Do the execs at AIG need a beating or what?

Don’t worry. This dude is about to lay the smackdown.

The HR jackasses do. For not understanding the meaning of the word “Bonus”. “Guaranteed Bonus” is an oxymoron.

I love Chris Dodd’s idea for recouping the money. It may be going around the block to get across the street but at least those shisters won’t get to keep what they don’t deserve.

I can’t remember what we were watching last night, we were just flipping through the channels. The people that are getting some of the larger bonuses, are also in the departments that failed the most…cost the company the most money. AIG has agreed to lower salaries, according to what was being reported. Ready for the pay cut? $1.

jackasses….all of them.

I heard on television a short while ago that 11 of them received one million dollars making them new millionaires. Now they’re calling them “retention bonuses”.

And does anyone else feel like I do, i.e., the stories we hear about (these bonuses, expensive vacations, new jets, etc.) are just the things that are GETTING CAUGHT and that there is a lot more of this kind of thing going on only no one’s catching it? I keep imagining the line item that probably reads “IT maintenance” and actually represents new computer systems and laptops for everyone in the company.

I think they should all have to live in a tent-city with the people who have lost their homes to foreclosure…

Good reason to bring back pillories and public stoning.

Maybe they should be required to register, like sex offenders. Get their cars keyed and their houses spray-painted. That kind of thing.

What they should really do is give the goddamn money back.

The audio won’t be available here until 7:00, but on NPR this afternoon I heard an interview where Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times defends the bonuses. I’m not convinced, but he has an interesting perspective.

Taxing the bonuses at 100%: I like that proposal, even if it does let them off easy.

Remember when “stocks” used to mean this?