Did Congress & the Senate vote to give AIG the money?

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Isn't this a failure of our legislators rather than that of AIG management? It was in the bill, wasn't it? Not reading the bill is no excuse, voting for something without reading it is negligence. AIG granted those bonuses due to the negligence of our elected officials. Our officials had the power to set conditions for the money yet they didn't. Now they want to enact an illegal retro active tax on that bonus money???? Is anyone else sensing they do not have a clue on Capital hill?

It makes me ill to hear that some members charged with regulating AIG received "campaign contributions" from that company. Does anyone else suspect a conflict there? Are we supposed to turn a blind eye to that? Business as usual? Is that kind of greed acceptable to you? Should an elected official be able to enrich themselves while in office? Elected office USED to be a sacrifice people made in service of their country. It seems to me they are making citizens sacrifice in service to them at this point.


Take this for what it is, a disgusted rant. It is directed at "the system" we have in place right now. Entrenched politicians that apparently have no accountability for their actions and have enriched themselves while "serving" us.