WASHINGTON – Mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plan to pay more than $210 million in bonuses through next year to give workers the incentive to stay in their jobs at the government-controlled companies.

The retention awards for more than 7,600 employees were disclosed in a letter from the companies' regulator released Friday by Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee. The companies paid out nearly $51 million last year, are scheduled to make $146 million in payments this year and $13 million in 2010.

"It's hard to see any common sense in management decisions that award hundreds of millions in bonuses when their organizations lost more than $100 billion in a year," Grassley said in a statement. "It's an insult that the bonuses were made with an infusion of cash from taxpayers."

Thought this would be a dyson thread

it will probably turn into one.

I heard Potts highschool nickname was ManVac

not sure what it means

Turbo model?

I don't know....

I heard he's handled more sausage than Bob Evans

ya gotta wonder about folk that design good, reliable sucking appliances

that dyson dude does look a little light in his loafers and don't even get me started on j. edgar hoover

coinkadink?

they suck too?

I dunno .... we should ask potts

My understanding of the definition of Bonus is different.

is your definition of bonus more of an invitation?

Nope.

Bonus is what horny twins say in the pornos.

^ thats what I was thinking

was a vacuum involved?

no Potts wasn't available

Thanks for thinking of me, teedubbya, but I was busy.

That being said: I'm outraged.

The bill to tax the AIG bonuses has "quietly died in committee." Something about Constitutional difficulties.