Oct 08, 2008 02:45PM GMTOctober 08, 2008 14:45:28
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What did you think of the 400,000 junket AIG took last week,after we gave millions of our $$$$ to save them!!?

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raves +8   by Hard Candy ~COB

Answered It's a felony

The taxpayers bail out AIG, and a week later they go out and blow $400,000? Sheesh, Grand Larceny is way less than that!

I've totally had it with this double standard. The rest of us - the taxpayers who bailed them out - have to be responsible and budget our money while worrying about the skyrocketing costs of living yet our hard-earned tax dollars get frittered away like this.

The execs should return the money and be thrown in jail. That's what would happen to any of us, the same rules should apply to them.
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  • raves     [-] by joeboy4545

    Answered I am in shock

    i agree that the meating might have been planned in advance
    but thats a huge amount
    wonder how many stocks could thay have bought
  • raves +1   [-] by jrp

    Answered It's a felony

    We need to file legislation which gives CEO, Politicians, and other Government officials receive manditory jail time.
  • raves +1   [-] by jumpy

    Answered It's a felony

    These people should be A) Fired, B) Pay back money spent C) Never hold a position of financial responsibilty at a company, especially with tax payers money involved, and D) Brought up on charges of irrresponsibility/squandering taxpayers money.
  • raves     [-] Sister Jean replied to jumpy
    agree
  • raves     [-] by SAM

    Answered None of the above

    obama is a pretty face behind a bigger show. this is the New World orders pretty face and we can stop him. the bankers that have taken over this country need a pretty face . then you have the full democratic congress and house in general to pass what ever they want in spite of the president. so we got Fannie and Freddie that have sent a little money to the chairman of the banking committee and the democratic candidate for president. but that little money went a long way. now they control the democratic candidate.

    Additionally, we have people who came from wall street came from the leading AMERICAN (kind of) Banks giving money to the worlds largest insurance company in the world.

    As it turned out we tax payers we taken advantage of again. kind of like giving 600 million dollars to an organization that is truly trying to take AMERICA from AMERICANS
  • raves +1   [-] by moe.french

    Answered It's a felony

    They're crooks plain and simple. The tax payers got screwed. Once again. Thank you powers that be. Hopefully karma will be taking a swift trip to visit y'all real soon.
  • raves +1   [-] by dragure

    Answered It's a felony

    These guys need to do hardcore time at a maximum security state pen. Someone needs to tell me why they feel so entitled?
  • raves     [-] Sister Jean replied to dragure
    agree
  • raves +1   [-] by Gazza

    Answered It's a felony

    I have left the western world and living a wonderful life in Asia; I will never again return to pay taxes to bail out corrupt executives, stupid mortgagees, crony government, no public transport, no healthcare, and pensions for 60% of the population that I will not get in return. When I get sick I go to a doctor. I pay for it myself - and guess what? Without insurance companies floating around, doctors have to charge less for their services.

    My advice, 'cause people seem so angry about it, is to leave the country and don't pay taxes to clean up other peoples' mess.
  • raves     [-] by trow007

    Answered It's a felony

    obama is a pretty face behind a bigger show. this is the New World orders pretty face and we can to stop him. the bankers that have taken over this country need a pretty face to force through all of the control grids that they are about to induce on the people. then you have the full democratic congress and house in general to pass what ever they want with a democratic president. it is bad enough that Paulson and his cronies have full control of our government and we are now propty of the federal reserve witch is apart of the world banking cartel witch is controlled by 20 of the wealthiest people in the world.

    this is much bigger if you dig this ties into the CFR and Rockefeller and the bilderberges

    the more you dig the more you free yourself to the truth of what is really going on in our free country!!!
    infowars.com
  • raves   -1 [-] by shootncast

    Answered I am in shock

    I believe that all funds should be returned and the 400,000 spent on massages should be converted into a high intrest loan to them at 28%..They can throw that into thier bankruptcy to. (Better?)
  • raves     [-] Sister Jean replied to shootncast
    no need for that type of talk please...delete please
  • raves +1   [-] by Geezertalk

    Answered It's a felony

  • raves +1   [-] by questionable

    Answered It's a felony

    they should be taken straight to prison for no less than 5 years. what fool was leading this disrespectful tour of ignorance???
  • raves +1   [-] by kj

    Answered It's a felony

    reflects Bush and criminals
  • raves +1   [-] by Oh, Humanity!

    Answered I am in shock

    What is WRONG with people?
  • raves     [-] Sister Jean replied to Oh, Humanity!
    SELFISH
  • raves +1   [-] by Frank J

    Answered It's a felony

    Congress should take the rest of the money back and then tell them to use that 400,000 thousand dollars ,for the purpose the money was given to them,then after proving they did that,then give them more money,after they prove they use it properly.Keep doling the money out as they need it.They can not be trusted to spend the money properly.Using money for unauthorized use should be a felony crime,the same as stealing it.They should have a federal book keeper to account for all the money.They should be told they are not getting any more money,Thats it,not a dime more.If its not enough,shame on you.NO MORE MONEY<NONE.
  • raves     [-] Sister Jean replied to Frank J
    it was on news this a.m. they may lend them more
  • raves +1   [-] by Deets

    Answered None of the above

    Oversight! Oversight! Oversight! Congressional Hearings!!! Let your government representatives know exactly what you think of $400,000.00 of "OUR" tax dollars at work.
    It's obscene!!!
  • raves +2   [-] by psandqs

    Answered None of the above

    It needs to be addressed by our Government - what are they going to do to protect us from such misuse of funds and AIG - what were they thinking?
  • raves +1   [-] Sister Jean replied to psandqs
    it was just on MSNBC they have another planned in the next few weeks
  • raves +1   [-] waldvogel1 replied to Sister Jean
    They canceled that one!
  • raves +1   [-] Sister Jean replied to waldvogel1
    I bet they would afraid someone was gonna shoot them.I wonder how many of these they did before they went in the red!!!!! bet afraid gonna shoot red
  • raves +1   [-] waldvogel1 replied to Sister Jean
    Very good question? Dow still plummeting and McCAIN and Palin only have Obama's past associations to talk about!
  • raves +1   [-] Sister Jean replied to waldvogel1
    so true ... they are grasping for true grasping
  • raves +2   [-] by parigino

    Answered It's a felony

    that's Adding Insult to Injury.
  • raves +2   [-] by solarGil

    Answered It's a felony

    This is disgusting! They should be fired, jailed and fined. The nerve of them!
  • raves +1   [-] by Seonag

    Answered I am in shock

    I don't know if it's a felony, but I do think that as 80% stock holders "we" by way of the Feds need to deny payment of the 'charges' and tell these guys fork up the money out of the millions they've taken in salaries and bonuses!
  • raves +1   [-] by SITHMAN

    Answered It's a felony

    And people say I waste money...
  • raves +3   [-] by Daelon

    Answered None of the above

    ...now that they have our money, they could care less, but this is an old story and we should of known better. I am sure more of our money will go to things like this as Bush as his last remaining act in office is to help out all his friends.
  • raves +1   [-] by BAMAGIRL

    Answered It's a felony

    The US crossing over into the private sector is unchartered waters and I'm not sure if there are any laws to convict them of felonies, but it should be modified as we push forward in a desperate attempt to save our economy; and talk about checks and balances... wow... something in Congress is seriously broken.
  • raves +3   [-] by Deb

    Answered Undecided

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