House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., left, talks with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, right, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, on Capitol Hill Tuesday, March 24,2009. Frank’s committee has passed a bill giving Geithner extensive control over salaries of employees working at companies receiving government bailout funds. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Is this really where we, as Americans, want to be?

In our great drive to put coveteousness  into action, do we really want the US Government now telling everyone just how much money they can make?

Where are our students of history?? Can no one remember what happens when the private sector is no longer private? Are we all just a bunch of lemmings?

Why were there no neurosurgeons on hand to help out Natasha Richardson after her head injury? Had too many left for other countries (read the US) where they could actually make what they are worth?

If we allow the US Government to start regulating who can accept and who can reject bailout money (see Wells Fargo) and THEN put salary controls on everyone in the companies who accept bailout money. . . we will quickly see The Great Brain Drain of the Obama years as our best and brightest will go elsewhere. Look at Jim Rogers for an example.

Loyalty will only take you so far. Smart and gifted Americans, who are worth their salaries, will decide NOT to stay in a country that punishes achievers.