On Mar 17, 1:25*pm, wrote:
Chris Dodd, who was among the first to call for taxing the bonuses received by
AIG execs, has been joined by Chucky Schumer, who suggests a 100% tax. *Now it
is (widely/publicly) revealed that Dodd (who, as an aside, was the largest
recipient of AIG contributions in 2008, with something a little over 100K US)
added an amendment to the 787 stimulus that specifically exempted bonuses paid
before the February signing of that mess, and Chucky supported it.

Sheesh,
R

My surprise of the week was . . .
1. AIG paid most of the app $175 billion of our money to . . . banks
and funds, mostly foreign. Thank you Uncle Sap.
2. The unit that put together the "credit default swaps" that papered
over the risks of value change in the securitized debt instruments
that have caused the disaster at AIG is . . . British, based in
London. No wonder Obama was miffed at PM Brown's prancing hypocracy.

Dave
Renegade Capitalism must go.
Greed as a political agenda has failed.