Do bankers who took taxpayer money have any right to complain about restrictions?

[Socrates'Dog]

"Is this America -- when you do what your government asks you to do and then retroactively you also have additional conditions?," rails Wells Fargo CEO Richard Kovacevich, according to Bloomberg.

One response to Kovacevich - and other executives like JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon who've complained about TARP-related restrictions - is simple: If you don't like it and don't need it, just return the money.

Would it be more American to simply give bank executives hundreds of billions of dollars and allow them pay themselves billions in bonuses at taxpayer expense?

 

[oohhbother]

I did see a news article that a couple of the banks are looking at buying back the preferred stock that the government took in exchange for the bailout $ to get the government off their back.

So apparently they DIDN'T just hand away the money.