A.I.G. Bonus Rage is Useless & Harms Efforts to Shore up Economy:

----the real cuplrits....like Joseph Cassano, the former head of AIG's London "financial products division" is counting his money in retirement.....

----pounding AIG is destroying AIG's value and harming taxpayers

----it's beside the point----the bigger issue is the money AIG funneled to its counter-parties, especially Goldman Sachs....

----it's destabilizing----how can anyone run any company when the rules keep getting changed?

----it's aiding and abetting rethugs....who are loving this


etc......

<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/business/21nocera.html?ref=business>

AIG, especially in the past few years, has become a giant scam whose purpose was to gamble risk -- they lost and now we get to pay.

And people like the author of the NYT article and apparently Obama and Geithner act like we are supposed to feel privileged to be bailing out the con artists.

Pain is coming one way or another ... we can go hundreds of billions of dollars into debt and still experience the pain, or we can let AIG fold and suffer the pain now (and hopefully get it over with sooner).

The outrage at the bonuses is symbolic, most of us understand that -- it is time to end this corporate 'rescue' scheme that is simply transferring even more of our wealth to the Wall Street elite.

... but the cancer in my pancreas ..."

Well, you get my meaning,, don't you?

...should just shut up about the greed of the upper class that put us in this mess that the AIG bonuses represent?

I say we have ignored the greed too long, its healthy for our society to get upset about it after the last 30 years of being sheep.

continues to lie

What makes people presume to tell others how to feel, and worse, have the audacity to tell others their feelings are somehow fucking up our collective ability to resolve some greater issue? Bullshit! :banghead:

Personally, I felt that people thinking it appropriate to murder Arabs because of their irrational feelings about 9/11 were somehow fucking up our collective ability to conduct rational foreign policy, and I had the audacity to tell them so.

What an asshole I am.

what your post is even saying

I just read this article. The armed robbers are counting their cash, and we are ready to lynch the pickpockets.