Start at the Top

It seems to me that most of the major lenders having difficult times and requiring FDIC takeovers or government assistance to bail themselves out, also have a common thread in tremendously overpaid CEO's.  Wouldn't it be prudent for the government to require that all moneys received while guiding these financial institutions into ruin be returned BEFORE tax payer moneys are provided to bail them out?  I know it's a novel idea; but it's one that has it's roots in the small businesses throughout this country which operate under the principle that if the company makes no money, neither does the owner.