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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
should AIG execs kill themselves?
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley thinks so. Or at least he thought it was a good way to make a point. The long-time Republican Senator knows a bit about pork. After all he’s a farmer.
This time he was talking about the most repulsive of the greedy hogs gorging themselves at the federal trough, those bonus baby execs over at AIG Insurance.
Here’s a report from WHO in Des Moines:
“Iowa’s senior senator may have gone further than anyone on Capitol Hill in expressing his outrage over AIG’s plans to use government bailout money for executives’ bonuses. In a call in to WMT Radio, Chuck Grassley suggested AIG executives apologize or commit suicide.
“The first thing that would make me feel a little bit better about them is if they follow the Japanese’s example and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say ‘I’m sorry’ and do either one of two things, resign or go commit suicide.”
A spokesperson for Grassley told the website Politico that Grassley was speaking rhetorically. She says Grassley’s point was that there’s no culture of shame in the U.S. and no acceptance of responsibility for driving a company into the dirt.
She said if you asked the senator whether he really wants AIG executives to commit suicide, he’d say of course not.”
How do you feel about these hefty AIG bonuses? Wouldn’t you love to be an AIG exec right now? They thumb their noses at America. Has even one of them come forward and offered to return the money? Did they earn it? I want to hear from some of you free marketeers who will defend any bonus or profit. Are you cool with this? Greed. Greed. Greed…
There will be a slew of books written about this turbulent time in our nation’s history…
Vick Mickunas
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