Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Big Ado about Poo Poo

Allow me to summarize.

AIG made some risky decisions.

They gambled and lost.

Government gave them a few hundred billion dollars (which gov doesn't actually have, so must borrow from your grandchildren)

AIG (the ones who wrote the contracts that define the conditions under which bonuses are issued even when their job performance is poo poo) used some of it to give the guys who made these poor decisions huge bonuses.

Government is now "Upset, Outraged, and otherwise Incontinent"

What exactly did Government expect?

UPDATE: here is another view http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2009/03/some-reality-for-the-reality-based.html

And another: Gov knew about the bonuses all along http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/20/video-congress-geithner-knew-about-bonuses-on-march-3rd/

It just keeps going!!!
Geithner asked Dodd to change his bill to allow bonuses. Matches? what matches??
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/19/video-demint-calls-on-geithner-to-resign/

2 Comments:

Blogger rabidrunner said...

You talk about the Utopia (aka the perfect solution) and the mental illness will allow you to see it that way.

9:13 AM  
Blogger tom lindsey said...

Personally, I have no time for outrage. However lest you think that I am unpatriotic I should tell you that right now there are highly skilled mourners in Ghana hard at work expressing my feelings of anger and shock.

These folks usually do funerals but for a few bucks more they agreed to my unusual request.

10:10 AM  

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