# Anybody else see the U.S. credit rating drop?

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**Created:** [August 5, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-see-the-u-s-credit-rating-drop/259802 "2011-08-05T19:12:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 9:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-see-the-u-s-credit-rating-drop/259802/67 "2011-08-09T09:16:55Z")

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> [@How do you feel about Pepboys](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-feel-about-pepboys/44476/53):
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> Who gave those companies bailouts? The government not the rich people. You actually couldn’t be farther from the truth, you can’t punish a person or company specifically after you bail them out, not only do we not have the right, but it is unconstitutional.
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> Read article 1 section 9 on the limits of congress  
> -No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
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> You can’t just pick a specific group of people and tax the shit out of them. Remember when they talked a bout a 90% tax on the bonus’ they couldn’t do it because not only is it unethical, it is unconstitutional.
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> What do you expect to happen when you bailout a company that has contracts with employees to get bonus’ regardless of performance? the companies will have to pay them.

+1. It’s either the company pay those bonuses, or the company loses money after being sued for breach of contract by it’s employees.

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