[Tom D.]

It is rare to see such scorn heaped upon all things Democratic on the editorial page of the New York Times.

[TomasUSMC]

Like you, I was asked to work for an annual salary of $1, and I agreed out of a sense of duty to the company and to the public officials who have come to its aid. Having now been let down by both, I can no longer justify spending 10, 12, 14 hours a day away from my family for the benefit of those who have let me down.
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Don’t cry for me AIG.

Hell if he can afford to work for one buck a year, whats he complaining about? Certainly not the retention pay right? Either work for a dollar a year or shut up. Don’t say your working for a dollar a year and then complain you ain’t getting retention pay.

[Condor51]

The NY Slimes knows where its bread is buttered - Wall Street.

So Hell hasn't froze over, Pigs haven't sprouted wings and Monkeys aren't flying out of my butt. By them publishing this they're just covering their flank.

[Antoninus]

I really wish the Wall Street wizards who show up on capital hill had the balls to tell the Barney Franks and Chris Dodds of this world to kiss off. Instead, they go up there hat in hand to take a beating and the blame.

Why? They have been threatened. They are afraid and they are gutless.

[Girlene]

WOW. Great read. Maybe the hordes should have informed themslves of the facts before they loaded up their pitchforks and lit the torches.

[Petronski]

A version of this article appeared
in print on March 25, 2009, on
page A29 of the New York edition.

Only in the New York edition? Not in any other edition?

[mysterio]

Dear A.I.G., I Quit

Cool. See ya.

I was in no way involved in — or responsible for — the credit default swap transactions that have hamstrung A.I.G.

Neither was I. And yet I have to pay for it in the form of tax dollars, a potentially devalued currency as we print money to bail out your company, and an increasingly more powerful federal government. If I have children, they'll get to pay, too. Go on, whine about your bonus.

After 12 months of hard work dismantling the company — during which A.I.G. reassured us many times we would be rewarded in March 2009— we in the financial products unit have been betrayed by A.I.G.

Wow, you're just figuring out that fascism doesn't work? I learned that in gradeschool history class.

The founding fathers promised me a limited federal government. I guess we both got screwed, huh?

Mr. DeSantis, I assume you are a capitalist. So am I. The right decision for your company was to declare bankruptcy, not to demand fascism. I won't assume you were among those demanding a bailout. But if you feel as strongly about capitalism as you pretend to in this note, you would have resigned in protest BACK THEN.

So frankly, I don't care about your bonus. The fruit of fascism is tyranny, not bonuses.

I don't get my limited, Constitutional federal government, and you don't get your bonus. Things are tough all over.

Sincerely,
an American taxpayer

[new cruelty]

I applaud Jake’s actions. What a mess our politicians have made of this country.

[new cruelty]

I applaud Jake’s actions. What a mess our politicians have made of this country.

[discipler]

It will sound like whining to the morons who voted for Obama. I bet Barney Frank is crying tears over the letter.

[aculeus]

Great post!

Cuomo is the spawn of the evil Mario.

[BlueNgold]

WOW.
Just ... wow

[Rutles4Ever]

What a great way to get your resume posted on the New York Times, complete with damage control and a philanthropic bonus.

Here’s the problem. Anyone who thinks that any one person or entity can be blamed for this mess is short on the facts. On the one hand, it’s utterly deplorable that the government is fomenting a witch hunt. On the other hand, executives like Mr. DeSantis are required, by law, to report irregularities and/or fraud to the SEC. Whether it was his unit or not, if he were head of trading, there’s no way he didn’t know or have suspicion about AIG’s returns, product structure, and/or sales pitch. It’s no better than a manager at Madoff who sees the ridiculous, impossible guaranteed return on investment with the firm and doesn’t at least get off that ship full of rats.

I want to feel sympathy for Mr. DeSantis, but I don’t, except on the level of not wanting any harm coming to anyone. I fear the ability of the gov’t to incite the mob will result in tragedy, and for that, I sympathize with him. But, really, who is he kidding? He benefited HANDSOMELY in the framework of an epic fraud, and last I checked, I helped pay his $700k retention bonus.

[GOPJ]

Many of the employees have, in the past six months, turned down job offers from more stable employers, based on A.I.G.’s assurances that the contracts would be honored. They are now angry about having been misled by A.I.G.’s promises and are not inclined to return the money as a favor to you.

The only real motivation that anyone at A.I.G.-F.P. now has is fear. Mr. Cuomo has threatened to “name and shame,” and his counterpart in Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, has made similar threats — even though attorneys general are supposed to stand for due process, to conduct trials in courts and not the press.

By breaking the men and women of AIG ( making an example of AIG employees ) through terror, threats, and fear mongering - the kindhearted liberals like Cuomo will be able to intimidate other companies into giving up without a fight.

Yeah, I'm charmed by all that "compassion" . Compassion we're all known was phony as a three dollar bill.

Has anyone ever seen a liberal show "compassion" for anyone other than fellow dems and dem victim groups?

Republicans are compassionate too. We care about the NRA...