Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
#1 the bonuses AIG paid out were less than what Merrill Lynch paid out earlier #2 The amount paid out was less than 1/10 of 1% of the bailout money.

This bonus mess is just a red herring....and Chris Dodd (DEMOCRAT) and Tim Geithner (DEMOCRAT) put it in the Omnibus bill that companies that were bailed out could keep giving bonuses. Calling in the GOVERNMENT APPOINTED CEO of AIG and berating him infront of Congress wasn't too smooth either.

I don't like the bonuses as they are in poor taste but people screaming for them to just seize those bonuses scare me....I don't want the government to get the idea that they can just take shit that people own not for taxation but "just because"


As always the Democrats talk a good game for the people but they NEVER deliver anything but higher taxes which they don't even fucking pay
The GOP were for paying bonuses before they were against paying them. They only came out against paying them when Americans started getting upset over guys the tax payer was bailing out getting bonuses. Both the GOP and the Democrats are bought and paid for by the financial industry and are keeping them in their jobs with trillions of dollars of taxpayer money. If the government hadn't bailed out firms like AIG then their employees would all be out of work. If the government really wanted to, and wasn't bought and paid for by the financial industry, they could have cancelled all those contracts/bonusus when they bailed the companies out.

The GOP over the last eight years have delivered permanently high taxes for the vast majority of your working life to come after spending the last thirty years redistributing wealth from 99% of Americans to guys like Mr. Cassano, pictured above. You can't blame the Democrats for that. You can blame them for a lot, but if you're blaming them for high taxes/screwing the economy up then the vast majority of the blame should be directed at the GOP.