{"id":6996,"date":"2009-03-18T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6996"},"modified":"2009-03-18T14:08:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T21:08:14","slug":"i-dont-care-about-aigs-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6996","title":{"rendered":"I Don’t Care About AIG’s Bonuses"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess I’m just in the minority here, but I’m having a bit of trouble getting exercised about $165 million<\/a> (just to put that into perspective, the movie sequel The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian<\/i> had a budget of $200 million<\/a>) in bonuses to AIG employees.<\/p>\n

Yeah, it’s a shame that approximately one-tenth of one-percent of the $144 billion made available<\/a> to the company by the federal government in bailout monies went to such bonuses, but where is all the furor from public officials, media outlets and bloggers — from both Right and Left — over the 12 b<\/b>illions<\/i> of dollars (with a “b”) sent over to Iraq<\/a> as pallets of cash (literally, shrink-wrapped $100 bills), which then simply disappeared into that t<\/b>rillion (with a “t”) dollar rat hole without accounting or explanation?<\/p>\n

Where is the outrage and accountability<\/i> there? Nowhere.<\/p>\n

How about the $4 billion (with a “b”) that went to the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 to purchase privately made electronic voting systems which don’t work and don’t meet the federal standards<\/a> it was claimed that they did?<\/p>\n

It’s curious, but not particularly surprising by now, the stuff that folks in Congress get selectively pissed off about, the stuff that media (both mainstream and blogosphere) go selectively wall-to-wall over, versus the stuff they don’t.<\/p>\n

You’ll pardon me if I’m not particularly moved much at all by the latest round of AIG sturm-und-drang<\/em>, hand-wringing, navel-gazing, finger-pointing and speechifying. Oh, and about the still-free bin Laden, and the still-free anthrax killer…well, don’t get me started. Guess those things don’t much matter.<\/p>\n

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