All hail AIG the “American International God”.  I live to serve you.  My life and my children’s future is in your beneficent all-knowing hands.  I beseech you to grant me favor in my job and give me the strength to pay ever higher taxes in support of your temples of business.  I do this in abject reverence of your timeless and immortal love for me.

All hail MJ Sullivan (pbuh)

Sure must be hard to “make a profit” when you’re spotted a few BILLION to start with.

So what has AIG and similar financial outfits learned from all this? Very simple. LOSE lots and lots of money every quarter, continue to pay HUGE bonuses to those in charge of directing those losses, and threaten to go bankrupt and ruin tens of thousands of lives when the shit hits the fan. The government will hand over what you need to remain in business - “business as usual - you won’t even have to cancel the bonuses.”

Of course, AIG & the Feds are now one and the same. Left & right pockets of the same charade - a monumental collusion and ripoff. I’m at a loss for words to adequately describe my rage and disgust. Those fat cats sitting in their million dollar boardrooms designing these THEFTS should all be in jail for the rest of their lives.

But they won’t be. For some reason that completely escapes me those in our governments think they’re doing us a favor by joining in with these extortionists by paying them off with our money.

That is why I do not pay one cent in taxes any more. I woke up one morning and it dawned on me that I was being used by my own government as a cash cow and nothing more. I remember my father admonishing me with “heck, son, the more you pay in tax the more you’re earning for yourself!”

Well, dad, while that might be technically true, I do not consider spending 100% of my time and effort to collect 50% or less of the reward as a fair deal. I don’t really need that extra money so why should I not use the extra time to do what I bloody well want to do?

From that day, I have refused to earn enough money to put me in a bracket they can tax. Until the government asks me how I’d like them to “invest” MY MONEY, they can simply do without it. If anyone’s going to WASTE MY MONEY, it’s going to be ME.

What profits. What turn around. AIG got almost two hundred billion dollars from the treasury. Did they return all and made some more?? Of course not. The same logic apply to the so called profits of the banks.
Please, no accounting gemmicks nor silly jokes??!!