Northwest Indiana Discussion

While the clueless fret over Ann Coulter Cat Fight the idiots running the show make fools of themselves...

This is what happens when the only thing you know about running the country is reading from a teleprompter.

What's truly sad about this one is NOT one goddamn dumbocrap has questioned this....

What's truly sad about this one is NOT one goddamn dumbocrap has questioned this....

You know I've noticed that. They're either holding their tongues or the media has a partially deaf ear to their objections.

holding their tongues?

hell...the barry butt kissers on this board lambaste people for even criticizing their Wizard of Ahhhs...

And meanwhile we have the drug addled gasbag, leader of the GOP, the Limbicile himself, DEFENDING the bonuses to AIG....priceless

Yep, that's right I heard just an hour ago, the GOP leader piece of crap telling his ditto heads that they shoudn't be outraged.

Poor hedge......

Apoplectic and sputtering with rage over everything Rush Limbaugh says.....

And Ann Coulter sends our little hedge over the edge.

This stuff just cracks me up.......

IT'S IN THEIR CONTRACT YOU DUMBASS....as hard at is for you undertsand OBAMA HAS to HONOR IT.

This bullshit outrage he's parading around on TV is nothing but grandstanding...

he HAS NO LEGAL AUTHORITY TO OVERRIDE IT and he knows it....this CHARADE is just to bamboozle you idiots...DESIGNED TO TAKE THE VETS MEDICAL INSURANCE SCAM off page one...and BLAMING OTHERS AS HIS M.O....

unless you want to give him that power...then I know you're REALLY fukked up in the head...YOU REALLY EXPECT they can just pass a law taking away a private citizen's money????????

This moron should have READ WHAT THE f*** IT WAS THAT HE WAS SIGNING..

THIS IS HIS FAULT AND IT CAME OUT OF YOUR POCKET....the guy is a loser clearly out of his league.

He needs to resign OR BE IMPEACHED...and I predict one or the other will happen right before the 2010 elections.

Actually, it was DEMOCRAT Senator Dodd who made sure the language was in the final bill passed that gave AIG the money and allowed them to use it for bonuses. Interestingly enough, DEMOCRAT Senator Dodd was the single largest recipient of campaign donations from AIG during the last election cycle.

Go figure......

Amid AIG Furor, Dodd Tries to Undo Bonus Protections He Put In
Some Details About AIG's Bonuses Are Revealed

Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) on Monday night floated the idea of taxing American International Group (AIG: 0.95, 0.1699, 21.78%) bonus recipients so the government could recoup some or all of the $450 million the company is paying to employees in its financial products unit. Within hours, the idea spread to both houses of Congress, with lawmakers proposing an AIG bonus tax.

The move represents somewhat of an about-face for the Senator.

While the Senate was constructing the $787 billion stimulus last month, Dodd added an executive-compensation restriction to the bill. That amendment provides an “exception for contractually obligated bonuses agreed on before Feb. 11, 2009” -- which exempts the very AIG bonuses Dodd and others are now seeking to tax.

The amendment made it into the final version of the bill, and is law.

Separately, Sen. Dodd was AIG’s largest single recipient of campaign donations during the 2008 election cycle with $103,100, according to opensecrets.org.

Dodd’s office did not immediately return a request for comment.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/market ... ig---time/

Did Obama even read the cover?

dumbass racist wrote:

Yeah, no kidding. LOL
I bet Bonzo's co star is turning over in his grave right now. It looks like Boss Limbaugh, Michael Steele, Republican leaders, Meghan McCain & Coultergeist didn't get Ronnie's memo:
Reagan 11th commandment, "thou shall not criticize another Republican."

The only one's making fools of themselves are Republicans...it's "too funny"

look at yourself in the mirror pal...AFTER you read YOUR stupid response.....Bonzo's co star?

good grief...

sometimes it's better to just keep your mouth shut edge...because I gotta say you definitely removed all doubt.....

tell us again how Obammy is going to wave his magic wand and make the CEO's give up their bonuses!

And then ask that dumb MF'r to PLEASE READ what he signs from now on....

OTOH maybe he KNEW exactly what he was signing....who will take the fall for his incompetence THIS TIME?...no wonder nobody wants to work for this idiot now...

ignorant racist wrote:

LOL. It was your boy, clueless George who singed the bill back in October dumbass.

That's where the money came from you ignorant fool.

Is that the same bill that the Republicans in Congress opposed..?

The one that the Democrats wrote and had pushed into law..?

The one that Obama said was essential to our economy.../

That bill....?

I love this game. Thanks for playing.

Once again this is a case where partisanship gets in the way of actually getting anything done. Another situation where both sides dropped the ball. Another situation where playing politics continues to screw us. Another situation where leaving decision making in the hands of people who need political support does not cover the best interests of the US citizens.

Terms preventing them from giving bonuses was omitted in the original bailout. One that was heavily negotiated by Paulson and Geithner. A mistake the taxpayers are going to pay dearly for.

But our lawmakers are now throwing the markets back into financial turmoil by making threats that we are now going to let AIG go under over $150 Million in Bonuses. We have given them now close to $180 BILLION and we are going to let it all go away over a $150 Million Dollar Mistake? Thats .1 % of the money we have given them. So we are going to just send $180 BILLION into a black hole over .1%?

Instead it's time for the US Government to Man Up and show executive control over a company we basically OWN. The understanding should have been made immediately that they have the decision of taking their bonuses and clearing out their desks, or forgoing their bonuses and keeping their jobs. It is time for us to get involved in protecting OUR interests in the stakes we have taken in these companies instead of threatening to push them out of business.