openleft.com - 4/1/2009
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Here is the lalalalalalalalalalala response to the AIG bonus story from the administration:
"People are not sitting around their kitchen tables thinking about AIG," Axelrod said. "They are thinking about their own jobs."
Wow. That is a lot of cognitive dissonance, given that President ...
online.wsj.com - 4/1/2009
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online.wsj.com —
Capitol Hill aides received 2008 bonuses that were
among the highest in years, a payroll tracker said,...
even as lawmakers criticized companies.
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Large Bonuses a Boon – In Congress
rhymeswithright.mu.nu - 3/26/2009
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rhymeswithright.mu.nu —
I've not commented on whether or not those
bonuses to AIG executives should have been paid or...
not. I've heard lots of discussion both ways on the issue. But today's New York Times carries the resignation letter of one of...
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Why The AIG Bonuses Were Right
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Time to Deliver: The Coming Transformation
The Republic of T. —
... to a local newspaper Wednesday claimed responsibility for the damage and said: “We are angry that rich people, like him, are paying themselves a huge amount of money and living in luxury while ordinary people are made unemployed, destitute and homeless.”
(Of course, this isn’t intended to condone such actions or advocate for similar action here or anywhere else.)
Americans are plenty angry, and justifiably so.
Americans aren’t mad at ...
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obsidianwings.blogs.com 3/16/2009 — by hilzoy From the WSJ : "American International Group Inc. will pay $450 million in bonuses to employees in its financial products unit. That division was at the heart of AIG's collapse last fall, which compelled the U.S. government to provide ...
Some Will Pay Back AIG Bonuses
online.wsj.com 3/19/2009 — Some AIG employees have returned bonuses or intend to do so amid public outrage. Among them was Douglas Poling, who received the richest payment of more than $6.4 million.
Those AIG bonuses
blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com 3/17/2009 — Early on the White House seemed to be saying executives at Astounding Institutional Greed were owed their bonuses totaling $165 million because of contractual obligations. Now in the face of howling public outrage, President Obama says he is ...
Obama: Block AIG bonuses
politico.com 3/16/2009 — Obama says he'll “pursue every legal avenue to block these bonuses and make the American taxpayers whole.”
Wall Street Bonuses — Are You Angry Yet?
themoderatevoice.com 5 hours ago — Are you angry at the size of Wall Street bonuses at a time when so many other sectors of the economy are sagging, and so many people are suffering such economic distress? Well, maybe you’re not angry enough.
Perusing the financial pages and government statistics, here’s a few ...
More Thoughts on the AIG Bonuses
corner.nationalreview.com 3/19/2009 — I usually agree with the guys at Clusterstock, but I think they're wrong about the AIG bonuses -- though at least they've actually thought about the problem for longer than it takes to churn out a press release containing the word "outrageous"
The ...
A.I.G. bonuses
marginalrevolution.com 3/17/2009 — Outrage, outrage, blah, blah, blah, etc. Often I feel that some topics are too obvious to blog. The real lesson is that this is another reason not to nationalize banks. It means politicizing every decision which ends up in the...
They Came for the AIG Bonuses, but I was not an AIG Employee…
proteinwisdom.com 3/21/2009 — Forget for a moment that the legislation to tax back the bonuses from AIG is a Bill of Attainder.
Forget that Bills of Attainder are prohibited by the Constitution. That part is of course easy to forget..Congress gave up on it long ago.
Forget that ...
The AIG Bonuses
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 3/16/2009 —
You would think that executives at a company that’s so poorly managed that it requires vast government aid wouldn’t be getting big bonuses but apparently not :
An official in the Obama administration said Saturday that Treasury ...
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