FUCK YES

[Dead Winter]

I hope they fucking get their bonuses blocked and then get hit by a fucking bus as they're leaving work for being such audacious fucks.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090316/ap_on_go_pr_wh/aig_outrage

 

[Captain Beard]

Hey, we agree on something.

 

[Dead Winter]

Actually, we agree on lots of things. You're just usually pretty mean, that's all.

 

[Captain Beard]

Mayyyyybe.

 

[Will Bozarth]

You're just usually pretty mean, that's all.

 

[Lord Foul]

An alternative viewpoint:

We've given AIG more than $165 billion dollars and want to worry about less than 1/10th of one percent of it? I agree that people should not receive bonuses for poor job performance, but that is the contract that was signed. To prevent the paying of the bonuses would involve creating new laws and changing existing ones, and the combination of time and money spent doing this will surely prove more costly than just paying the fuckers and cutting them loose from the company. This move to pander to the average joe's sense of outrage is just throwing good money after bad.

 

[Dead Winter]

Forcing them out of a job was also on the table if the bonus thing was too costly.

 

[Karmic]

you guys can borrow some extra buses from over here if you need to do a killin'

 

[Super Mahrio]

Wow...i agree with Obama...

 

[Swabs]

Wow...i agree with Obama...

Welcome to the rest of the world.

 

[Dead Winter]

OMGWTFBBQ HE'S A FUCKING COMMUNIST!!!!!!!1111!!! How can you like someone who's trying to make things better for millions of people?!?!?!?

 

[EricT]

If they had recieved 200 million dollars, I'd actually care. This is shifting attention from the REAL problem, and that's "Wait, you spent 170 billion dollars on WHAT?!".

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/aig-counterparties-bailout.php



The actual places the money went aren't that much better. Foreign Banks, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs. A real list of fucking winners there...

The real sickening part is that we've now gone 2 administrations/congresses that haven't put the stipulations needed in when dealing with this AIG bailout shit. If these cocksuckers aren't being hawked, aren't bound by severe restrictions, nothing is going to happen correctly. The problem is, and I understand, that AIG is in a real area where they can fuck everyone REALLY HARD and the government doesn't want to chance it. Bankruptcy. This would cause so much trouble within both the private systems and public systems that it's not really funny anymore. And they'd be able to do this and get away with it no problem...

AIG is one fucked up situation.

 

[Dead Winter]

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/aig-counterparties-bailout.php

 

[Lord Foul]

OMGWTFBBQ HE'S A FUCKING COMMUNIST!!!!!!!1111!!! How can you like someone who's trying to make things better for millions of people?!?!?!?

Seriously though, in this case he's trying to make millions of people feel better in a way that will actually not help any of them at all if not make things slightly worse.

 

[Dead Winter]

Dude, the rule of extremely large numbers is in effect. Do you realize how big a trillion is? If I gave you one dollar every second, it would take around 32,000 years to reach one trillion. Aren't we around 6 trillion in the hole this very moment?

At this point, the only thing we have left are our principles. Quibbling over whether we'd be slightly better or worse is utterly useless. Right now, it's about right and wrong because that's all we have left.

 

[Lord Foul]

Right and wrong are nebulous concepts at best, dollars and cents are concrete. I'd rather see the government use its resources to solve (or at least improve) concrete problems rather than legislating in a reactionary manner when a loud enough group of people expresses moral outrage. Frankly, that's a large part of how things got so messed up in our legal system to begin with.

 

[Dead Winter]

Not disagreeing with you in the slightest, just saying I think there's room for a little of both.

 

[Resonator]

You know, Bush wouldn't have given them shit all. Any republican wouldn't have, I would imagine. What else did they expect? But to be fair, it was a generous move all things considered. At least one more person is x,000,000 dollars richer. Not exactly fair but at least someone is. It just sucks it's from a taxpayers pocket rather than their own business.

I bet the Illuminati is behind this XD

 

[Liverslapper]

I bet the Illuminati is behind this XD

those fuckers

 

[DarkNoise]

DW - While I agree with you over the fact that creating new laws and such would be more costly than just paying out, I'd like to point out that if we do go through the process of making laws it may help prevent this exact thing from happening again. I know there will always be some cockbite who will find a loophole, but at the very least let's make it harder for them.

To me, it's like having a house that needs a new roof... you could either just shell out a few hundred bucks and tarp it - making it ugly, and needing to patch holes in the tarp yearly, or spend more and just redo the fucker and not worry for 20 or so years.

Just my thoughts on the topic, feel free to argue as you will (like you need permission)