Bailing out companies with taxpayer moneys was and still is a double edged sword, precisely the reason that doing so was catastrophic in every sense of the word. In this story, we learned that certain companies are very likely to be on the receiving end of significant restrictions in compensation. The seven companies are: Bank of America Corp., American International Group Inc., Citigroup Inc., General Motors, GMAC, Chrysler and Chrysler Financial.Total compensation for the top executives at the seven firms will decline, on average, by about 50 percent, according to the person familiar with the administration's decision. Great. So now we have a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. These corporations owe us quite a bit of money, hundreds of billions that could be used to stymie our deficit. Their ability to pay back the money largely depends on a notion that our country will magically recover, an impossible event without a ...