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To: Bogeygolfer
If AIG fails then yes the taxpayers will be on the hook.

Taxpayers were on the hook no matter what, just about anyone with money in a retirement account, IRA or 401K owns a chuck of AIG anyway.

54 posted on 09/16/2008 5:27:08 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

just about anyone with money in a retirement account, IRA or 401K owns a chuck of AIG anyway.

And that is the risk they take by putting it there.


93 posted on 09/16/2008 6:15:58 PM PDT by sheana
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