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AIG Bonus Recipients' Names Revealed

March 18, 2009 RSS Feed Print

AIG compensation American International Group paid bonuses of $1 million or more to 73 employees, including 11 who no longer work for the company.

Pitchfork populism is all the rage these days. Take the Nationwide Chicago Tea Party protests that occurred late last month or next month's tedious planning for an even larger antistimulus movement, also known as the Nationwide Tax Day Tea Party. Discourse that claims to support "the people" over "the elites" has reached a high-pitched level as details about the $165 million payout for top executives at the ailing AIG have emerged over the past few days. And for many Americans—whose thoughts of their tax dollars falling into the hands of AIG's top executives have them downright furious—there's now something else to bite into: the names of some of the executives in the financial-products unit who accepted the bonuses. According to the New York Post , they all happen to live in Connecticut!

The three executives identified are James Haas, 47, executive vice president and the coleader of North American marketing; Douglas Poling, 48, the unit's general counsel, director, executive vice president, and chief administrative officer; and Jonathan Liebergall, 43, unit director and head of municipal finance.

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we cannot protest because the police/military/guard/fbi/whatever whom the american tax payer paid training and pays salary for will harass them, beat them, arrest them. This country is backwards and the ones protecting the country (most of them) are going after the wrong people...but hey they are doing only what they've been told to do. To serve and protect...really? Protect whom? 95.5% of the time I'm harassed by local police or state troopers especially after midnight when I'm coming home from a 48 hour shift from the emergency room. I think driving past midnight is still legal right? Backwards and brainwashed just like the medicine I studied - two hours of nutrition, but countless time on managing (not curing) with pharmaceuticals...really? It's only going to get worse.
Many people are not getting mad over bailouts because they don't see the big sums of money directly coming out of their bank accounts. They don't put together the rising cost of living coming from the state. Example: I had to fork over $30 to the state to renew my license. At one time this only cost $8..then $10. This past year I was pulled for not having my seat belt on, which I clearly did (I see too many accidents not to). Then the story changed... I wasn't wearing it properly. Clearly this guy didn't know what was going on, but still proceeded to give me $150 dollar ticket that I was required to pay the state or further actions (and fines) would follow. So where is the justice really coming from? Night school police officers who at the flick of a pen "can ruin our insurance"? Don't get me wrong - some are great and do put their lives in danger, but I could say the same for myself as well as other colleagues.
America wants to be free and we are no longer free. Nope. According to the American Medical Association (AMA), it's now against the law for doctors to treat cancer patients with anything other than radiation and/or chemotherapy.
What?!
How and when did the AMA form...look it up and then look up what companies they whom formed the AMA own. It's sad, but the truth is there.

A Wade of NC 3:27AM January 07, 2011

Give them there bonus, then fire them with no addition compensation.

me of CA 12:17PM November 30, 2009

If "we the people" don't ban together to form an unstoppable force our government will continue with business as usual. While we weren't looking they became very powerful and they won't give up that power without a fight. They forgot they work for us because we haven't reminded them in about 30 years.
Please check out the Tea Parties being held in your area and lets unite to demand our country back. I'd like the 'fools on the hill' to be submitted to drug testing, background checks, credit checks and IRS checks. I am, in order to keep my job that pays their salaries. I figure that'll elimate about 50% of them. That's a start!
Outraged in Virginia

Outraged in VA of VA 7:28PM March 23, 2009

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