Comments on: Look beyond the bogus bonus smokescreen

By: Patterico’s Pontifications » Distracting distractions and the people who love them

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:15:51 +0000

[...] other day, Michelle Malkin urged readers against being distracted by the $165 million in taxpayer-backed bonuses for AIG [...]

By: chaosrainz

chaosrainz — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:40:27 +0000

People who think those bonuses need to be paid back are evil and anti-American. Those people did nothing wrong. Even if they did a lousy job, millions of people do that every day and still keep their jobs and get paid for it. Look at congress if you don’t believe me.
These people took a job in good faith and expected what they were promised. Harping about how much they earned is just jealousy. I make less than $30k a year and I say God bless ‘em.

Why is it that CEOs and bankers get the, “oh i can’t believe they make that much; that’s just crazy; nobody should make that much” speeches and yet actors, writers, athletes, retired politicians and nascar drivers make tons more and that’s fine? I guess the difference is that they look good doing it.
Grow up.

By: JeffH

JeffH — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:07:59 +0000

1. raise your hand if you made $165 million last year? $1 million? Now maybe that’s not a lot of money for congressmen spending trillions, but for the rest of us it is.

2. no one in the media notes the hypocrisy of congress complaining about AIG bonuses when they just voted themselves automatic pay raises …

By: Michelle Malkin » The David Copperfield School of Economic Recovery, Pt. II

Michelle Malkin » The David Copperfield School of Economic Recovery, Pt. II — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:24:32 +0000

[...] you know, the trillions of generous taxpayer subsidies we’ve already poured down the hole have worked such wonders to “accelerate the [...]

By: 29Victor

29Victor — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:00:29 +0000

This all reminds me of the witch scene from Monty Python (what doesn’t, really…).

They create the witch, then they want to destroy her for being a witch. Sorry it’s so looooong.

CROWD:
A witch! A witch! A witch! A witch! We’ve found a witch! A witch! A witch! A witch! A witch! We’ve got a witch! A witch! A witch! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! We’ve found a witch! We’ve found a witch! A witch! A witch! A witch!
VILLAGER #1:
We have found a witch. May we burn her?

CROWD:
Burn her! Burn! Burn her! Burn her!
BEDEVERE:
How do you know she is a witch?
VILLAGER #2:
She looks like one.
CROWD:
Right! Yeah! Yeah!
BEDEVERE:
Bring her forward.
WITCH:
I’m not a witch. I’m not a witch.
BEDEVERE:
Uh, but you are dressed as one.

WITCH:
They dressed me up like this.
CROWD:
Augh, we didn’t! We didn’t…
WITCH:
And this isn’t my nose. It’s a false one.
BEDEVERE:
Well?
VILLAGER #1:
Well, we did do the nose.
BEDEVERE:
The nose?
VILLAGER #1:
And the hat, but she is a witch!
VILLAGER #2:
Yeah!
CROWD:
We burn her! Right! Yeaaah! Yeaah!
BEDEVERE:
Did you dress her up like this?
VILLAGER #1:
No!
VILLAGER #2 and 3:
No. No.
VILLAGER #2:
No.
VILLAGER #1:
No.
VILLAGERS #2 and #3:
No.
VILLAGER #1:
Yes.
VILLAGER #2:
Yes.
VILLAGER #1:
Yes. Yeah, a bit.
VILLAGER #3:
A bit.
VILLAGERS #1 and #2:
A bit.
VILLAGER #3:
A bit.
VILLAGER #1:
She has got a wart.
RANDOM:
[cough]
BEDEVERE:
What makes you think she is a witch?
VILLAGER #3:
Well, she turned me into a newt.
BEDEVERE:
A newt?
VILLAGER #3:
I got better.
VILLAGER #2:
Burn her anyway!
VILLAGER #1:
Burn!
CROWD:
Burn her! Burn! Burn her!…

By: 29Victor

29Victor — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:51:30 +0000

If they’re not going to give [the bonuses] back, we’re going to take them back!

I’m thinkin’ there’s a whole log of Obama voters who wish they could do the same thing with their votes right now.

Too bad regular citizens, unlike Congress, are constrained from changing their minds.

By: AIG bonuses, Special Olympics, and the perpetual campaign « Wellsy’s World

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:16:43 +0000

[...] Malkin is right, however, when she warns to remain undistracted from the bonus smokescreen. Ultimately the millions in bonuses are a small percentage of the billions of unwarranted taxpayer [...]

By: inspiredhome

inspiredhome — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:35:38 +0000

I was thinking more along the line of give it ALL back. Ever since they passed the income tax amendment and created all those God forsaken government programs. If they really wanted to help us out they’d cut the budget.

By: Laree

Laree — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:51:52 +0000

A.I.G. Taking us all on Mr Toad’s Wild Ride.

http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/03/aig-taking-us-all-on-mr-toads-wild-ride.html

By: RabbidSquirrel

RabbidSquirrel — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:06:20 +0000

I wouldn’t mind the government recovering the bonuses if they intended to give it back to the taxpayers. Like that’s going to happen.

Yeh, give what back. Thats like a $.50 stimulus check to every person in the U.S.

Well, now that I think about it. I’ve never known what a stimulus check is, because I’ve never gotten one. So $.50 would be a nice little surprise in the mailbox. (But arent stamps $.42 these days?)

So when poor people use their stimulus checks to buy cigarettes, booze and drugs, is that really helping out the economy anyway?

By: CWinNY

CWinNY — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:33:47 +0000

Seems to me this policy of making someone the scapegoat for all economic difficulties has been tried before. Maybe the Obama administration could try making all the “evil” bankers, Wall Street executives, and speculators all wear a Green Dollar cloth patch on their clothing (pink triangles and yellow star of Davids having been already taken). That way all the Democrats could easily tell who the “bad” guys are.

By: inspiredhome

inspiredhome — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:22:26 +0000

I wouldn’t mind the government recovering the bonuses if they intended to give it back to the taxpayers. Like that’s going to happen.

By: Chard402003

Chard402003 — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:29:29 +0000

If they truly want to restrict bonuses to people who have caused havoc to the economy, Congress need look no further than Congress.

By: cheapseat

cheapseat — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:26:02 +0000

it is sunday morning, and the dear leader has just announced another 1 trillion dollar bailout for the banking and mortgage industry. we the taxpayers will buy the “toxic” assets on the books of the mortgage lending/banking industry so they can get back to lending more money to deadbeats creating more toxic assets. as we speak, dear leader has put several trillions into the reserve accounts of the banks, but they can’t or won’t lend it out because they can’t find borrowers. the term is pushing on a rope. ropes can only be pulled if they are to be effective. but dear leader seems to believe that putting trillions into the reserve accounts of these banks, and removing their dead assets, that that will get them to loan more. and this from a harvard man!

By: plymouthacclaim

plymouthacclaim — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:04:56 +0000

I think these are the versed you are looking for:

Ezekiel 18:23
Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?

Ezekiel 33:11
Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, O house of Israel?’