Are most of the AIG bonus recipients (the 165mln) Republicans? Remember the government government gave AIG about $170 bln (tax payer money to save their arse? Now for the bad job they want to get bonuses ..... WASHINGTON – For the first time since last fall's election, Democrats and the Obama administration are backpedaling furiously on an issue easily understood by financially strapped taxpayers: $165 million in bonuses paid out at bailed-out AIG.......... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090318/ap_on_an/bonus_stakes
Are the people that allowed the AIG bonuses to be paid, Democrats? Isn't it curious that the link you posted says that Democrat Chris Dodd is the person responsible for changing the stimulus bill so that these bonuses would be paid, hmmm??? You know - the Government, which now owns and runs AIG? The Democrats who, the media are now reporting, put language in the stimulus bill to PROTECT those bonuses? Who is the CEO of AIG? Edward Liddy. How did he get his job? Didn't the Democrats appoint him last September? (BTW, I looked at your link and when I read it, it places all the blame on the Democrats. Absolutely no mention of the politics of the AIG bonus recipients. Are you missing something, or are you engaging in damaged thinking of political spin?) I just listened to Obama give a short speech on CNN. He first said "ultimately I'm responsible", then he said it's not his fault that the bonuses got paid.
The president received a reward from AIG called a campaign donation. The Dems received three times as much as the Republicans. Who's in the pockets of the evil corporations??? Senate Obama, Barack $104,332 Source: http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.php?id=D000000123
Very misleading. These are donations by people that work for AIG (including any lower paid people that work for them.) That doesn't mean the company itself donated any money. It doesn't work like that.
What sort of important does this have to anything at all? Skewing of irrelevant facts such as these lead to misunderstanding because it is nothing more than propaganda.
Ummmm, not that misleading as it is likely that the bulk of that money was from top employees not little guys. I worked at a large company where it was in the papers that the CEO donated a million dollars to one party and his wife donated a million to the other. It paid off for him as he got an ambassadorship to a nice post in Europe. Nobody has a clue who I supported or who I voted for.
tbarr60 - It doesn't work like that. There's a limit of $2300 allowed per individual. When you donate money to a campaign you must tell them who you work for. That's where these numbers come from. Obama actually received a huge amount of smaller donations (including from myself.) Who the employees of a company donate money to really has nothing to do with an issue such as this.
Yes, it DOES work like that. Stop being charmingly naive and wake up to reality. This is how huge companies have always gotten around the donation limit! Don't you know this is how things really work?
Do you have any proof of that? The limit for donations is $2300. Obama received an unprecedented amount of small donations. Over 2 million Americans donated to his campaign. He is America's President and he's doing a great job. God Bless America!
Bancrupting a company or a country and ask for bonuse is generaly the republican way of life. Republican greed for $$$ has no limits.
Actually no. Who are you talking about when you say bankrupting a country? If its Bush, you really need to look at his policies and you will see he actually pushed a lot of left-wing policies, which DEMOCRATS have been pushing for years. As for the bonuses, you do realize it was a contract right? The contract had no clause about what to do if the company was bailed out (it didn't even go into bankruptcy because of the bailout so you might want to get that right next time too) and the government didn't ask for restructuring of the bonus provisions in the contracts before the bailout money went through, so you can't really blame the people for wanting the money because legally they are entitled to it. I bet if your employer went bankrupt and you still weren't paid for your last two weeks of work, you too would go ask for your money. Contracts make this country and this economic system run and if you don't understand that, you really need to do some reading- why do you think people are talking about how the Supreme Court is likely to say the bonus taxes are unconstitutional?