AIG considers suing government for bailing it out

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2013/01/aig-thinking-about-suing-government-bailing-it-out/60698

After it used the taxpayer money for big executive bonuses. Scum. The government should just try to take it over and nationalize it completely, and then fire the entire executive board.

[CatoMinor]

BRTD, this may be off topic, but your sig caught my eye. I am not defending the GOP here at all, but be honest. You know that during those Reagan and Bush Sr years Congress was Dem controlled, and for most of clinton it was GOP controlled. Partisan hackishness saddens me.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Well, they're not actually suing the government BECAUSE it bailed them out... but you just used  The Atlantic's title, not that they should've used it either.

[retromike22]

BRTD, this may be off topic, but your sig caught my I. I am not defending the GOP here at all, but be honest. You know that during those Reagan and Bush Sr years Congress was Dem controlled, and for most of clinton it was GOP controlled. Partisan hackishness saddens me.

Then how come with GW Bush, with a GOP controlled Congress AND GOP President, did they spent so much? Also with Reagan for his first 6 years he had a GOP Senate and enough conservative Democrats who crossed over.

[CatoMinor]

BRTD, this may be off topic, but your sig caught my I. I am not defending the GOP here at all, but be honest. You know that during those Reagan and Bush Sr years Congress was Dem controlled, and for most of clinton it was GOP controlled. Partisan hackishness saddens me.

Then how come with GW Bush, with a GOP controlled Congress AND GOP President, did they spent so much? Also with Reagan for his first 6 years he had a GOP Senate and enough conservative Democrats who crossed over.

Because both parties spend way too much.

[Indy Texas]

BRTD, this may be off topic, but your sig caught my eye. I am not defending the GOP here at all, but be honest. You know that during those Reagan and Bush Sr years Congress was Dem controlled, and for most of clinton it was GOP controlled. Partisan hackishness saddens me.

Prior to the '90s, party control of Congress was irrelevant. The Democrats had a partisan majority but conservatives had a political majority (Republicans + Boll Weevil Democrats). Tip O'Neill wasn't the one demanding hundreds of millions of dollars for magic laser beams in the sky. Let's do away with the myth that Reagan was a small-government conservative. He just redirected the money from the allegedly endemic Cadillac-driving Welfare Queens to Southern military bases and defense contractors.