Reaction: AIG bailout bonuses

[mastior]

Look Up IG Farben Noted the MOST Notorious Corp on Earth. 16 of 20 of their executives AND BUSH were charged as War Criminals 1945. War Crimes Court ordered IG to Defunct Immediately. AIG is IG FARBEN. SAME ALUMNI Bush owned Silesian Steel in Auschwitz Forced Jews to make Steel for HITLER murdered the Frail, shared offices with JOSEPH MENGELE. BUSH ALSO created Senators and Congressmen out of HITLERS Henchmen. LOOK up Trilateral Members They infiltrated EA STATE Do NOT Vote Trilateral COMMIES

[LutzfromPS2]

The fact that these AIG bastards even have the balls to ask for a bonus, wow. You failed the company and you want a bonus? The company is bankrupt, these guys are idiots asking for a bonus. Thats just like me failing miserably at my job and walking up to the boss and asking for a bonus and him saying, sure, why not, you did a good job. I guess when you work wallstreet, you have golden parachutes waiting for you if you suck at your job. LOL

[LutzfromPS2]

What motivation do these guys have for doing a good job when they are not accoutable for their actions? This is not a "loan" by any means, they do not have to pay this money back to the taxpayers. This county is headed downhill fast.

[LutzfromPS2]

What purpose does it serve for me to be "financially responsible" for my debts when these AIG scumbags are stealing money from tax payers? These guys are buying their 2nd or third house's while im getting more and more into debt. This bailout debt is being put on my back while these scumbags are reaching into my pockets and robbing me blind. I live in a country where is better to be financially irresponsibe than to be responsible and to pay off your debt. I feel like im bleeding out of my ass.

[30percentplusreturns]

Barney frank and Dodd caused this whole mess. Im so sick of these fraudulent politicians running around. Its like the fox protecting the henhouse. This country is a godam joke these days and im ashamed to be an American!!!!!!!! This is lunacy. Obama has been in office almost a year and not one thing has been done to regulate derivatives or to put back glass steagal. This is godam insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where are the idictments?? Why arent the ratings agencies in handcuffs?? What about paulson???

[h8tebred]

Get rid of Dodd so they can crack down on AIG. It's that simple.

[TheAmefist]

Every single executive in AIG is going to burn in hell.

[NoEoAoRo]

Every single politician who cynically voted to give these banks tax payer money will burn in hell.

[ewnowak]

@TheAmefist ,

These guys don't worry about hell. Religion is for the hapless sheep, invented by the rich and powerful to keep them from getting restless- "Life is hard and you must suffer a lot, but don't worry, you will go to heaven when you die"!

[MishuTaste]

If you're angry about the AIG bonus and Chris Dodd's amendment, support Peter Schiff.

[crackerdude1]

Why do they give AIG so much money every single day! 185 billion bucks the government did the wrong thing giving those bastards money they should've left them behind to rot because they are sucking up are money!

[NoEoAoRo]

The politicians are just looking out for their core interests. For example, Obama's campaign benefitted greatly from Wall Street and big bank donations.

[awwcrap1]

Don't blame the greedy fucks at aig etc-Blame the fuckers in washington dc that voted to give our money to this private sector

[NoEoAoRo]

You are absolutely correct. It's amazing how easy politicians can deflect blame and how easily many people are decieved.

[Budma30k]

These executives at AIG that got the Bonuses were not there during its collapse.The Governmnet promised ,that if these Executives went to work to save AIG they would get paid 1 dollar a year and a bonus.Now all you fucking retards are up in arms because a guy wants a check.How about fuck the asshole who works on the GM assembley line ,they got money as well .70 an hour to put a hood on a car.,pleaseMost of you who bitch about AIG never pay taxes at all ,so shut up.

[SlackJawedJackal]

The problem is this is not a bailout for people that work. This is welfare for Jews.

Nothing less than street thugs that have orchestrated a scam.

[moniequa]

That is what I'm saying.  If they want to do somehting about buy AIG stocks so the company doesn't have to depend on tax dollars anymore.

[malcolmxward]

ITs all Bull.. no matter what.. Big Companies like that or any other companies as well. are at there own fault for over productions, and bad deals. and Should not be up to the government to Bail them out. A waste of money, especially when it can go to something new. this Bail out for AIG only went to pay off what they can, and PAy there pockets before it goes Down and out again. Rich get Richer. and the poor get poorer. First stop the war. and save BILLIONS!!

