they should work for a company that is stable enough not to need assistance from the government. Don't you think that the "HIGH SOCIETY" levels are what's putting this...

I'm not so much in favor of capping executive compensation as much as I am in favor of executive compensation consultants/boards giving honest advice. The head of Merril Lynch said last fall they had to pay huge bonuses or executive talent would leave. Really? How many employed financial investment...

I disagree that there will or may be an exodus of the "best and brightest of our financial geniuses",since few countries pay bonuses at that level.