can't treasury just deduct the aig bonuses from the next aig bailout payment and move on?

[RepublicanElephant]

seems such a simple way to shut-up the talking heads.

am i missing something here?

[Thrill]

1. Thats what Geithner suggested in the letter to Pelosi and Reid

[jeanpalmer]

2. Yes, that's the obvious way

Give them $28.65 billion instead of $30 billion. And declare victory.

[Telly Savalas]

11. Under this scenario, the folks who helped create this severe recession

still walk away with big fat bonuses for their efforts.

That's not a victory.

[Frank Booth]

3. Yeah, but people don't want idiot AIG employees getting bonuses in the first place.

This plan totally misses that.

[spindrifter]

4. If you just gave them the next payment less the

bonus money,that would short some necessary cost that needed to be paid for. Personally, I think there is still a lot of waste in what AIG is getting--but then I can't imagine receiving that kind of money.

[islandmkl]

5. yeah...that will show the cats with the $165 million that they can't pull that shit....

and get away with it....

oh...wait....they would still have GOTTEN THEIR BONUS MONEY, which seems to be the point of this whole exercise...

[jeanpalmer]

6. How about this

Just bump the payment up to $31.65 billion, subtract the $165 million in bonuses, and give them the original $30 billion. That's how to really punish them. Certainly Congress could agree on that, if campaign contributions were immediately sent to the RNC and DNC..

[MichiganVote]

7. Well it is Washington afterall. First there is the beating of the breast, followed by the BS,

thereby ushering in the marriage to morality contract, promptly beginning the finger pointing and at long last the repentence....resignation, repugnance, and then finally the Congressional sex act...

Acceptance and the pay off.

The sermon of Congress. So sayeth the Lords.

[valerief]

8. They oughta break up AIG. nt

[skorpo]

9. I agree. N/T

[4lbs]

10. Some people on this thread need to rework their math.

n/t