The Constant Weader at http://www.RealityChex.com

All the Republican calls for responsibility. That in itself is new. After eight years of YES regarding everything Bush wanted. And in case anyone thinks OK, but that is over now. Yes Bush is gone, his criminal enterprise is gone. But the after effects will be years before we can wipe them out. That is why it is important not only to do all we can to hold someone in the Bush crime family accountable, but while we wait, probably in vain, it needs to be said often, just who put us where we are.

And the obstructionism of the Republicans is still here. Still here with it’s propaganda machine that continues to grind out lies and re-writes history. If we forget that, then they will be back. Back for new wars, back for new criminal enterprises and back with another assault on the Constitution. If we allow them or any party to do that again, we deserve to be a dictatorship that we almost were.

Stay focused and keep your memory intact.

I want Congress to lead by example. Hari Kari away, big fella.

AIG’s employees continue to work with poise and professionalism to take care of policyholders and repay taxes

ie, “Nothing has changed at AIG.”

Admittedly, an over-the-top hyperbole.

But lets be sure to note that the AIG Bailout was the Bush Bailout to the rich, without conditions.

Make them work for free until they fix it. Put ankle bracelets on them and keep them under house and office arrest until they correct the problems they caused. If they can’t, jail them.
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You’re talking about BushCo — right?

-This is a cash grab before they lose their jobs when the company goes Bankrupt.

Was that simple enough for you?

Personally, I prefer they be incarcerated with a big,burly,mean and horny cell mate calling the shots.
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You want some scrawny, pasty-faced little Wall Street greed head locked up w/ Dick Cheney? You sadist…

Personally, I prefer they be incarcerated with a big,burly,mean and horny cell mate calling the shots.

Grassley is just another cornfed Republican namby-pamby…

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What happened in the last 6 months or so, is these giant corporations survivability became a US gorvernment task and headache, which it should not be,based on Free Market princioples.
Corportaions should measure risk and they should insure that risk.
The irony here is the biggest insurer of them all, AIG company went in billions of dollars under and asked to keep the life support plugged using government’s money,so other banks can survive too.

Something wrong is here..how could this happen?
where were these government bodies,which supposed to watch over their companies,and examine their periodical audits?

Now we hear about AIG is sending checks abroad to foreign banks,and now their executives and other corporate executives are getting bonuses in the millions of dollares payed by Uncle Sam.
Summers who is chairing the Presidents economic council team said..”probably we can’t do anything about it”,then you hear the rhetoric of Senator Grassley regarding corporate executives…”Let them commit suicide..”!!
If these companies were medium or small companies,they are already a history.

But these companies executives are not just getting bonuses, they are increasing also the value of their worthless holdings of stocks before the bailout to a worthy stocks now. So, they are gaining both ways.Thanks to Uncle Sam.
So if a coporate executive have 300,000 shares @ .50 cents a share, and now it is worth $10.00 that’s a nice gain too,which could not be accomplished without taxpayers money.

The stock bonus legality argument is a weak one, BECAUSE BONUSES WERE OFFERED UNDER NORMAL OPERATIONS CONDITIONS,BUT THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THE CORPORATIONS NOW OPERATE ARE NOT A NORMAL ONES AND UNSUAL CONDITIONS.
STOCKS ARE OFFERED NORMALLY WHEN COMPANIES DO WELL.
IN THIS CASE COMPANIES WERE AT THE BRINK OF COLLAPSING.
SINCE THE US GOVERNMENT WAS THE TOOL THAT KEPT THESE COMPANIES ALIVE, THEN THE US GOVERNMENT MUST HAVE A ‘SAY’REGARDING THESE BONUSES PAID.

We cannot have it both ways, socialism for big coporations which are sucking US taxpayers dollars in huge sums,and Capitalism for little companies who cannot survive the huge tide and were let to vanish,and with no bonuses.

While the higher AIG execs are waiting -with poise, of course!- for the bonus checks to be deposited in their bank accounts.

They will use that money to generate jobs by spending it at bars, restaurants, by hiring help to keep their many mansions clean, and hiring nannies for their children.

Thanks for your concern, tax payers.

Then why do you say it, dickhead?

Because pro-life ends at birth?

PEACE

Then why do you say it, dickhead?

As it is over ONE HUNDRED FIFTY++ BILLION has been pumped into a insurance company turned Zombie [thru a hedge fund in its bosom] whose total stock value is less than ONE BILLION.

150 billion for something worth 1 billion does not compute.