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Postby black francis » Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:43 am

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Re: So how about it fellas?

Postby Frank The Bunny » Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:13 am


If I were the candidates, I wouldn't return the money to the AIG execs. Maybe they could donate it to charity (food banks, etc) - or cut a check to the IRS to put it back in the government coffers
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Postby black francis » Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:23 am

I think the article suggested just sending the money to the US Treasury. I'd be on board for charity donations.

Someone needs to shut Dodd up quick. Did he forget he slipped in the provision to allow these bonuses to be paid?
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Postby JackT » Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:29 am

black francis wrote: Did he forget he slipped in the provision to allow these bonuses to be paid?


According to the latest thing I read, he does not know how that provision got in there, or who wrote it.
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Postby black francis » Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:52 am

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Postby withahip » Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:49 pm

Denying bonuses while the company is still public is total populist pandering, is it not? If these people have a contract for these bonuses and are denied them they will simply go to court and get them. If one person makes their quota despite the place doing poorly there is a legal obligation to honor that.

The only way out is to take it private and put AIG into bankruptcy. Nationalize it and sell it off in a couple of years.

This lending money and picking and choosing what areas of the company the gov is going to run is ludicrous.
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Postby withahip » Wed Mar 18, 2009 2:36 pm

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Postby black francis » Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:07 pm

Anybody have access to Obama's birth certificate? I got a theory I'm working on...
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Postby Frank The Bunny » Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:25 pm

black francis wrote:Anybody have access to Obama's birth certificate? I got a theory I'm working on...

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Postby black francis » Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:42 pm

Thanks Frank. Proves my theory.

Shouldn't you be at the movies?
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Postby Frank The Bunny » Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:55 pm

black francis wrote:Thanks Frank. Proves my theory.

Shouldn't you be at the movies?
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Postby withahip » Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:26 pm

And what about John McCain's?

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Postby black francis » Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:36 pm

Don't care.
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Postby In The Margins » Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:48 pm

Did they have paper when John McCain was born?
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Postby JackT » Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:44 pm

JackT wrote:According to the latest thing I read, he does not know how that provision got in there, or who wrote it.


Never mind, it turns out he was lying.
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