[moniequa]

How can the rich get richer and the poorer get poorer when the poorer don't even pay taxes. Don't tell me their $8/hr salary and their welfare checks contribute to this country. If you want to save billions tell those stupid poor ass people to go to work and stop spending money they don't have.

[ewnowak]

@moniequa ,

Hey dumb ass! And why is it that they're only getting $8/hr while health care insurance company CEOs get $10-20million for NOT providing health care. It's because the system is rigged - "... government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations ..." .

[moniequa]

Ewnowak, not everyone wants to be rich, most poor do the minimum to get by and that's it. CEOs make millions because they want too and there is nothing you can do about it. So shut up I don't hear anymore from your worthless ass.

[ewnowak]

@moniequa ,

Hey birdbrain,

You didn't answer my question. What do the CEOs do to EARN the $millions they get?

Answer: Nothing! They get it because, under our corrupt fascist system, they CAN!

FYI - Definition: Fascism is a political ideology that seeks to combine radical and authoritarian nationalism with a corporatist economic system, and which is usually considered to be on the far right of the traditional left-right political spectrum.

[moniequa]

Hey Peabrain,

You can't do a damn thing about it. I know its a corrupt system you don't need to define it for me. The poor benefit from this shit too, load forgiving program, never ending unemployment benefit, get to live in the house they can't afford, clunker program, and many others. The super rich and fucking poor are all parasites. So shut up I don't want to hear about it.

[celticlofts]

I think a lot of people are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. I give these current financial difficulties a lifespan of a year at most. Yes some businesses will go bust but the vast majority will recover and prosper. Overall I think the whole system will be a lot healthier.

[moniequa]

That is what I'm saying, that is why I bought AIG stocks and I already profitted already.

[jeffmonc]

The question should be - if you were a smug parasite that had never done anything in your life but place bets on hedge funds with someone else's money would you accept more?

[pig5689]

AIG execs are typical money-grubbing whoring skunks shamelessly bowing to & worshiping the almighty dollar. They are idolaters robed in $2,000 pinstriped suits, a cancer deliberately eating away at the heart of our morals. There's no respect anymore for the average Joe. It seems 2 out of 3 YouTubers take the side of the bonus-whores. Yeah? Well anyone that supports this travesty can use their misplaced judgments & theories & their mouth as a toilet. These creatures of support are devils.

[fjwjr]

Wait a minute. Congress is more responsible for the fall of AIG than these guys are and congress just voted themselves a petty cash fund of $93,000 per person, per year (looks like a bonus to me), but nobody is mad at them because they turned down the puny $4,700 per year pay raise!?

These execs were entitled to these bonuses. AIG was contractually obligated to pay them. Congress approved it. Giethner approved it. Obama approved it. Then they get pissy about it and get people mad at the execs?!

[im4wur]

Some call these "bailouts". However, bearing in mind that the new economic model we seem to be adopting is one where we privatize profit and socialize loss. I'm begining to call them: "Heads I win. Tails you lose, America".

This country is sick with GREED! At this point the only question is whether it's terminal.

[CognosSquare]

Incredible video about the AIG executive who would not return his bonus:

watch?v=E7zG3vbhQcs

[danboone143]

The "justification" given for the bonuses was that they were necessary to retain the skilled people necessary to fix the problem.

This of course is utterly peurile nonsense. These same people who are being retained are responsible for the corrupt, questionable and utterly reckless manner in which they ran their business.

We shouldn't be talking bonuses, we should be talking prison sentences for them all, starting with Joseph Cassano.

[bbb131421]

right on. retain them so they can screw us again in the future. no way. i say fire them.

[jagmorr]

AIG executives should decline their bonuses if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives give up theirs, otherwise, they are entitled to them.

[sysopkc]

You cant legislate morality, this is a moral hazard of the worst kind! Its pandoras box! This has never worked in human history, these people are idiots we are destroying our financial framework and losing our wealth and sovereignty to Government and foreign financial intrests, Hell where do you think most of the money went, AIG alone hold 20% of Chinese casualty policies ALONE and at least 15% total in India...The Government is GIVING away YOUR money to foreign entities VIA "bailout".

