Ayep!

You know, there is such an arrogance and sense of entitlement from these executives that makes people despise them for what they've done. These people haven't stolen just our wallets, these people have stolen our future. Are they so tone deaf that they can't hear the anguish, are they so myopic that they can't see what they've done?

They just cannot understand why people are so angry at having to pay these people bonuses for sticking around to undo the damage that they've done to this country. They have no duty, no allegiance, no sense of obligation and responsiblity to anyone or anything but themselves.

They're suing the U.S. taxpayers for a return of overpaid taxes (according to them) for their own overevalutation of their income to protect the fact that their bottom line was chimera, a false image to boost their own profitablity and attraction to investors. Now, because of their greed, their chicanery, their downright thievery, they have the chutzpah to demand that money back.

They get on their private jets and fly to Washington D.C. to ask lawmakers, at the expense of the American taxpayer, to fashion a welfare program explicitly for them, not because they're starving in the streets, or they lost money in sacrifice to the country, but because of their own stupidity and greed and then complain when they are held to the standards of the contract that they entered into with the taxpayers of this country. It states specifically in that contract, that executives' compensation is subject to the review and sanctions of the lawmakers themselves.

These people are welfare recipients, they are like every other welfare recipient in this country subject to the rules and regulations of that program.

To obtain a tax advantage, they took the gamble of deferring their 2008 income tax until 2009. When you take that kind of gamble, you are subject to the taxes of the year in which the income is paid, not the year for which it is earned. This income is not only subject to the tax code of 2009, it is subject to the review of congress, which they readily agreed to when they asked for the bailout.

These people have received unprecedented tax breaks, bailouts and advantages that the office worker that was just laid off because of their rank greed and stupidity does not have. He has no place to go to receive a bailout, he has no advantage of deferring his income to lessen his tax burden, he sees his entire future being swallowed up by these carrion - I'm surprised he's not more angry than he is.

Now I don't expect these incredibly greedy little pigs to take responsibility for what they've done, but the very least they can do is stop whining about the rules they agreed to when they took the money.

I looked into this a bit. It's confusing as hell and there isn't really a statement either way. There are many implications that indeed they are making payments, but I cant't put my fingers on what rate.

But I found all sorts of other interesting stuff too.

Look at this deal: AIG CDO LLC Facility

IMO much of the AIG bailout has been a front to funnel money to entities other than AIG. I just don't see how we can pin that on people like DeSantis and others who, in good faith, continued at AIGFP. It's intellectually dishonest and it lets the real culprits off the hook.