It really doesn’t matter who deserved to go on this junket & how far in advance this was planned. It just sends another inappropriate message about how arrogant the insurance business is! I am glad I didn’t know they were down the street…

What is going to be done to hold the executives of these companies that drove the companies in the ground and laughed at Congress and the American people for being so dumb as to give them a bailout? I am watching all my savings and investments go down the drain. I saved over a 37 year career for retirement. What I am suppose to do? Who will make me whole again? I don’t think it is too much to ask for someone to be held responsible and to recoup the funds they stole. While they are taking trips to hotels that wouldn’t even allow me to cross their doorstep. I watched some of the testimony in front of Mr. Waxman’s committee and their arrogance was just unbelievable. The people of America deserve better! These executives should be sued by the American people and the Federal government and all of their wealth should be stripped away. Let them live in a $200,000 house.14 million dollar mansions, art collections etc. It is abusive! Their pay packages should be confiscated, their houses sold, their art collection sold to a museum where we can all enjoy them and let them figure out how best to go forward. I am just so sick of all this mess and the hand slaps given to thieves, no accountability, no nothing. They should all go to jail! I have worked, brought houses, sold houses, saved, paid my bills all my life and this is what I get for trying to be an upstanding citizen?

Mr. Waxman and Mr. Cummings need only look in the mirror to see who’s responsible.

On the Wall Street Journal op-ed piece today, Murdoch stated through his mouthpiece, that what we need is low taxes (how low ?) and more skilled immigrant workers( to steal jobs from Americans). How much Rupert?

This behaviour is exactly the reason why the American taxpayer was very timid supporting the bailout initiatives.  While the middle class is fighting to survive amidst health insurance increases (PacifiCare in Colorado increased the rate 36% for small business groups - outrageous), credit limitations, increased food prices (soup and casserole is now the main course in my house), dropping FICA scores which has a domino effect on car insurance rates, etc; the continuing drop in home values which disqualifies anyone (even with a good and/or excellent FICA score) who’s trying to refinance.  People who paid 20% down are now at a 100% thanks to the high foreclosure rate. 

I wonder if my bank would take me to a resort and discuss my bankruptcy proceedings while I have a facial at their expense.

Their is too much of the “ME” syndrome in America starting at the family level all the way to the Corporation- and Government levels.

The organizers should perform community service in poverty areas. For how long? Say until they have met the amount they wasted at minimum wage.

So someone thought this would be different?

This is typical behavior for the homoupperclassasour when it trouble, go on vacation.

I have to laugh about the outrage here, think of the good side, at least they spent our money in the USA, and perhaps some of this money will help the St. Regis wait-staff, parking lot attendents, and the janitors who will clean up their puke.

It’s called “trickle down” (or tinkled on if you prefer)

Strange, when you watch the video of congress blasting the AIG executives you get an odd feeling of discontinuity.  Cummings, Waxman and Maloney, the most vocal detractors, all voted for the bailout bill less than a week ago.  The logic escapes me here - they voted 700 billion into the hands of known liars and frauds and then when those same people turn around and do, with taxpayer money, what they’ve been doing with shareholder money for years everyone is up in arms.  This scenario is so old they’ve written proverbs about it but here we are indignant that these “executives” and their massive senses of entitlement (second only to their massive fraudulent behavior) have set to work fleecing a new set of marks.  Sad.

These people and most certainly this class of business people should be investigated their assests should be frozen until we can decide just how much of their money was stolen by manipulation and corruption of our government and regulatory agencies.

They should be made to pay.

I am glad, Lawmakers are outraged, they ought tobe. But they also forgot when they point a finger at somebody, rest of the fingers are pointing back to them. How about their lavish health insurance at taxpayers’ cost when millions are uninsured? How about top government employees doing the same thing when ordinary American couldnot go to vacation because of jobloss? How about their children going to best schools and colleges when ordinary citizen can’t afford higher tutions in colleges? CAN THEY ANSWER THIS?

AIG is currently my Auto Ins company . . . . I will most definitely be changing my Insurance company!