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Harry Reid's Mad at AIG, But Let's Do a Little Substituting Here...

No, we're not big fans of Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), perhaps the biggets milquetoast fairies in the Senate, but we're not particularly attacking him this post. He's just the one who said it. Reid had a press conference where he viewed his displeasure with the word that AIG is planning on paying out almost $500 million to it's executives for employee retention. We don't know how many employees this package would be spread out over - ten? five thousand? More? It's all dependent.....

Here's the little bit of irony that Reid had to say about it.........

“As ordinary families struggle to make ends meet in this dramatic economic crisis, AIG’s management nevertheless asks that taxpayer dollars subsidize the firm’s employee-retention plan,” Reid stated. “The $500 million plan would benefit the very AIG executives who led the firm to the brink of collapse. To reward executives with exorbitant paydays after poor performance, and to do so even indirectly with taxpayer dollars, strikes most Americans as fundamentally unfair and a misuse of their money.”

Now, here's the game we want you to play... Take every place that Reid used the words 'AIG', 'Management' or 'Executives', and substitute 'Congress'..... It says basically the same thing, but it does ring true itself as well, don't you think? Notice, we did not say "Democrats' or 'Republicans', just Congress.......

Poor Performance. Outrage. Rewarding those who brought us to the brink of collapse. Subsidizing bad plans. Misuse of taxpayers' money. They to sit on The Hill and pass judgement at everyone else, but Reid and all of Congress need to understand that we are NOT STUPID. We know that they played a part in this mess as well, and we will not be very forgiving in the next few years if they don't fix it......

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