Comments on: House AIG Payback: House Considering Tax To Get Back 90% Of Bonuses http://themoderatevoice.com/27231/house-aig-payback/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 30 May 2012 14:01:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: river http://themoderatevoice.com/27231/house-aig-payback/comment-page-1/#comment-176968 river Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:51:24 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/27231/house-aig-payback/#comment-176968 Is it possible that this story could be metaphoric for AIG?. . .<br><br><a href="http://www.livescience.com/mysteries/070228_snake_bytes.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.livescience.com/mysteries/070228_sna...</a> Is it possible that this story could be metaphoric for AIG?. . .

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]]> By: Leonidas http://themoderatevoice.com/27231/house-aig-payback/comment-page-1/#comment-176962 Leonidas Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:31:55 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/27231/house-aig-payback/#comment-176962 All this circus about $165 million in bonuses??? Didn't we just see a bill with $7.7 billion in earmarks get signed by the President into law? And now there is outrage over $165 million in bonuses to honor contracts made before the crisis ever happened? Bonuses that were protected by an ammendment inserted by Chris Dodd at the pressuring from Larry Summers and Tim Geitner, appointed member of the Obama Whitehouse team? Bonuses like those that are to be paid out by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae? Bonuses with AIG bailout money that pale in comparison to the $57 Billion of bailout money that went to paying foreign banks (about 58% of these funds) ?<br><br>Looks to me like folks are focusing too much on this politically manipulated outrage machine. The only outrage here should be what business do these people have in criticizing the very bonuses they authorized and protected, and why they are so caught up on the amount of $165 million when they have been such poor stewards of the taypayer dollars with mismanagement in the billions by ther own acts. All this circus about $165 million in bonuses??? Didn't we just see a bill with $7.7 billion in earmarks get signed by the President into law? And now there is outrage over $165 million in bonuses to honor contracts made before the crisis ever happened? Bonuses that were protected by an ammendment inserted by Chris Dodd at the pressuring from Larry Summers and Tim Geitner, appointed member of the Obama Whitehouse team? Bonuses like those that are to be paid out by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae? Bonuses with AIG bailout money that pale in comparison to the $57 Billion of bailout money that went to paying foreign banks (about 58% of these funds) ?

Looks to me like folks are focusing too much on this politically manipulated outrage machine. The only outrage here should be what business do these people have in criticizing the very bonuses they authorized and protected, and why they are so caught up on the amount of $165 million when they have been such poor stewards of the taypayer dollars with mismanagement in the billions by ther own acts.

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