Comments on: Prez didn’t push for bailout so execs could get facials

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:28:23 +0000

AIG did cancel a similar event planned in Half Moon Bay.

AIG website has the following statement related to the last event:

“The event, mischaracterized as an “Executive Retreat,” was held by one of AIG’s insurance subsidiaries for independent life insurance agents, not for AIG employees.”

So Obama was incorrect in his statement to fire the executives. What he really meant to say was fire the self-employed … and demand the money back.

Nice going Obama! Every small business owner supports your efforts to help our Country.

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:23:35 +0000

Kevin - the photo is of the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay, where AIG plans to hold their next blowout bash next week, as cited in this post.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:19:09 +0000

Picture is of an other resort.
Why?
Does the author not know which is which?
OC Register has no one else who saw this too?

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:33:55 +0000

@caseclosed (mindclosed?)

Just a little English lesson for you:

shot = shut
3ed = 3rd
your = you’re

Here’s a good idea for you. Why don’t you go back to school and see if you can progress beyond sixth grade, then you could be qualified to actually write comments on the web without embarrassing yourself by displaying your lack of education and proofreading skills. Once that’s accomplished you could then start on acquiring some other rather basic knowledge such as logic, history, geography. I was going to add philosophy and debating skills, but I get the impression that’s probably beyond your capabilities, even though most schoolchildren in my first world country have studied it rather extensively by the time they graduate. Of course most of them don’t leave school functionally illiterate either, but then they don’t live in “the greatest country in the world”.

By: JB Scale

JB Scale — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:55:21 +0000

The reality is that Bush could probably care less. As the President of the United States, he is easily within his right to bring the hammer down on AIG but he won’t…why? Because he really doesn’t care. If he did, he would do something….simple as that.

He throws a quote out to the news that he’s disgusted, but the reality is that words without action are meaningless…as this President has shown us over and over again.

Besides, he’s too busy lining up book deals and speaking tours for when he’s out of office.

McCain is another politician (in the worst sense of the word)…just blathering generalities, playing on dumb folks’ inability to really think thru problems….tossing out one-liner “solutions” like their Snickers bars for the dumb to chew on.

By: caseclosed

caseclosed — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:36:15 +0000

Fred shot up and go back to Mexico or whatever 3ed world country your from. Our country is still the greatest in the world.

By: K S

K S — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:47:58 +0000

Americans Are Just Dumbs.There Taxes are spent like this.They spent 100 of Billions of dollars to earn hatared all over the world.Common American are now feeling Job security problems.
Stupid Country

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:10:16 +0000

Christ, when are you Yanks going to wake up and smell the coffee. 20% of your population doesn’t have health care now, when the economy collapses and jobs disappear that’ll probably jump to 40%, and those lucky ones who still have some form of insurance will be so hedged about by exclusions that they’ll probably still face bankruptcy if they get seriously ill. The wealthiest (well, so far anyway) nation in the world can’t provide healthcare for over 20% of it’s population? That’s ridiculous and not a sign of a sick economy but a sick society, but you can’t have have “gummint” provided healthcare like the rest of the civilized world because…. that would be (take a deep breath) SOCIALISM! Oh the horror! Most of the indoctrinated parrots who repeat that line won’t earn as much in their lifetimes as the fatcats at the top of their “health care” industry earn in a month, like the AIG exec who’s taken $280 million out of AIG in the last five years while creating this mess. Never mind, just keep parrotting the line while your puppet masters laugh all the way to the bank (if they can find one they’ve still left in business).

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:27:12 +0000

You all can relax…AIG is in the process of selling American General Life (their strongest, most solid company–and by the way, American General Life is regulated and has oversight in all 50 states–always has and still does)–the event at St. Regis was a compensation one for agents (not CEOs) and no taxpayer money was used. No, not a cent of your money.
But American General Life will be sold, dismantled and sucked into another insurance company. ..Where the same kind of events as argued over here will be held and we taxpayers won’t pay a thing for those events either.
Now AIG-FC….that’s a whole other story…and AIG-FC caused the fall (even of a strong company they owned like American General Life.) A lot of people in that company (regular people) will lose their jobs and healthcare. Perhaps it makes most of you happy to consider that. And I said regular people…cause they’re like me. I’m no CEO, nor am I wealthy, but I do know the insurance business of which I’m for the moment a part of.

By: hwood

hwood — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:53:46 +0000

YOU GUYS KEEP CRYING I LOVE WORKING FOR AIG…..

I HAVE MY BACK MASSAGED MY BELLY FILLED WITH LOTS OF VODKA AND THEY PAY FOR HOOKERS…

WHY IS ANYONE COMPLAINING FOR!!!!!!