The Bailout

[leerock89]

So, for those of you who live in the US and for those of you who have jobs and pay your taxes, heres some good news! You all heard of that bailout of AIG from the government, where the good government gave AIG over 80 billion dollars to help the company out. Would you like to know what the owners of AIG did with some of that money? They took a week long vacation in Cali. If I remember some of the numbers they spent over 250000 on massage therapy, about 300000 on food, 200000 on their rooms and oh so much more. Then they went in and rehired the ex ceo, who btw when fired from his previous posistion was given over 10 million, and are paying him 1 mill a month to do another horrible job. Anyone getting mad about this whole situation?

[Corwin]

I'm just curious how it's ok to do that, but CA is in a financial crisis right now, and the state government can't even get a loan.

[Russkie]

*Insert generic Capitalist insult here*

[Alucard666]

wow i hate this country....the government could of done something a lot better with that money....like put it into welfare...or back into the social security funds...or maybe thats where they pulled the money from

[Corwin]

do you really think there was that much left in social security to pull out? that's why I think Bush was so gung ho about shutting down that system, b/c they didn't want anyone to find out how little money was really left in it

[Zaraki]

the bail didn't do crap. it's being a roller coaster but around my time when i watch the news it's down to -800 again.

[Dolly]

The bailout hasn't even really been "put in" yet. They don't just throw everything out immediately. A small bit is given (I forget the number), and if a change is seen, the rest, the majority of the bailout is taken in implemented.

[quietchat]

What Dolly said. I haven't heard a single thing about that money actually being used yet, just that it had been approved to do 'Something' with it.

[am0184]

Holy crap, whe I heard that I almost imploded. It pisses me off and I want to greet them with a special handshake to their FACE!...oh well...at least gas prices are down...

[strike7785]

Our damn government is so F*#ked up, they already get paid too damn much and now they give themselves a raise. Ughhhhhhh!!!!!!! I have to say this is all GEORGE W. BUSHES FAULT!!! HE should have stepped in to help this country out when we needed him the most but nooooooo!!! he is too worried about other countries and his own wallet!!!

[Russkie]

Our damn government is so F*#ked up, they already get paid too damn much and now they give themselves a raise. Ughhhhhhh!!!!!!! I have to say this is all GEORGE W. BUSHES FAULT!!! HE should have stepped in to help this country out when we needed him the most but nooooooo!!! he is too worried about other countries and his own wallet!!!

Yeah! Its always the fault of some guy you dont like because he wasnt in your favored political party! It always is, and always will be his fault and no one elses, just because stuff! There is no way in HELL some of these problems could have come from anyone else, other than HIM!

Yeah!!!

(If you havent caught the sarcasm by now, you dont know me very well)

[Zaraki]

still the blame should be going back to the clinton admin. for fannie-mae. yeah bush should get blamed for not trying fix this in the past, and congress should be blamed also.

[aezgaga]

Work under The Table FTW (It's a french expression traduce in english so I don't know if it keep his meaning :P)

[leerock89]

I plan on saving as much money as fast as I can then leave this forsaken country for some backwater place like Madagascar or Mongolia or Antarctica.

[Russkie]

I plan on saving as much money as fast as I can then leave this forsaken country for some backwater place like Madagascar or Mongolia or Antarctica.

Dont forget Russia.