[sysopkc]

hahaha its the American GOVT.! thats killing the American taxpayer. This is the worst kind of bill of attainder imaginable... A plague on both your houses sir. HAHA I swear Americans are as dumb as doornails. The original bonus retention was written INTO the bailout, they even removed the caps!! haha. Don't you get it? Your getting hustled by your own Government. This is a power grab over private contractual oversights by Govt. They are taking your liberties away! Dont you get it?

[liquidbend]

Companies.... like AIG..... need to stop screwing the american people . And its there Greed that is killing the middle class americans.

[UFCaz]

AIG is the least of the Problems for US Economy, this is an Economy that is been going down since Reagan decided to reward wealth instead of labour, with his small government nonsense causing the erosion of common sense regulation. just watch CNN a bunch of so called Economist talking shit in your ears all day and night, at the end of the day? They havent made a single roll of toilet paper to wipe their asses with.

Reward Manufacturing not wall street paper pushers.

[bootlegpreacher]

They were just doing what they were paid to do. They were given Billions BECAUSE they failed. If the were successful they would not get free moneythey would have their taxes raised. This is why people were against the bailout BEFORE it happened. What did you expect? and what about the people GIVING the bonuses? Whay are they only after those who recieved them?

[DeafObama]

A.I.G. = Atom invisible Greedy!

[rdt1970]

im not aig employee nor a us citizen but its 100% wrong taking bounus from bailout money period. we have the same problem here in the uk but gov here does everything to help failing bank and sod all to help people getting evicted by the same bloody banks...poor government here in this shity little island will never change

[fullstack2]

That one dude was hit it right on the nail, clean them out. Fire all of them. Put some hardworking fresh blood in the chairs that will work for less than half of there salaries. C R O O K S !!!!!!

[fullstack2]

There is a cold place for these execs that would make hell look like paradise for these low life cock roach scumbags. I would not feed them the dog crap on my shoe if they were starving.

God bless president Obama for taking action. if it were Bush he would have turned a blind eye like the typical republican he is.

[neobootsonious]

Dump Pelosi, Frank, Dodd, Geitner, Rangle.

[hawk100375]

add special envoy richard holbrooke to that list as well as obama

[wbtaylor1]

The obama admin has done a great job of making American look the other way on this AIG thing. While we are so upset that 120 million of 180 Billion has gone to American employees, 90 Billion goes out the doors of AIG to pay prop up banks in other countries.

Obama is a master of deception. Did the press happen to mention that Obama himself took $101,000.00 from A.I.G.? Of course not! The press is too afraid of being called racist if they accuse Obama of being what he REALLY is. A THUG!

[madashell1200]

Its time for americans to stop being so passive about this and get violent with these bailed out corporations since congress isn't doing anything about these scandals except giving away more money. I hope someone kills these corporate executives, right after they force them to watch their families have their eyes mutilated with rusted barbed wire. Anyone who uses bailout money for bonuses for their corupt and inept employees should be publicly executed. Fuck Berny Madoff too.

[yadi270]

All this AIG problem would not be happening if they did not get bail out in the first place. That proves the stupidity of the federal government for bailing out big companies. Now, the federal government is pointing its finger at AIG? How does that work? PEOPLE!!!!! Let's overthrow the government NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!!! We are being slaved. Politicians are our employees not our bosses. THAT IS OUR MONEY AND THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT WHAT WE SAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[WayofChaos]

i agree yadi270 if the government goes through with and passes this unconstitutional bill everybody who signs off on it should be impeached! the people should rise up and take back the United States of America! we need to overhaul this corrupt system, when our only voting options are democrap and repukelican it's like choosing between 2 bowls of shit with different smells!

[pennieless]

if the democrats are so fucking outraged about the a.i.g bonus then will they be willing to give back the money they got from a.i.g ???? Dodd, Frank, Rangle........ come on you stinking back stabbing fuck-turds. fuck ALL you pricks.

[WayofChaos]

pennieless don't forget obama himself! he also accepted money from aig!

[killergames187]

The GOV new about this people!!Bush and Obama did the in all the bailout bills!!!Obama is lying his ass off by saying "i did not know about this".Look it up it was all over the news for weeks and weeks!!!

[SavageJim01]

bail this, bail that, bail all these damn corporations, but where the hell is my bailout? I owe a mere $150,000 in debt yet these jokers get BILLIONS????

