I've been watching this AIG thing for a while and it just makes me sick. I was reading an article a former employee of AIG wrote and this is excatly what makes me sick.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/opinion/25desantis.html?scp=1&sq=Desantis&st=cse
LYING.
The politics of this just makes me sick. First the government buys out AIG and decides that politicians (former school teachers, athletes, grown up rich kids, crazy liberals) should make the decisions for one of the largest and most complex companies in America..... scary. Then they tell the company, you cannot give your employees more than $1 million in bonuses. So the government blankets all these employees and says since we own the company no one hear deserves more than a mill in bonuses. Well some of these employees have already been promised a million dollars and have been working for nothing based on the premises that when the year is over they get that money. Not any more. Well, even though the government figured their worth was only this much, the corporations and economy didn't. Other companies would have swooped in and picked up a lot of these guys. So the government changed their minds and changed the bill and legislation, they negotiated and promised these guys their bonuses so they would stay. Then a couple of months later the politicians are all screaming THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!!!!! WHO WOULD BELIEVE!!!! You should, you moron. You approved it. You promised them this compensation and like most of your promises it was a bold faced lie. And how dare you go on TV with bold statements and lie to the world that you knew nothing about it. You specifically went back and wrote those bonuses back in. Just because you are in a position of leadership does not give you the right to lie and cheat and steal. I see you on TV blasting CEO's use of airplanes. Pelosi, were you taking a private military jet around the country the other day....... ooohhh all the time, thats right. It make me sick. Don't worry though America. If we go communist all of our best talent will go over seas seeking more compensation and we will just export all the earnings potential.
Oh what glorius days are ahead.
