A true leader would actually explain this to the people and then explain why it was a waste of time to worry about it… but he’s not a true leader and would probably rather people be outraged at the “bonus” issue rather than the fact that the billions paid to AIG went to other companies even though that’s probably not a bad thing, either, for the economy.

That’s why they are going to stuff as much socialsimm down our throat before the gag mechanism kicks in. And I doubt the republicans will ever have large enough majorities in both houses and have the White House to overturn it.

No sunset clauses in legislation that dems pass only legislation that Republicans pass.

He took his sophies sword in hand:
Long time the middie foe he sought –
So rested he by the dulcet tree,
Did teleport awhile in thought.

And, as in hopcha thought he stood,
The Barabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came spattle through the dedings wood,
And orwast as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The sophies blade went wallbanger-bling!
He left it dead, and with its head
He put it on a spring.

“And, who was slain by Barabberwock?
Called to arms, my leg-tingle boy!
O Social day! Commue! Commay!’
They chortled in their joy.

`Twas ACORL, and the slithy corfs
Did spind and weffle in the dask:
All fleemy were the boromorfs,
And the pfleg wraite outermask.

What another poster on another thread shared was how survivors of the ol’ sove-yet cystum said “they pretended to pay us, and we pretended to work”

Sounds like they now think those old “wage debates” are OVER, just like AlGore, and those “what’s enough, 50 dollars and hour? 100?” questions are not nearly so far-fetched, so pie-in-the-sky after all, I mean, look at all the money we’ve already looted from these suckers, $850,000,000,000 billion here, 1.5 trillion the next time… hey, we’re all just thinkin too small time, let’s shoot the works!

This is better than money on trees! Look at it, its already here! And we don’t have to pick it off them trees til they’re bare!

Yah-hoooo!!!

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/18/are-we-disarming-pilots/

“The prohibition required under clause (i) shall not be construed to prohibit any bonus payment required to be paid pursuant to a written employment contract executed on or before February 11, 2009, as such valid employment contracts are determined by the Secretary or the designee of the Secretary.”

President Zero signed that bill.

Chris Dodd and Zero were the largest recipients of AIG contributions in 2008.

Their outrage is as faux as faux can be. The AIG folks are just the next wave of bus differential inspectors.

The thing that pissed me off this morning is when I saw the Zero had plenty of time to spend yesterday with ESPN picking his NCAA bracket.

When will we start hearing serious calls for torches and pitchforks?

It’s the same as the tired minimum wage “debate” we have every few years (what’s enough, how about $50 an hour? $100?), only squeezing from the other end on executive level compensation. Equal pay for equal misery, punishing success and thereby killing the productive drive of employees and entreprenaurs alike. Senators grandstanding, threatening to confiscate what is not legally theirs, all in the name of “social justice.”

Giving in to the populist fury of the ignorant – indeed, *joining* in it – is precisely what the statist (collectivist, socialist, whatever you like…) goons want. All the better to control you and expand their power. It’s positively Chavezesque.

There is a reasonable case that the conventional insurance component of AIG should have been saved, and the derivatives-writing component allowed to go into Chapter 11 (or worse)