Grassley, AIG, suicide

[DawnCt1]

These guys failed. They don't deserve bonuses. And I don't think I shuold have to pay for their bonuses. They are capable, let them find work elsewhere. My grandpappy worked 4 jobs at the age of 2 years old, and he took night classes as well. He never asked for a handout from the American taxpayer. If he could do it, AIG executives could do it.

Walking up hill both ways!

 

[Olaf]

This whole AIG thing is just more of Obama's shell game.

Contributions to Obama Campaign Track Bailout Money

AIG's $43.5 billion in payments to Wall Street banks that gave to the president's election is lost in the ruckus being made over the executive bonuses.

March 17, 2009 - by Bob Owens

Barack Obama’s lack of leadership in a down economy has now hit crisis proportions, as his claimed inability to block millions of dollars in bonuses for executives of bailout recipient AIG has caused even his supporters to turn on him.

But while the ire of Congress and the media focus are on the $165 million that AIG paid out in bonuses to their executives, the president is hoping you won’t notice the $100 billion in taxpayer bailout dollars that AIG paid out to other banks, including $58 billion to foreign banks and $36 billion given to French and German banks alone.

The Obama administration is allowing AIG to bail out the rest of the world with your tax dollars.

So by all means, the president is happy to have you railing at “evil” but relatively small potatoes AIG executive bonuses, as it points your outrage away from his own far more costly executive abuses.

And of course, the re-distributor-in-chief hopes you won’t notice where much of the rest of the AIG bailout cash is being spent.

While $58 billion of your tax dollars — or more accurately, your children’s tax dollars — are being used to pay foreign banks, a substantial portion of that money ($43.5 billion) is being used to pay American banks, including Goldman Sachs, Merill Lynch, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wachovia, Morgan Stanley, AIG International, and JP Morgan.

The following recipients of President Obama’s trickle-down-to-my-donors bailout plan rank among his top 20 contributors to his 2008 presidential election campaign, according to Open Secrets:

Goldman Sachs: $955,473

Citigroup: $653,468

JP Morgan Chase & Co.: $646,058

Morgan Stanley: $485,823


Three other banks that were significant contributors to Obama received money through AIG:

Bank of America: $274,493

Wachovia: $214,151

AIG: $112,170

Lehman Brothers, which did not survive long enough to join the list of banks leaching off the work of the American taxpayer, also gave the Obama campaign $276,088.

Individuals identifying themselves as working for the banks above gave Barack Obama’s presidential campaign $3,617,724. In other words, more than 3.6 million reasons for the president to help focus the media’s glare on the relatively minuscule $165 million in AIG executive bonuses, and away from their $43.5 billion portion of $100 billion of taxpayer dollars the administration, by design or incompetence, filtered to other banks through AIG.

In receiving $43.5 billion for their investment of just over $3.3 million, it looks like the banks that gambled on Wall Street certainly got their money’s worth out of their investment in Barack Obama.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/contributions-to-obama-campaign-track-bailout-money/

I have to admit it, he's very good at it--the shell game, that is. I am liking that title, "Re-distributor-in-Chief ". Very appropriate.

 

[ntsammy5]

And McCain got similar contributions. So what. They were all hedging their bets.


http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/search_donor.php

 

[Olaf]

And McCain got similar contributions. So what. They were all hedging their bets.


http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/search_donor.php

Similar? Baloney.


Goldman Sachs

Citigroup

JP Morgan

More on Dodd's involvement and AIG's contributions to Dems.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/finance/dodd-cracks-aig---time/

 

[ntsammy5]

OK so EMPLOYEES of Goldman Sachs NOT Goldman Sachs contributed $955M of $378MM or 0.25% of the total - I bet that bought a lot of influence,.

And GS contributed $255M or 0.14% of McCains total - neither of these is eye opening and neither bought influence.

 

[Olaf]

OK so EMPLOYEES of Goldman Sachs NOT Goldman Sachs contributed $955M of $378MM or 0.25% of the total - I bet that bought a lot of influence,.

And GS contributed $255M or 0.14% of McCains total - neither of these is eye opening and neither bought influence.

Of course they bought influence. What? They gave them that money out of the goodness of their soul? Please. Seems as if it was good decision on their part.