AIG to pay $165 million in bonuses this year

[Prince Cobra]

Well, this might have been avoided if a contract has been concluded with the recipients before the bail out... Two ideas

1) The bureacracy failed to notice it.

2) The government was more interested than the upper managers to keep the company. As far as I can remember, the upper managers of Lehman Brothers were not quite poor when the company went bankrupt...

Anyway, in the both cases the law shall be abided and the money paid. Government has not put any additional conditions on this aspect therefore it has agreed on this. As I already said somehwhere, life is unfair.

Yes, it is amoral (you know, the recipients can always decline the money), it is unfair (rich getting richer) but it is a fact. Reality.