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Offline jinxmchue

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Re: Senator suggests AIG execs should kill themselves
« Reply #25 on: March 18, 2009, 08:38:53 AM »
Quote from: TxRadioguy on March 17, 2009, 07:52:41 AM
Ummm...exactly how is advocating suicide "making some sense"?

I thought it was outrageous, too, until I heard his actual statement.  The left-stream media is once again spinning things to make a Republican look bad.  When you actually hear what he said, his statement is immediately recognizable as obviously a tongue-in-cheek joke.
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Re: Senator suggests AIG execs should kill themselves
« Reply #26 on: March 18, 2009, 07:25:56 PM »
Quote from: debk on March 17, 2009, 04:44:34 PM
The only way that AIG could have possibly avoided paying the bonuses would have been to take bankruptcy. Then they could possibly have rewritten the contracts with senior executives....or not had any contracts at all with them.

As it is....AIG is contractually required to pay those bonuses....or risk lawsuits that AIG is sure to lose.

We, the taxpayers...are now obligated to pay them by default of "owning" the majority stock of the company.

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Has anyone wondered if the Democrats... in the last two years of being "in power"....have managed to create this mess we are in...so that "their" president could come in and rescue the country....thus keeping the democrats in control for a looooooooong time?

Or is that too much "tin foil" thinking?

The government owns 80% not 40% of AIG. Even though the Judge might be correct on a contractual basis, I doubt that the employees would have taken AIG to court if they had been stiffed. After all, the government owns this dog. Plus, it would have cost them many millions with appeals by government lawyers backing AIG up in those lawsuits. So saying they had to honor those bonus's is just hogwash in my opinion. The dishonest politicans and the dishonest bankers were all on the same page until this blew up in their faces. That's how Hank Greenburg former CEO of AIG sees it cause he's suing the company misinformation malpractice to the tune of 100's of millions. If he wins the lawsuit and there are no means to pay him, what happens then. Same old, same old as a lawsuit by the employees.

The only reason this is a story is because of the public outcry. 
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Re: Senator suggests AIG execs should kill themselves
« Reply #27 on: March 18, 2009, 08:10:43 PM »
This AIG debacle is merely a misdirection from the truth of what's happened in the Porkulus Bill. It's rarely mentioned or even a little known fact of how many BILLIONS we have given foreign countries from this $800 Billion canard. To put it bluntly, other countries are getting a good majority of this money.  But, for the moment, the American Public is focused on AIG and not the major truth of the matter.
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Re: Senator suggests AIG execs should kill themselves
« Reply #28 on: March 18, 2009, 08:41:09 PM »
Quote from: Thor on March 18, 2009, 08:10:43 PM
This AIG debacle is merely a misdirection from the truth of what's happened in the Porkulus Bill. It's rarely mentioned or even a little known fact of how many BILLIONS we have given foreign countries from this $800 Billion canard. To put it bluntly, other countries are getting a good majority of this money.  But, for the moment, the American Public is focused on AIG and not the major truth of the matter.

Bingo!
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Re: Senator suggests AIG execs should kill themselves
« Reply #29 on: March 19, 2009, 10:19:14 AM »
Quote from: Thor on March 18, 2009, 08:10:43 PM
This AIG debacle is merely a misdirection from the truth of what's happened in the Porkulus Bill. It's rarely mentioned or even a little known fact of how many BILLIONS we have given foreign countries from this $800 Billion canard. To put it bluntly, other countries are getting a good majority of this money.  But, for the moment, the American Public is focused on AIG and not the major truth of the matter.

Thus proving that the American public's attention span has been ruined by television.
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