AIG was a conduit for all kinds of slush.
A secret conduit to foreign banks whose own governments would not help. Secret money to Goldman Sachs, etc. Who knows whose pockets were lined with that money?
So rather than taking bonuses away from AIG people, we should be using that outrage to end AIG altogether and to get out of office every single person involved in the scandal that is AIG.
In other words, stop ranting about taking bonuses back. Instead use the bonuses as the battle cry to win the battle.
Bonuses are not the battle. They are only a skirmish within the battle.
Same for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Use the outrage over those bonuses to end both organizations.
Use the outrage to hang Barney Frank, Chris Dodds, Shumer, Paulson and the whole criminal conspiracy.
Amen !
ML/NJ