[AndyJackson]

Yes, a wealthy family based on a chain of overpriced hotels, leveraged to the hilt as real-estate speculation wants the taxpayers to fund expensive corporate travel and perks. And, how did curbing pay at AIG prevent them from returning bailout cash to the taxpayer? Why is that his concern. How do you connect the dots between the AIG bailout and Tisch's well-being?

Is there no one running a major company in the US that has a clue about economic realities. I guess not, actually. The best way to make money for the last 30 years was to take foolish risks.

[Sergio]

President Barack Obama last year said. “You are not going to be able to give out these big bonuses until you’ve paid taxpayers back,” Obama said at a town hall meeting in February 2009. “You can’t get corporate jets. You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers’ dime.”

And yet our elected representatives do it all the time.

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In 2008, bailed-out AIG canceled about 160 events costing a total of $80 million.

Start here.