Yes. They were valid contracts signed well before AIG took any bailout money. Our Constitution prohibits the government from breaking contracts between private parties. End of story. If the government wanted to prevent the bonuses from being paid, they should have let AIG go into bankruptcy and dealt with the problem through bankruptcy proceedings in court.
At this point, I would prefer to see AIG in bankruptcy rather than pay any further money to them, but the money already paid is gone. If AIG had only cost taxpayers $170 million instead of $170 billion, I would be quite happy about it, but that's life. Time to flush them down the drain. On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do you support and agree with the paying of bonuses to AIG executives from > the government bailout money? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:292475 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
