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TheRealMafoo on 17 March 2009

So now congress wants to tax the AIG bonus money that Congress gave them.

Not sure why they should not give bonuses. AIG made a fortune last year. Yea, there primary business of lending didn't do very well, but there sales department in Washington made 173 billion last year from Congress.

Overall, it was a great year for AIG, thanks to our government.

Here's a thought, and I know... it's crazy... but why not stop bailing out companies that deserve to fail?

Oh, and the irony is hilarious. How in the hell does Washington have the nerve to point fingers with respect to fiscal responsibility?

So back to the point of this thread. Should it be ok for Washington to target small groups of people, and take money they have earned just because government feels they don't "deserve" it? What happened to everything the US used to stand for? Where did my country go?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/17/aig.bonuses/index.html

 

 



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Words Of Wisdom on 17 March 2009

Here's a thought, and I know... it's crazy... but why not go talk to your congressman/state representatives instead of a random internet forum?



TheRealMafoo on 17 March 2009
Words Of Wisdom said:
Here's a thought, and I know... it's crazy... but why not go talk to your congressman/state representatives instead of a random internet forum?

 

I could do both ;)



Vetteman94 on 17 March 2009

If they made all of that money then why are the taxpayers bailing them out? You dont have the whole story, America is still here. Its about time they did something about these golden parachute executives who still get huge bonuses when there company goes in the toliet, then the american taxpayer has to pay to bail them out. Every other company that is getting federal bailout money is foregoing their bonuses, why should they still get them?



Vetteman94 on 17 March 2009
TheRealMafoo said:

So now congress wants to tax the AIG bonus money that Congress gave them.

Not sure why they should not give bonuses. AIG made a fortune last year. Yea, there primary business of lending didn't do very well, but there sales department in Washington made 173 billion last year from Congress.

Overall, it was a great year for AIG, thanks to our government.

Here's a thought, and I know... it's crazy... but why not stop bailing out companies that deserve to fail?

Oh, and the irony is hilarious. How in the hell does Washington have the nerve to point fingers with respect to fiscal responsibility?

So back to the point of this thread. Should it be ok for Washington to target small groups of people, and take money they have earned just because government feels they don't "deserve" it? What happened to everything the US used to stand for? Where did my country go?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/17/aig.bonuses/index.html

 

 

I would also like a link for this,  unless you are talking about the $180 billion that congress gave them before the bailout passed.

 



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TheRealMafoo on 17 March 2009
Vetteman94 said:
TheRealMafoo said:

but there sales department in Washington made 173 billion last year from Congress.

 

 

I would also like a link for this,  unless you are talking about the $180 billion that congress gave them before the bailout passed.

 


I was being a smartass. Talking about the money Congress gave them in the bailout.

I mean you give a bunch of unethical people a crap load of money and you then get upset when they are unethical with it?

And that last statement applies to both AIG and Congress. Sadly, we didn't give it to congress, they took it from us.

 



Vetteman94 on 17 March 2009
TheRealMafoo said:
Vetteman94 said:
TheRealMafoo said:

but there sales department in Washington made 173 billion last year from Congress.

 

 

I would also like a link for this,  unless you are talking about the $180 billion that congress gave them before the bailout passed.

 


I was being a smartass. Talking about the money Congress gave them in the bailout.

I mean you give a bunch of unethical people a crap load of money and you then get upset when they are unethical with it?

And that last statement applies to both AIG and Congress. Sadly, we didn't give it to congress, they took it from us.

 

Well in that case I apologize.  

 @bold 

Thats true but, why couldnt they follow suit like the others that did get bailout money and pass on giving bonuses to everyone?  I mean, we gave alot of unethical people money, but the rest of them seemed to do the right things with it.



akuma587 on 17 March 2009

Mafoo's political philosophy is very similar to Herbert Hoover.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

TheRealMafoo on 17 March 2009
akuma587 said:
Mafoo's political philosophy is very similar to Herbert Hoover.

 

No, my political philosophy identical to our founding fathers. Akuma finds that to be a bad thing.



akuma587 on 17 March 2009

Because the Founding Fathers were concerned about monitoring and maintaining multi-national corporations and had something as dynamic as a world economy and the NYSE to deal with.

Man, they were just completely against the government getting involved in those things. Oh wait...those things DIDNT' EVEN EXIST YET!



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson