Comments on: Seeing millions, missing billions

by: John

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:29:19 +0000

Those references are lost on me - I ain’t a proud Triangle resident. And besides, thanks to Gearino’s astute legal representation, I’m no longer allowed within the borders of the Tarheel State.

Relax, In the Arena, I’m relatively harmless. And all-in-all, things coulda been worse. Gearino let me keep the pajamas.

by: InTheArena

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:53:19 +0000

I’m um, I uh, well, “out its ass”, Really? I didn’t think we allowed anything like that in Fuquay. I hope you at least walked over to DD and bought him some donughts.

by: John

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:20:32 +0000

I’m triscadecaphobic.

Now there’s 14 comments.

by: John

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:04:34 +0000

Mikey,
We’re all mad (angry - not deranged) over our current, shared predicament. Seems like our politics drive where we direct our anger.

In the Arena,
I beg your pardon, but my WAW drivel is created completely on my own time. Call me a drivel-producer if you must, but a dishonest drivel-producer is going too far. I demand satisfaction. If my posts are drivel, then yours are…poppycock!

And I suppose you could be making a point that’s going way over my head, but I think you may have me confused with another John. Happens all the time. It’s the most popular name in the world you know.

I’m the John who Gearino has a restraining order against.

Talk about over-reacting. He comes home from a weekend trip and finds me asleep in his bedroom. It’s quite impressive. He’s got a fountain in there - it’s a statue of Cupid with water squirtin’ out of his ass - and mirrors on the ceiling. So anyway, Danny-boy gets a load of me and goes ballistic. “Who the hell are you?” “How’ed you get in my house?” “Are those MY pajamas you’re wearing?”

BAM! - instant restraining order.

I’m that John.

by: Chappy

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:06:17 +0000

One small complaint: What Liddy calls a “retention bonus” — getting a book wound down, closed out, to the company’s satisfaction, then we pay — happens to be almost the exact definition of a performance bonus.

But if Liddy wants to change the syntax so that the media and public are no longer bandying about the term “performance bonus” — OK, I’m fine with that. Let’s move on and find out what went wrong. Besides Lehman Bros. collapsing.

by: Chappy

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:16:06 +0000

OK, proud to say the guy I voted for, Brad Miller, just rocked it. Liddy says there are multiple investigations under way — however, he thought the question pertained to current, not former, AIG employees/execs.

by: Chappy

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:54:46 +0000

So here’s what I’m getting: The people who received the retention bonuses — some of whom are offering to give it back — are the people brought in to fix the FP (financial products?) unit. The bad guys — the ones who engaged in risky credit default swaps, and ruined the company that we’re now bailing out — are gone, either having been fired or quit.

So: how do we go get the bad guys? And put ‘em in the same jail as Bernie Madoff?

Because Liddy read some of the death threats the company has received. Who would be so despicable as to write that AIG execs should be strangled with piano wire?

Somebody who’s lost their job, their home and have moved their family into an RV, that’s who.

by: Chappy

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:21:27 +0000

Ackerman. He’s the most straight-shooting, no-nonsense guy I’ve seen this afternoon.

by: Chappy

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:17:40 +0000

Hope I don’t regret saying this (watching the sub. meeting on another tab) but it looks like Liddy’s on the up and up. Too bad he didn’t talk to journalists before now… it would have calmed down the angry hornet’s nest of Americans he referred to.

That Rep. from New York is the real hero here though. Mark Somebody? He put it plainly: “Give the money back.”

by: mikey

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:45:40 +0000

John..Thanks for the compliment, I think. I am not a writer but I did sleep at the University of Georgia J School for a year or two. I am sorry John but I DO NOT hold a lot of hatred for the banks and the financial companies being bailed out.
The root of all of this trouble is the fact that they were forced to make loans to people that could not pay. After that imploded the economy, the government starts mortgaging our kids’ and grandkids’ future by throwing good money after bad. BTW…Merrill Lynch (and many others) paid millions of dollars in bonuses, much more than AIG. Is the government going to root out and destroy ALL of these capitalist pigs? It’s all a distraction. Look behind the scenes. I sound like a conspiracy nut I know but it stinks and it really makes me mad.