Insurance giant AIG to pay $165 million in bonuses

[Scott50]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090315/ap_on_bi_ge/aig_bonuses/

[CompTweaker]

Welcome to the fleecing of America.

[Minnymouth]

We bailed out AIG once already last fall...... WHY ARE WE DOING IT AGAIN NOW!!! ALSO, WHY are executives getting bonuses from a company that is FINANCIALLY FAILING......... sounds like a lot of "bonus people" weren't doing THEIR JOBS!!! And why should we as the tax payers of America pay them a "bonus" for not doing their job???
Its time some of these banks failed and shut down, to "break the cycle" that the big business have created.
These businesses created a lot of these problems by loaning funds to people that could not afford the payments on them or had bad credit and let them have the loans anyways.
I feel that the "stimulus pkg" should have been put in place to help the tax payer - mainly because that is what it is "tax payer money"...... not money to bail out big business for their STUPIDITY...... and then the businesses turn around and use it for bonuses they say they 'have to pay'...............
Personally, I feel that there are a lot of "grave mistakes" taking place with all this 'bail-out' money................

[StartingOver08]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/business/28nocera.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all