Here what I think happened

We've been electing these theives for years and now it's finally comming out just how crooked our elected officials are especially congress the old bunch of should be retired farts. everybody is out for the almighty buck and screw the people. obama cant find 1 person that dosen't have something in their closets, the democrats are a joke, really , everyone thought things were going to change but things got worse fast, and you can thaNK that on PELOSI AND REID. OBAMA DOSEN'T EVEN KNOW WHATS GOING ON HALF THE TIME, BOY DID WE GET SCREWED, ROYALLY.......

Not only did AIG pay bonuses to their executives, they gave massive contributions to the politicians--which is why nothing was done beforehand. At the top of the list of politicians who received money from AIG are Chriss Dodd and Barack Obamam--what a startling coincidence---NOT!!!!!!

I disagree. The reason I disagree is that they could have just as easily done the same with Auto executives but they didn't. Did you notice that? They made the auto execs sell their private planes and take $1.00/year salaries. They aren't getting these bonuses with the bailout money. See congress could have done the exact same thing to the CEOs of companies like AIG. It's not about a breach of contract. Contracts can be renegotiated the same way they were with the auto companies. Contracts are renegotiated all the time in struggling businesses. It happens at the highest and lowest levels. This was all a farce used to reward AIG for their campaign contributions to democrats. Obama and Dodd got over $100,000 EACH from AIG last year. Funny how that's been so under-reported. This taxing crap is just a lame attempt to appease an angry public, many of whom are dumb enough to believe that Obama, Dodd, and Geithner didn't even know about these bonuses or the fact that Dodd himself guaranteed the bonuses.

Im going to respond using a response I gave in another thread, " It goes more like this: The real worry is the fact that what congress just did was so blatently ilegal and they did it using the anger that they managed to generate by pointing fingers at a "monster" they created to shift blame to, and then having the peasants charge the monster's castle with torches and pitch forks, getting their agenda passed and covering their tracks in the process. Then to show the peasants they are the "peoples governemnt" they punish that evil monster publicly and the public is so greatfull, they don't care that a very dangerous and precident setting thing has taken place with that punishment, that has opened the peasants up to the same punishment someday should they become the next "monster" So you see, what just happened was a vaery rapidly executed combination illusion that covered their assses and created a dangerously unconstitutional precident.

Well, that would require thinking, lol. I doubt those people can think that well. No, this is something that was deliberately cut from the stimulus bill (yes, due to lobbyists reminding everybody who donated to their campaign war chests). Then everybody was hoping that it wouldn't come out but it did. Now somebody takes the fall, Obama (well in the know but now oh so outraged) will be the shining hero. The latter is pure luck. Contracts are re-negotiable. But, yes, maybe some politician was actually smart enough to cook up this scheme. After all, the government can freely tax away, but with sufficient reductions they still keep at least most of the bonus money. Don't kidd yourself into believing that 90% really equals 90%. They all have investment losses, some maybe even business losses. They might very well keep the whole bonus. At the end those people are still better off at the taxpayer's expense. This is all smoke and mirrors yet again.

life is just so, in my opinion, i will do nothing. perhaps our sense of worth is different. In china, the thing like that is so much.