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Pro-Union Party Targets AIG Exec Homes in Connecticut

Posted in AIG, Barney Frank on March 20th, 2009 by John H – 1 Comment

CNSNews.com reports that the pro-union Connecticut Working Families Party is setting up a “field trip” to show working people where and how the AIG executives live.

Those executives “bear a large share of the responsibility for bringing the economy to its knees, and now the same folks are getting hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses — at our expense,” Connecticut Working Families says on its Web site. “Join us for a field trip to bring them the message.”

Jon Green, the director of Connecticut Working Families, told the New York Times on Friday that his group would be “peaceful and lawful” and would not “foment” lingering rage at AIG “unnecessarily.”

Another case of misplaced blame perpetuated by the likes of Barney “Dickstein” Frank (D-Mass.).

Government Taxing Bonuses To Get Their “Fix”

Posted in AIG, Barack Obama, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Congress, Tim Geithner on March 19th, 2009 by John H – 1 Comment

Today, in yet another show of outrage resulting from corporate “greed” epitomized by the AIG bonusgate, the Democrat led House passed a bill that would tax employee bonuses at companies that received government assistance.

Frankly, I don’t give a damn about AIG handing out bonuses to their execs. It’s about as logical as blaming an addict for indulging in his/her drug of choice if given money knowing full well of their addiction. But in this case, it was the government that forced us to give the addict money and now the same government has the audacity to blame the addict! On top of blame the government is willing to punish the addict including anyone who might enjoy a cigarette or a couple beers responsibly on occassion “for our sake”.

Now Treasury Secretary Tim “Turbo Tax” Geithner came up with the idea to give the addict money in the first place and Obama continues to defend the man’s actions. Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) knew the addict was going to get a fix and helped make it happen. And House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) now feels justified in making an example of anyone close to being an addict.

Anyone else see something wrong with this story besides the poor substance abuse addiction analogy?