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Dave
posted: 10/8/2008 at 7:55 PM
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/1007083aig1.html

Nice timing for the old company outing. Your taxpayer dollars hard at work.
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posted: 10/8/2008 at 8:05 PM
running a country into the ground is hard work and builds up your appetite Black eye
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posted: 10/8/2008 at 11:54 PM
"AIG hits up Fed for more money: Three weeks after an $85 billion bailout, AIG is turning to the New York Fed for additional funding."

http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/08/news/companies/aig/?postversion=2008100818

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CPT Curmudgeon
posted: 10/8/2008 at 11:57 PM
A) This trip was planned a year ago.

B) The trip is a perk given to top sales people. It is a perk.

C) The attendees, and the money for it, came from a branch of AIG that is not getting bailed out, because it was making money.

D) The trip would have occurred regardless of the bailout.
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posted: 10/9/2008 at 12:04 AM
Quote from Scout7 on 10/8/2008 at 11:57 PM:
A) This trip was planned a year ago.

B) The trip is a perk given to top sales people. It is a perk.

C) The attendees, and the money for it, came from a branch of AIG that is not getting bailed out, because it was making money.

D) The trip would have occurred regardless of the bailout.


Exactly none of these things make me feel any better.

Scout7
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CPT Curmudgeon
posted: 10/9/2008 at 12:06 AM
Then I can't help you.

Of course, I wasn't posting to make people feel better. Just delay the inevitable slide downwards this thread will take.
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Dave
posted: 10/9/2008 at 1:07 AM
What really pissed me off was that the spa treatments included VO2Max testing.

There, that should do it.
I ran a mile and I liked it, liked it, liked it.

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posted: 10/9/2008 at 1:13 AM
Quote from Scout7 on 10/8/2008 at 11:57 PM:
A) This trip was planned a year ago.

B) The trip is a perk given to top sales people. It is a perk.

C) The attendees, and the money for it, came from a branch of AIG that is not getting bailed out, because it was making money.

D) The trip would have occurred regardless of the bailout.


Just glad I am not a stockholder! Cool
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posted: 10/9/2008 at 1:55 AM
Quote from runnerclay on 10/9/2008 at 1:13 AM:
Just glad I am not a stockholder! Cool


You are... the government your tax dollars funds now has an 80% stake in company. AIG fails completely and the government will collect that $85 billion they loaned them from you instead of selling off pieces of AIG.
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LSD King
posted: 10/9/2008 at 10:18 AM
Quote from Scout7 on 10/8/2008 at 11:57 PM:
A) This trip was planned a year ago.

B) The trip is a perk given to top sales people. It is a perk.

C) The attendees, and the money for it, came from a branch of AIG that is not getting bailed out, because it was making money.

D) The trip would have occurred regardless of the bailout.


When the company I work for hits tough times, nobody gets to go anywhere anytime. But.....I guess the government isn't bailing us out. We have turned our company around this year without the government. Think how much easier it would be if we could all count on the government to help us when we're stupid!!
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posted: 10/9/2008 at 12:06 PM
Quote from Scout7 on 10/9/2008 at 12:06 AM:
Then I can't help you.

Of course, I wasn't posting to make people feel better. Just delay the inevitable slide downwards this thread will take.


You could try to make me feel better. I'm not that hard to please. If you think that delaying inevitable downward slides on message boards is an easier task, then you are a true masochist.

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