> RoMunn wrote: > Like Gruss said, these big firms hire smart guys like Obama all the > time. I'll bet there are classmates of Obama's from Harvard at AIG, > Lehman, and Merrill.
Dude. Stop trapping yourself with ill-thought out accusations. YOU own AIG now, not them! And those classmates of Obama's are buying assets in Europe with the $20M in bonuses they've collected in the last 5 years. And it's all legal! Hopefully you realize this. Don't you? In the nuttiest of nutshells, there were (are?) too many players in banking. The traditional trading-type revenues were no longer cutting it. So the banks took advantage of open regulation to make riskier and riskier investments to pump up returns. They really had no choice and the government opened the door wide open. It worked. Up until it didn't. And now you're bailing them out. Essentially you just bought them a Paris apartment. I know the partisan bickering is sporting, but I'm starting to get REALLY concerned that people truly don't get what's happening. This isn't over by a long shot and the message from the government is, "be risky and take your bonus; when the house of cards falls the taxpayer will cover your exit out of the building" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:269733 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
