AIG to Pay Millions To Top Workers

Move Comes on Heels Of Revised Bailout

American International Group plans to pay out $503 million in deferred compensation to some of its top employees, saying it must tap the funds to keep valuable workers from exiting the troubled insurance giant. Full Story »

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Jack Dinkmeyer
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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Nov. 14, 2008

This story should be titled: "How We're Squandering Taxpayer Money." and comes under the heading of a puff piece using as research, quotes from an AIG spokesperson. Pretty shoddy stuff for the Washington Post. After offering the usual "why -we're-not-doing-what-we're-supposed-to be-doing" excuses so currently in vogue, the article just quits.

In convincing a reluctant congress the $700 billion was absolutely essential to save the economy, Bush and his Secretary of the Treasury were overly emphatic about how much oversight would be put into place to ensure there would be none of the usual Bushie hanky-panky. Well, one third of the money has been poured down the banking rathole and for what? Where’s all that control we were promised as we continue our slide into a depression?

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