In reality, this band-aid fixes had BETTER also include an extensive look at our free trade policies. This unrestricted free trading and WTO BS is what put us into this mess to begin with. It took alomost 2 decades for free trade to screw us, but is is here now and it is doing it big time to us!

[mnnh1]

They get enough billions from the taxpayer to pay themselves big fat bonuses for causing their company to nearly go under! Nice to know just how well our tax dollars are being spent!

[detroitsports77]

hell yeah clean house and all these career politicians too. clean em all out!!!!!!!!! while were at it, cut the strings on their fucking golden parachutes too. make em live like the working man. see how they like it.

[BarackHussObama]

Thank you citizens for your unending support, keep united! This is the only reason to live, just to die for Allah and take down the infidel. This small task is complete, the funds are transferred to the Pakistani leader. Thanks U.S. taxpayers. It is now time to live the higher law of Jihad. This country, AIG and soon others, will go down with me to the bottomless pit. Harra for Allah. Peace and salutations be upon you brother. السلام إله الانتصارات Masha'Allah!

[PurpleHazeGoofyGrape]

bail, bail, bail your company gently down the stream....

[henrynzidane24an]

All of the foreigners and elderly were a lot more intelligent than the fucking stereotypical american responses. God dammit how can a society be so ignorant.

[SolBro14]

How is the response of the old English sounding lady at 1:38 more intelligent than the other responses? Yeah, that was a REALLY enlightening response...dumbass. Dumbass Americans like yourself that can never miss an opportunity to cannibalize yourself and fellow country men. For the record, only the response at 1:20 and the one at the very end came close to sounding remotely deep.

[henrynzidane24an]

It doesn't have to be fucking deep just knowledgeable. The British woman states tax payers money have a better job to do. Thats concise and correct, compared to the abomination during 1:03. heheh dumbass americans like myself.

[bikersrule07]

well said, im english, and you are $100 % right, im sick of the world complaining about Americans, and dumb ass Americans haveing a go at them selfs, but I doubt he is American, as there are alot of people on youtube who pretend to be American and type stuff like this, its all very sad... stand up for your self America...

[PragaSong]

The exemption to pay these bonuses was expressly written into the 700 billion stimulus bill.

The same outraged politicians are the very ones who voted for the rushed stimulus bill.

Therefore, anyone who voted for the bill should be impeached for gross negligence.

[SoldierNOTMartyr]

Lmao "Yes we need to clean house".

[CarlisleUnited]

All of these people are lying lol, if somebody offered you a million dollars you wouldn't go no would you? I know morals tell you to say no but if you are put in that position you would be singing a different tune!

[TwiceRecorded]

haha i love the old dude. "we need to clean house"

[syndicatewizard]

kudos to the second interviewee for being honest.

[aahayford]

its so easy to say you wouldnt take any bonuses. Humans are naturally greedy... they all lied,

[Doll2007Doll]

This is why there are CEOs, otherwise everyone would do what they wanted. Would I take a free bonus? of course, almost anyone. The CEO should be help responsible in my view.

[aahayford]

not the CEO who came to the company after the contracts for these bonuses were already signed. they are legal contracts, and no CEO or member of govt should have the power to reverse a legally binding agreement if they are not based on illegal actions. i agree on the 90% tax that congress just passed on tarp funded bonuses. however, the treatment that liddy got yesterday was distasteful considering the fact that he isn't responsible and is actually taking a $1 per year salary for being CEO.

[hellotommy]

Welcome, taxpayers, to the Kabuki Theater of AIG Outrage - where DC's Best Performance of Hypocritical Indignation is showing. Spare me President Obama's finger-wag. He's "outraged?" Meh. Chris Dodd, the corporate crony who is the largest recipient of AIG donations, Obama is the 4th. If we hadn't bailed out AIG = no bonuses for greedy execs.

Bailout-a-palooza is not a good for all you naive voters that voted for hope & change without knowing what it meant. It's not American Idol, vote smart.

[tmprogram]

aig is only the surface. people need to riot!

[Doll2007Doll]

Is the inerviewer saying that because a portion of the funds went to fulfill OBLIGATIONS abroad, AIG Execs are entitled to bonuses..?!

