No fucking way! How can we prevent this from happening? Don't we - as ordinary schmucks - have any option other than just sitting here and watching them steal from out piggy banks?

The only way to subvert this type of misbehavior is to be loud about it. Push the media to cover it instead of burying it and bring it into the light.

This is the departing GOP raiding the treasury, pillaging, and burning the fields.

Wow, there has to be something that can be done to stop that, I mean they've had what 3 lavish resort "meetings" on our dime and now this????

Terrible!

This is beyond belief! It should have been written into the bailout provisions that this NOT be allowed to happen. Its total bullshit that they have to pay this so called "deferred compensation" to keep valuable workers from leaving. Where the hell are these "valuable workers" gonna go??? There arent any jobs out there. Talk about corruption...

"Talent?" Is that what they're calling financial terrorists these days? It's beginning to smell more and more like a payoff to keep everyone ensconced in the giant turdball that is AIG. Flush the lot of 'em down the toilet.

It's worse. These employees all agreed to "deferred compensation" in which some of their salary is paid to them later. It sounds as if they are now trying to blackmail AIG into paying it now, instead of later, in order for them to stay. Blatant outrageous nonsense. Shut down AIG. Can them all.

If they had any talent they would be in the trouble that they are in. Who do we complain to?

Anybody have Obama's email address???

...Anybody have Obama's email address???

We could try this: http://change.gov/page/s/yourvision

Oh gee. What a surprise. These unrepentant bastards are trying to steal yet more money from people who already have less. Well done. As CJ Cregg might say... set the room on fire. Do it now.

do you think god would still punish us if we tortured those who deserve it or would he throw out an "OH SNAP....NO THEY DIT'IN JUST SHOW EVIL THA DOOR...THOSE MY PEEPS FA REAL FA REAL"?

just curious.

Yes, shut down AIG. Their employees can just walk and try to find jobs like millions of other Americans. And good luck with all the other insurance companies tanking. I don't pretend to be a financial wizard, but imagine the stimulus of those billions had just been parceled out in equal share to every citizen - or just every municipality, in some proportion based on population. Here in San Diego, we're losing libraries and Little League fields, the potholes are growing and the pipes are breaking under the streets (two just last night). Meanwhile, the AIG fatcats party on....

The second the $700 billion bailout was approved (and especially when Paulson wanted no oversight) I said to myself that this was the final push. This was the last withdrawal, closing the account in the process. They profitted from the war, they profitted from Katrina, they profitted from the Bush tax cuts and as a final 'fuck you' to the American people, they backed up the Brinks trucks, and filled them up, passing it out like candy to the CEO children of these corrupt industries.

Remember that $8 BILLION (or was it more?) that went missing in Iraq? - pallets of cash on a supply plane - don't think for a minute that they don't know where that money is. They know exactly where it is and who it went to. Golden parachutes indeed!

they're shameless assholes...

How is this any different from bailing out the auto companies so they can pay their workers $84/hr in wages and benifits for assembly line work, and pay their retirees top of the line health care benefits?

The people that should be handcuffed and frog-marched are the Barney Franks who propped up Fannie and Freddie while they being leveraged 60 to 1.

Heaven knows the employment opportunities in the financial field are looking up. Those hard earned bonuses are just what it takes to keep employees from wanting to join the bread-lines.