Report: AIG asks govA't to approve bonus payments

great! yea, sure have some more money!

raise the money you need by charging the customer more in fees!

AIG Arrogant, Incompodant, Greed. They still don't get it they are a big part of the reason for the economy failure. Top executives making millions and getting millions in bonuses for failure. In what other industry (stock brokers) the more responsibilty you have for the failure the more you are rewarded. This is the equvilant of a commanding officer getting a promotion for getting all his men killed.

No dobt in my mind they will get the bonuses because there appears to be a huge kickback going to Osama and his merry felons. This administration is as crooked as tehy come. watched a congressional inquirry and when they asked the woman inspector where or if there was an investigation to where the trillions dollars went she couldn't answer the question. She did admit that there was no inquiry as to where the $$ wen and no investigation is on the horizon. Just like a las vegas skimming operation. A lot of people are getting rich on our dime. Vote ALL these incumbent bums out.

NO more bonuses. Make due with what you have already. Too many people are losing their jobs, credit and homes. What purpose does the bonuses do for the economy when the taxpayers have bailed them out already. AIG is not a federal company and taxpayers should not bear the burden of these overpaid do nothings.

It appears to me that the last set of bonuses that prompted the congressional hearings and tax thing which the senate apparently did not act on seems to have been just showmanship. I feel sorry for the few poor souls who actually did return their bonuses (if in fact anyone actually did). The lesson again is that if you become the object of public scrutiny, you just need to ride it out for a couple of weeks until the media gets bored, and then you are back on track. Or am I wrong? So what actually was the result of all that handwaving a few months ago by congress in terms of actual bonus money that was or was not recouped?

Are they crazy. Or is is back to business as usual and lets give bonuses to people who are overpaid for doing a lousy job. Forget that less then a year ago they almost took down a major insurance company.

THE FRITO BANDITO wrote:

No dobt in my mind they will get the bonuses because there appears to be a huge kickback going to Osama and his merry felons. This administration is as crooked as tehy come. watched a congressional inquirry and when they asked the woman inspector where or if there was an investigation to where the trillions dollars went she couldn't answer the question. She did admit that there was no inquiry as to where the $$ wen and no investigation is on the horizon. Just like a las vegas skimming operation. A lot of people are getting rich on our dime. Vote ALL these incumbent bums out.

Any proof? Or do you just have a "sort of a feeling about these things"?

give'em everything they want, they are government employees now. Throw in some more bailout money and raise the taxes, it's the american way.

I want to go to one of the gambling centers will A. I. G. insure me I will not lose any money. The same underwriters who guaranteed these derivatives that aren't worth the paper they were wrote up on. The people who they want to retain probably should get bonuses. The people who got them involved in the smoke and mirror investments should be prosecuted.

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These people should not get these bonuses if they have millions of dollars to give away to a bunch of incopetant people then they should give those millions back to the government and payback the taxpayers. There are millions of people out here with no jobs or just living paycheck to paycheck and they want to give people that are already making a fortune more money. This company should be ashamed of itself and be given a stern warning that if they give those bonuses the government will shut them down.

Once again the same old threats about retainning employees for their(GOOD JOB). What a joke, where are they going?

Hahaha!!! Laughing out loud. Once again AIG is taking the lead to make America great!

I'm and anybody who are reading this should also ask gov't to approve your $400,000 bonus payments NOW!!!!

It's evident that the media can fool lots of people a lot of the time.

My mortgage banker doesn't tell me how to spend my wages, as long as I make the payments. Since when does the federal govt (or taxpayers) get to tell private corporations how to pay their employees? Bailout borrowing isn't being used for bonuses, it was used to pay off creditors that our government decided shouldn't go broke.

High-paid execs (which I'm not) are an easy target. The media are getting a lot of people to buy papers. Politicians are getting people to vote for them by stirring up the pot.

What exactly is it these execs do to earn millions of dollars a year? Why not negotiate salary up front like everyone else and learn to live on the amount of your salary? The rank and file workers (the ones who actually produce revenue) aren't even getting costs of living raises and told they are lucky to have a job because the company is in dire straights while the CEO makes bank.
Is there some sort of tax break on a bonus or what/ I don't understand why the execs want this so bad. Obviously, I'm just a rank and file.

Where can I go to sign up to work for AIG? I live on Social security and need a bonus.I do not see why monkey face (obama) just doesn't print more money,,he has done nothing so far to help the little people,,promises of jobs (never happened) getting things back on track,,only thing on track is his family flying around the world with him,,great to be the President kids,,even bush did not do this with his family,,of course his kids were older,,,just think what monkey faces kids will tell their teachers when school starts,,"We went on vacations at the taxpayers expense and had a blast.
Our daddy gave money to bail out certain companies so they could give bonuses to their employees,,is he great as a prez. And just think you little people are going to pay to pay for the bailouts,,,we love our daddy

apache wrote:

Where can I go to sign up to work for AIG? I live on Social security and need a bonus.I do not see why monkey face (obama) just doesn't print more money,,he has done nothing so far to help the little people,,promises of jobs (never happened) getting things back on track,,only thing on track is his family flying around the world with him,,great to be the President kids,,even bush did not do this with his family,,of course his kids were older,,,just think what monkey faces kids will tell their teachers when school starts,,"We went on vacations at the taxpayers expense and had a blast.
Our daddy gave money to bail out certain companies so they could give bonuses to their employees,,is he great as a prez. And just think you little people are going to pay to pay for the bailouts,,,we love our daddy

Unfortunately for those on Social Security their usual COLA (cost of living allocation) increase has been stopped. COLA increases in previous yers have been increased between 2%-5% each year. Amazing that the government again plays with peoples lives in many ways.

The government has gained much publicity to show and keep major corporations such as AIG groveling at their feet; while not publicizing the fact they have discontinued retirees COLA increases and keeping that news buried (only to send those on Social Security a terse letter that COLA increases have been stopped.

Once again, Government at work for you!!!

Forget it. No bonus. They would have been bankrupt and lost it anyway.

these people are lucky they still have a job .there like pimp/s looking for free money that other people worked for ,thats our tax dollars. if it was up to me they would get s--t.

Do it like all private American companies are doing nowaday. Ship AIG and all its jobs including its CEOs to Mumbai & Bangalore where the avg pay is only $4000 per employee and retention bonus or whatever you called it bonus is never required.

Please do it and save a boat load of money for the American taxpayers for once.