[Doll2007Doll]

The question SHOULD BE: if you were the AIG CEO would you pay the bonuses! don't turn this around. Are these bonuses for being bailed out?. If AIG was let to go down, NO ONE will be getting any bonuses.. how would their previously signed contract apply then.. same rationale to NOT give these bonuses.

[wyattrashbug]

isnt it funny that obama knew about these bonus's ??

chris dodd was the one that put the amendment into the bailout bill for them...

and obama acts shocked about it

(he knew about these months ago)

[adriansalamandre]

Atrocious

Incompetent

Greed

[BFD585]

WAKE UP AMERICA

AIG is not the one to blame. It is the Politicians that agreed to give them the money.

Call your representative in Washington.

[melodymaker65]

the only bonus they should be getting is the jail cell next to BERNIE MADOFF

[SouthsideBuddy]

Maybe AIG should be arrested for operating a Ponzi scheme .You can't profit from a felony. They created and sold a policy guaranteeing home loans. They should be in jail.

[GoJohnPaul]

I think everyone should know who these employees were. I found a list of names at hubpages. I did a search for AIG Bonuses, the first site that came up had a list of AIG Executives. It's probably a guess, but maybe not.

[jkullander]

How IN THE HELL does a group of "executives" each get close to a $1,000,000 in bonuses EACH !!!!?

[robertus911]

Pay boneses to people that drove the company to bank ruptacy. That like giving a pay raise to the FBI for shoot inocent civilains

[wyattrashbug]

for shoot inocent civilains?

You spell really good  innocent civilians

and its not "for shoot" its for shooting?

and bank ruptacy LOL its one word

you have the internet?? can you look up spell check??

[robertus911]

They should get one of those check spelling like the have on yahoo anwser

[wyattrashbug]

you are a moron

[xianglee1]

The big picture ppl is where did the BILLIONS that was given to AIG go? Most went to FOREIGN BANKS in England, Germany & France. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MILLIONS COMPARED TO THE BILLIONS that have been bilked from the TAXPAYERS. You don't hear the Senators talking about that tho instead concentrating on millions in bonuses. Corruption from all sides & we have no idea how bad it really is

[RonFella]

As soon as Obama returns the $101,000+ campaign "bonus" he got from AIG last year then he can open his mouth. Now he just looks like a hypocrite. Despicable.

[Blackjack555]

"Society's needs come before the individual's needs."

-- Adolf Hitler

Sound familiar?

[TheCuteWoofer]

Sounds like you get the GODWIN AWARD. Congratulations.

Nevertheless, I'm sure you're right. Those poor executives probably have trouble living from paycheck to paycheck, unlike the receptionist, and so truly need these bonuses to survive. My heart positively bleeds for their suffering. I cannot imagine having to scrape by on a salary in the low millions. Jeez, you might as well try to support your family as manager of a K-Mart. Yes, it must be torture for them.

(NOTE: This was sarcasm.)

[IvanSkyVinskySkyVar]

Each person could take a few dollars out of his/her $50,000 bonus check from the government to pay for the cruise. Time to give them a taste of their own medicine.

[IvanSkyVinskySkyVar]

Put all the thieving bonus execs and the lying politicians involved on a big cruise boat, send it about 50 miles out to sea and sink it.

[mete1954]

Obama wants ideas...I have one.

How about any politician, Obama included ($101,332), who took campaign contributions from AIG, put 100% of those contributions into the pot of money they demand to be refunded by the corrupt 'bonus' recipients.

[SmerkNomGool]

Damn right, friend, every penny returned to the people! It's our money in the first place. Who the Hell do the ungrateful, conniving bums in Congress think they are -- stealing from the hands that feed them -- the working folks of this country.

[OldBenFranklin]

The politicians are now saying they want the money returned from the big execs for the bonuses. If the politicians do get it back, they need to fork those funds over to the people, whom it belongs to -- in the first place. Cut a $50,000+ check for every U.S. citizen over a certain age! Outstanding idea! Think of the investment and the purchases! Think of the financial boom it would create. Even the stinking IRS would get a huge chunk in taxes, so they'd have nothing to bitch about either.

[BigRedMcCool]

Yes sir, it is a grand idea! We the people for a change! We the people should demand that the spendthrif politicians in Washington do just that! Issue each U.S. citizen over a certain age a check for $50,000+. Hell, yes! There's the answer right there! At the grass roots level, and America would be re-born in all it's glory, no doubt about it! Let the people decide what to do with the 2 trillion dollars!

