but it's ok when General Motors breaks contracts with its retireees, though.
</sarcasm> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:292476 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
