Comments on: Idle Musings: The Inflection Point http://www.wholesomereading.com/2009/03/16/idle-musings-the-inflection-point/ Musings on culture and politics by baseball writer Steven Goldman Sat, 19 May 2012 10:31:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Paul P http://www.wholesomereading.com/2009/03/16/idle-musings-the-inflection-point/#comment-667 Paul P Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:04:18 +0000 http://www.wholesomereading.com/?p=440#comment-667 AIG! OMG, I know somebody who works there... they saved the company around 50 thousand in fines over the past year and all they got for their work was a slightly better parking spot! Yeah, hand out bonuses to the bone heads who made the company hemorrhage money and nothing to the people who saved the company money! But tell me what these people were thinking anyway? They are givin this money and told they would loose control of said business if the money is not repaid in a certain amount of time... so they use 1/3 of the money (maybe more) for bonuses?! Exactly how is that going to make them money?! The idiots running the show will become smarter the more money you throw at them? AIG! OMG, I know somebody who works there… they saved the company around 50 thousand in fines over the past year and all they got for their work was a slightly better parking spot! Yeah, hand out bonuses to the bone heads who made the company hemorrhage money and nothing to the people who saved the company money!

But tell me what these people were thinking anyway? They are givin this money and told they would loose control of said business if the money is not repaid in a certain amount of time… so they use 1/3 of the money (maybe more) for bonuses?! Exactly how is that going to make them money?! The idiots running the show will become smarter the more money you throw at them?

]]> By: geraldy http://www.wholesomereading.com/2009/03/16/idle-musings-the-inflection-point/#comment-666 geraldy Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:05:52 +0000 http://www.wholesomereading.com/?p=440#comment-666 Of course we are here talking about an amount of money equal to 0.1% of the total amount of bailout money given to AIG. Maybe smart people should spend some time thinking about and discussing nationalization schemes that would allow the government to recoup some of the money given to the banks instead of engaging in cheap (and rather boring) moralism. Of course we are here talking about an amount of money equal to 0.1% of the total amount of bailout money given to AIG.

Maybe smart people should spend some time thinking about and discussing nationalization schemes that would allow the government to recoup some of the money given to the banks instead of engaging in cheap (and rather boring) moralism.

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