[SmerkNomGool]

Giving each U.S. citizen over 16? years old a $50,000+ check is not a bad idea, actually. It's been discussed recently at a few of the think tanks in D.C. It would, in fact, stimulate the economy at the grass roots level. Let "we the people" decide which banks to save by where each person deposits his/her $50,000+. Let the people decide which auto makers to bail out by where they buy a car. Let the people decide what's best for the U.S. economy by how they use the $50,000.

It would work.

[S197V6TT]

People could buy cars, homes, RV's, make bank deposits, start small businesses.. Go to college, buy clothes... Everything..

Truly, it is the best idea.. The Banks are hording money, and keeping it out of Circulation.. By taking $1 Billion dollars from the economy, and keeping it in a vault, the economy has $1Billion less dollars in circulation.. Give that money to the people and America is re-born in all of its brilliance..

[SmerkNomGool]

There is a growing number of people that support the idea, because it really would work. Spread the word, spread the idea to everyone you know.

[S197V6TT]

You want to save this Country? Very easy..

Every tax paying American who has paid their taxes on time for the last 10 years, should receive their own Stimulus Check for $50,000 Dollars..

Stop giving the money to the Bankers.. Give it to the People.. I promise I will Stimulate this Economy by spending all $50K on American made products.. I will save America!

So Obama, you want to fight the Bankers head on? Cut me a Check for $50K and watch me save America!

[S197V6TT]

These guys are getting bonuses for millions upon millions of dollars for failure..

At my company, we get $500 bucks quarterly as a bonus.. Recently they cut this back to $300 for the economy.. Then a few weeks ago, they completely took the bonus away to save money.. LOL!!

I want Justice! Where is it? Has anybody seen Justice anywhere in America in the past 10 years? I think Justice fled after the 2000 Election and has not returned..

[Chick6517]

ahahahah ! i actually laughed so hard at that.. =P ahahahaha Sh-dang!.. xD

[wingsout64]

Fire the executives and the congress/senate that approved of the stimulus plan. They are both just as guilty. Damn them for their actions. They are going to cause huge hyper-inflation or something just as bad.

[lacountess]

This is truly a tough call for the Obama administration and the congress.  Fire the bastards and they are socialists trying to impose the government's power on the free market. Don't fire them and they'd be accused of being in the same league as the crooks. What should they really do?

[AfricanDogEater]

When the citizens of the U.S. gonna caught on to the Obama deception?

We can see it here, plain and simple.

[DrStimulus]

Yep, Smerky is right. The lurking villains in all of this are the crooks in Congress and -- the media. This damn question is loaded. It's asked a certain way to make you answer a certain way. They control the ignorant masses by such questions. Which of the interviews did this news lady delete? Those that pointed the finger at the real villain, the parasites in Congress.

Obama and the Congress have got the unsuspecting people by the throat, with the help of the media!

[BigRedMcCool]

You are right, Smerk.

[SmerkNomGool]

This is so typical of our government. They do this all the time, and the TV-drugged tax payers just continues to fall for it. Wake up! Obama and the parasites in Congress are creating a huge diversion by pointing the finger at the corporate execs, while Barack and his gang in Congress rip off the gullible tax payer for 10 times as much. The people need to point the big finger at the real culprits, ie, the two-faced lying devils in Washington, Obama and Congress!

[mete1954]

If I get ripped off for 100 bucks and the cop that catches the thief gives me a recovered dime back, pardon me for not dancing a jig.

This bipartisan 'outrage' over the bonuses is being used to polish the AIG _ _ _ _.

[eks56]

Hell yes fire the bastards. Fire them hell, lock the ass holes up for treason.

[weelittlewillie]

what kind of bull is this , do you really think it makes a different if the america poeple gives the money or the FED. I'ts all a set up so they will have all the money no matter which it changes too. only import thing is the rich has the money and we have the loans, Dam People wake up ....our homes load are doubling and the are raking it on inn.

