
Originally Posted by
relmor2003
This is kind of a funny issue. I am actually very anti governemnt involvment, usually....BUTTTTT
If your going to take government money, than your subject to government condition(new or old). Since taxpayers want this, there is nothing they can do about it. They have PR on their side, and its the moral choice. Go Obama(whom I do not like normally, nor does this change my view). Since the company doesnt exist today without that money, the government can tell them what to do with it.
If you want to be sick, you know those margins calls you got when Sirius went from 3 dollars to under $2? Thats where the AIG money went, to pay off bets they could never win, to banks. Banks made that money basically. So why do execs who overleveraged, and put their company in this problem deserve $1 of bonus money. I could care less what those contracts say. Those contracts became irrelevant the second they went under(well, the Government bailed them out, so consider AIG a failed business model).