Read: I am quitting because I am not getting my taxpayer funded bonus...
Tired of the socialist whining from people who believe that our tax dollars should go to execs of failed companies.
Even more tired of the socialists who try to liberalize/rationalize why tax dollars are funding bonuses for failed execs
You didn’t read the letter, obviously.
Class warfare is so becoming these days!
Exec pay is a company matter. The problem here is "tax dollars are funding.."
Shut up and read the letter. This isn’t about corporate welfare.
[...”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.”...]
Good for this guy, for having the nerve to stand up to the BS. The media and the idiots in Congress have used these men in such a way that we should all be worried.
If the country is willing to allow these tax payers to be railroaded, who is next?
When it comes to personal freedom, no one gets pissed off until they are targeted.
If this guy didn’t work for AIG, the company would have lost even more money. As far as you know, he probably saved you $10 billion in additional bailout money.
He brought value to AIG, and he was not responsible for its losses.
Capatilists will compensate you for the value that you bring them. Socialists will compensate you for your time.
This man expects to be compensated for his value, as he was contracted to do.
The guy who wrote the letter worked to help the company. Get a grip, friend.
Let’s say, hypothetically, that you work construction and do a job on a military installation....then don’t get paid for what you do. That’s taxpayer money too.
Maybe you’re just under the impression that people in this country should work for nothing more than pride and “patriotism”? Well, buddy, that’s the direction we’re heading!
This is AMERICA, Damn It!!! We built this country on the principle that people should be rewarded for the work that they do! We encouraged good labor practices by honoring contracts! Now, peolpe like you are willing to piss it all away for 15 min of “feel good” spite. America has NEVER succeeded by being spiteful...we adapt and we overcome and we shun wasteful hatred because it doesn’t gain us anything.
Maybe, when you read the comments from me and the others, you’ll take the time to reassess your priorites.
If that is your take you obviously didn't bother to read the letter. He is quitting because the company and the government has broken their contract with him, because he was in no way responsible for the decisions or actions that damaged the company, and that he won't work for essentially no compensation out of a sense of duty to the company, the AIG president or the current administration. He sounds just like a founding father to me.
Umm you do know these bonuses where agreed to between the COMPANY and the MAN - not GOVERNMENT? Right? Do you know and understand the difference, or are you just swilling the class warfare Kool-Aid with the rest of the commies?
Tired of the socialist whining from people who believe that our tax dollars should go to execs of failed companies.
Even more tired of the socialists who try to liberalize/rationalize why tax dollars are funding bonuses for failed execs
I am tired of sheeple who sucker for Alinsky radicalism.Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."What do you think the harassing of those executives is, if not the actualization of that rule?The administration put language in the "must pass yesterday" bill explicitly stipulating that those bonuses would be paid - and you actually think that was an accident?
It is a setup. And you have fallen for it hook, line, and sinker.
Don't get me wrong, I'm never likely to get that kind of a payday in my lifetime - but in the scope of the bailout it is chump change - and looking at that detail is taking your eye off the ball. The "ball" starts with a dollar sign dollar sign, and ends with a number bigger than my wildest dreams of greed by a thousandfold.
The AIG execs have an entitlement mentality on steroids.
“Read: I am quitting because I am not getting my taxpayer funded bonus...”
He should work 14 hour days for no pay?
“Tired of the socialist whining from people who believe that our tax dollars should go to execs of failed companies.”
Well, I’m tired of communists whining and shaking their collective fists at PRIVATE companies honoring CONTRACTS.
You, and your ilk, have no business WHATSOEVER getting involved in this. These contracts were drawn before the bailout, i.e., none of your GD business, comrade!
How about pissing and moaning about how your commie buddies thrust this SOCIALIST “bail out” on the American people DID NOT WANT IT in the first place! That’s worth at least a protest, or two, no? Isn’t this a bigger issue than the $165 million? But go after people making a living, that’s the ticket, Mr. Stalin, get those greedy kepitelists.
Tired of 1st Class Suckers like you who buy into this farce, as well. Your dear Kenyan and his goat herd knew about these bonuses.
Those companies should have been allowed to fall.
You have revealed your true colors.
Another fine example of the “Conservative” who argues the same principles as the hard-left.
You disgust me. And everyone else who can’t think past their ENVY.
Go join up with your pinko pals on the left. They hate the private sector just like you.
Failed company is right. Only now YOUR BUDDIES created a zombie, the walking dead of companies, unnatural and immoral. Boy, you sure missed your opportunity to gripe about socialism, did you not?
I FRICKIN’ HATE LEFTISTS!
You my friend confirm my belief that this country and the people who now are in control of it are .. Complete Jack-Asses!
GO TO KOZ.
On your way there .. “BITE ME”!