[mykalroze]

Yes, we must revolt against the shit-stem. We must rise up, overthrow this corrupt government, the corrupt businesses and the corrupt corporate thieves who have been steadily killing this country. They're partying on our dollars. They really do deserve to be shot, what other punishment fits the crime? And I'm not a death penalty guy, but.... Maybe these rich bastards should be stripped of their holdings, their wealth, no bonuses, no retirement, and forced to live in utter poverty.

[ANGLEBOOT]

WOW so many Obamna backers that have turned against he. This is the "CHANGE" he said he wanted. And for the dinks that voted for him. it's the change you got.

[RonFella]

Rediculas witch hunt when you consider Obama gave Paul Allen $1billion dollars in porklus funds and he outsources 83% of his jobs to India.  Lets get real people. This is small potatoes compared to the money Obama is giving his supporters.

[njattack]

Who is Mr. Paul Allen?

[RonFella]

Paul Allen is the co-founder of Microsoft who outsources all their jobs to India.

[njattack]

AIG will beg, borrow & steal all of the money it can. Who wouldn't? Corrupt gov & justice.

When Black Sambo publicly announces he's sick of AIG taking taxpayer dollars to give bonuses, Black Sambo is perpetrating the BIG LIE. Stipulations could have been simply written into the gov loan stating that no bonuses will be paid from taxpayer money. IT WAS NOT!

It could be written in ANY time. IT WAS NOT!

Black Sambo is a complete LIAR trying to make Americans unemployed. His goal.

[bubba5000]

Why all the outrage over AIG bonuses?

They're just being good capitalists and "capitalizing" on the situation.

Never forget that corporations know what's best for America!

[banstaman]

Though these execs are getting paid top dollar just to drive their companies into the ground, when all that money can go to better use in these times.

[ShutterCal]

most people would take the money. That's why government regulations are important. ...you want to talk about moral values? The American CEO better get some!!!

[madfiman]

You greedy bastards should give back the money.

[S197V6TT]

You can pass as many bailouts as you would like Obama.. You create 5 million new jobs in 4 years..

However, you fail to bring Justice back to America, and you are a 1 term President..

[S197V6TT]

No Justice, No 2nd Term! No Justice, No Peace..

No Justice, Barack Obama is a 1 term President.. America demands convictions, and incarceration. Handcuffs, and wrist straps.. Hog tied, and drug across the street, on live television..

Get this message to Barack Obama.. No Justice, no 2nd term.. Its over!

[mykalroze]

I agree. Obama better go after these crooks. If not, time we vote in another president. He needs to grow balls now, go after them tooth and nail, fuck what they think. They've already ripped our spines out, not they're trying to cut off our heads and cut out our hearts.

[S197V6TT]

I have no idea who we would vote for.. However, there is one thing I know for sure.. It is factually impossible to save America, and the World Economy if Barack Obama does not pursue Justice for America. Justice is for the Poor and Middle Class. Meaning, only these two factions of society have Justice imposed upon them. The rich live in a World where Justice does not exist.. This is contrary to the Principles of this Country. Which means, No Justice, No America!

[mykalroze]

You're right. WHO would we vote for? There's no politician who would stand up to these powerful entities. Sadly, if a politician isn't killed by these crooked entities, that would mean they're not doing their job. That's how crooked these bastards are. You're also right that the president needs to a lot for the middle class and poor. These wealthy bastards are using things that are ours, not just the bailout money. We need revolution. This world has killed off some of our best revolutionaries.

[S197V6TT]

Unless handcuffs and prison cells are used, America can not be saved..

When Barack Obama grows some balls, you will see Justice.. Until then, don't expect anything but window dressing, disguised concern..

Unitl Barack Obama is removed from being a Coward President, expect more of the same..

No public speech from Obama, showing his disgust or concern for millions of dollars stolen in the name of bonuses.. He can't win a 2nd term without Justice..

[ktchong]

Fired!?!

Some AIG execs should be prosecuted and go to prison!

[imo1942]

The discusson of this topic is really stupid. We want to line-up on two sides of the point and have at it with each other. That's just more of the same.

[oilhammer04]

Should Congress keep getting *automatic* pay raises every year? They have to vote NOT to get a pay raise. How likely is that to happen?

[SmerkNomGool]

Not too likely unless the people raise holy hell about it. And, I mean fear-of-God holy f___king Hell on earth about it. And we all thought only the corporate execs were getting some "bonus" money. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! We need to hang those parasites in Congress from the highest tree! Hang 'em high!