Follow the Bailout Cash

If you want to see corruption just look at ACORN. Then follow the money. Both parties are so dirty the dirt rubs off on anything it touches.

Chill out people...The AIG bonuses are .1%, that's 1/1000ths of the bailout money they received. You should be viewing this as the art of misdirection. To focus all the anger and media attention on .1% of the total package is ludicrous. Going after the folks getting bonuses is too easy because they put a tangible face on the crises, but does nothing to bring clarity and understanding to this extremely complex issue. Yes, I'm pissed, but more concerned about the impact on national debt and the rampant deficit spending. Go after the sacred cows....seriously cut back defense spending, shut down some of the 700 military bases we have all over the world, and yes, increase taxes!!! Don't be afraid of "socialized" health care. We already have "socialized" police, firemen, etc. Grow up people...communism failed not because of the socialistic aspects but because of corruption and other myriad forces.

I see a lot of comments here. But in these times where times are tight and people being laid off, why should AIG execs get any bonus at all? They still have their saliaries. OH yes but is ony a million dollars and execs can't live on this per year.

Do they really deserve one and be using bailout money for this? How about the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac exec bonuses? Why do only execs get them and other folks downsized and losing their jobs? Shouldn;t the bailout be used for keeping jobs not just to execs that then state there is no money for workers?

So we use government money to keep the execs happy so they can lay off the workers?

We all knew the massive bailout plan was going to be pay back for campain contributions. This was just payback for the election. What do you expect with the amount of money thrown into the election campaining would cause?

So between the kickbacks, paybacks, and bonuses, I am suprised there is anything left to the poor working soul. But that is the econominc stilmulus package. Give the money to execs and congressman and hope it trickes down. Maybe we could get wetback jobs and clean their yards.

Folks. a nation divided is a nation conquered. This is a new ERA. For the past 40 years you've been RIGHT or LEFT and ready to bash each other. It is different. We may not all agree on everything but we must all agree on this. There is only RIGHT and WRONG and this is WRONG. There is on Republicrat and Demorican. They are the same, taking freedoms, taking the power, and our liberties. ENOUGH! When are you all going to wake up? What will it take?? Our forefathers suffered and sacrificed more to ensure the very thing that is happening now, never happened. Yet we are more outraged that the president is preempting American Idol, then the fact that they are taking more of our freedom and money to make them more powerful.
I say, ENOUGH.

It is a shame that Newsweek was too political to show the connection between Obama, Dodd, Franks, Reid and Pelosi before the election. Newsweek is no longer a valid or credible source of news. They protected Obama and the Dems for too long. I look forward to this POS rag to go out of business, because it is nothing more than a socialist mouthpiece like the rest of the mainstream media.

Our government has stopped representing the public. Ever since the advent of the "professional politician"...the guy who went to Washington, D.C., and stayed there, the people have lost effective representation. When a politician knew he was coming home in 4 or 6 years to resume and earn a living in his home town, he voted in the interest of that town, or state, or county. As soon as he realized that he was not coming back, except to buy votes, his focus becomes what all of us feel..."Protect your Job." The money we pay legislators is not enough for them to take the responsibility...they take it for the prestige and the power. And power leads to corruption...always, especially if given time. There was a good reason that Congress exempted themselves from application of the RICO statutes...they knew what they were doing. The major reason the Organized Crime is a crime it that the Congress didn't want the competition...it made them look bad. This article is just another piece of evidence in a long history that the public and the press ignore of how the government steals from all of us for their own personal aggrandizement But...we put up with it, so we deserve it and maybe we should stop complaining when we get what we deserve.

Eric Cantor is getting 30+ grand in bailout money funneled into his campaign coffers? Nice. I think people are P.O.ed about the AIG bonuses because they are sick of seeing their elected representatives giving the American people lip service but essentially doing the bidding of their corporate masters. Obama is introducing sweeping changes to the regulatory system that will crack down on Wall Street excess and corruption, then we will see who in congress is really with the American people and who are the corporate lap dogs.

"including $2,500 to House GOP Whip Eric Cantor, who also got $10,000 from UBS which, while not a TARP recipient, got $5 billion in bailout funds as an AIG "counterparty." "

So, it isn't just Dodd and the dems. LOL.

Just remember....if McCain had gotten in, we wouldn't be having this conversation.