Most of the bonuses were entirely legal and proper. These are people, some hired specifically to fix the problem after the meltdown, with expertise. They were being paid at a market level. As in the case of the SVP resigning in the NYT, some accepted $1 salaries and a “retention” bonus conditioned on completion of specified tasks. The head of AIGFP was hired in November!
Your comments about taxing them at 120% and throwing them in irons relies on ignorance of the actual circumstances. It is as much a manifestation of mob hysteria as the Congressional hearings and legislation.
And this is not a sideshow. This is part of the main event. It is the obvious vanguard action of the class war which will shortly destroy this country.
Mr. Stalin, go ahead and kill all those Kulaks but we reserve the right to disagree with your economic philosophy.
GIVE ME A BREAK!
DemRats equivalent of the Reichstag fire.
> GIVE ME A BREAK!
In the words of the notorious Diamond David Lee Roth, “One Break Coming Up!”
“Most of the bonuses were entirely legal and proper. These are people, some hired specifically to fix the problem after the meltdown, with expertise. They were being paid at a market level. As in the case of the SVP resigning in the NYT, some accepted $1 salaries and a “retention” bonus conditioned on completion of specified tasks. The head of AIGFP was hired in November!”
I care not — this is a sideshow guaranteed to distract — as you have proven.
> Your comments about taxing them at 120% and throwing them in irons relies on ignorance of the actual circumstances. It is as much a manifestation of mob hysteria as the Congressional hearings and legislation.
No, it demonstrates my not caring one whit for this side-show. It is a manifestation of “I do not give a bloody blast.”
> And this is not a sideshow. This is part of the main event. It is the obvious vanguard action of the class war which will shortly destroy this country.
Class war is not going to destroy America — not shortly, not ever. You will find Liberals of all classes, and you will find Conservatives of all classes. Never the twain will meet.
AMEN! Couldn’t have said it better. “Greedy” my arse. I’m sick to death of these people perfectly willing to run roughshod over people who have done nothing wrong and were trying to work to unravel some of this mess. I read somewhere that they had been successful in getting back something like $10 billion already. Now they’re leaving because a bunch of complete jackasses in congress and elsewhere are threatening their very lives. Can’t wait for the “revenge” to nail their butts to the wall. Then let’s hear about how it’s so “minor”.