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03-23-2009, 10:33 AM
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| SAVE BODILESS SPORTSMAN!!   Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arkansas
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|  AIG Bus Tour FAIRFIELD, Conn. – A busload of activists representing working- and middle-class families paid visits Saturday to the lavish homes of American International Group executives to protest the tens of millions of dollars in bonuses awarded by the struggling insurance company after it received a massive federal bailout. About 40 protesters sought to urge AIG executives who received a portion of the $165 million in bonuses to do more to help families. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090322/...us/aig_bonuses Haha...thats awesome. People should do that more often!  |
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03-23-2009, 10:54 AM
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| I'm Dracula, Bitch.   Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Houston, TX
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| Never underestimate the power of a good protest/boycot. |
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03-23-2009, 10:54 AM
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| I wanna be Dave   Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Looking for the Eye
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| To me this was 100% wrong. Next they will be showing up at your house saying you make to much and need to give some of your hard earned money to some low income person. I see this type of behavior being common place in the near future. We are creating class warfare among other things. This aint good. Quote:
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03-23-2009, 11:09 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: everett
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| im watching this on the news right now... the lady said that the AIG ceo's would be smart to have garage sales while the peeps where taking their tours.... im still LMAO |
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03-23-2009, 12:27 PM
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| Throwing Grenades   Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sending illegals home one Hayabusa at a time.
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03-23-2009, 12:31 PM
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03-23-2009, 12:39 PM
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| SAVE BODILESS SPORTSMAN!! Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arkansas
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If they really want to get to the bottom of things, they need to find the persons house that issued the bonuses and protest there... | |
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03-23-2009, 12:51 PM
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| I'm Dracula, Bitch. Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Houston, TX
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03-23-2009, 12:53 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: st. louis
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| granted I don't think the bonuses were a good thing. Now the door is open for forcing contract re-negotiations (UAW) that screws people out of benefits (union retires, that now have to start working again to cover health insurance) With the AIG bonuses the door is open for if you get on the bad side of some gov official they can tax the living shit out of you. bad form on both sides. |
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03-23-2009, 01:23 PM
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| 06 Super National Champ  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Tennessee
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| I see Federal crime in progress... Mary Huguley, center, delivers a letter of protest for Douglas Poling in a mailbox outside his home in Fairfield Conn. on Saturday March 21, 2009. An unidentified security guard working outside the home of Douglas Poling in Fairfield, Conn. directs Mary Huguley to place a protest letter in the mail box, Saturday March 21, 2009. |
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03-23-2009, 01:33 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Looking for the Eye
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That would be the white house, not hard to find. I just heard that it was ACRON who set up the bus trip.........  | |
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03-23-2009, 01:41 PM
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| 06 Super National Champ Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Tennessee
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03-23-2009, 04:42 PM
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| SAVE BODILESS SPORTSMAN!! Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arkansas
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Punch drunk? Possibly, you couldn't pay me enough to take his job. At the same time, you do have to keep some sense of humor to get you through the day. If you didn't your head would explode. | |
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03-23-2009, 06:53 PM
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| I'm Dracula, Bitch. Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Houston, TX
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03-23-2009, 08:18 PM
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| SAVE BODILESS SPORTSMAN!! Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Arkansas
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| Ahh, shame. Ain't it wonderful? |
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03-23-2009, 11:11 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Central California
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| It's Congress' fault they got those bonus's, Senator Chris Dodd (who has recieved more than $150,000 in donations from AIG) wrote it in himself, they've known about these bonus's all along, and what's 165 million dollars compared to the 2 trillion dollars that Congress just wasted? Why aren't there buses going to all thier houses or places of work? The whole AIG bonus fiasco was just a distraction |
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03-24-2009, 12:00 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Praha, Česká republika
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| The saddest thing about AIG is that congress knew about the bonus's and knew they where going to issue them but still gave AIG the money. Then when the public finds out and they freak out, our congress turns there back on AIG and then in a matter of days forces a 90% tax on the bonuses. It is all about votes and not doing what is right anymore, let them give out there bonus's it was under contract. And on a side note part of the bailout if im not mistaken was 150 million dollars to buy congress new cars, i think the bonus's would be more worth while than new cars. Last edited by paintballer9876; 03-24-2009 at 12:03 AM. |
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