However, since the govt, in its finite wisdom, decided to bail the place out, they told the employees that if they would stay and help try to fix things, and perhaps salvage their future with the company, they could (imagine this!) get an actual paycheck at the end of it.

Then, of course, the selfsame govt decided to bring the remaining employees up for a public flogging. After that kind of treatment, I’m surprised all of them don’t quit and, by doing so, take down AIG (and your tax money).

and don’t worry about that Rahm Emanuel thing. he’s with the guy who wants to shut down the gitmo detentions. he’s probably among the 99.99999 of the world who avoids reading WAW without breaking a sweat. hell, he probably don’t even know who you are.

it’s nice that us elitists can disagree.

More than anything, I’m a reflexive contrarian. My mother’s people were hill folk from the Georgia mountains. There’s a healthy strain of their Appalachian cantankerousness in me. If you’re fer it, I’m agin it.

It’s the wretched excess of Wall Street that chaps the collective butt of a big part of Main Street. Compensate as you please, but do it on your own dime, not mine.

In my humble opinion, your perspective on life (as shared in WAW) tends to fall toward the favored few in society. Nothing wrong with that - that’s a sincere evaluation on my part too - not like when I told you there was nothing wrong with wearing Speedos at the beach - Dan, come on. Act your age man. I still feel bad for not levelling with you about that.

Maybe you’re an elitist in spirit if not in a material sense.

I consider myself lucky to have found WAW. CAn’t take credit for the discovery though. Most of my internet safaris started with webistes that began with a search string that included the words “hot” or “nude”.

Either way I can tell you that it’s definitely off my normal, beaten path.

Maybe if you had like, Hooter’s ads on your main page, you’d attract more jamokes just like me.

You, too, since you visit here often. Welcome to the club.

And to extend your analogy — not only did you, the drywaller, not get paid even though you had nothing to do with the disastrous fire, you were also publicly vilified and the government sought to impose a punitive tax on you.

Yet this “just makes too much sense” to you.

Boy. How can two elitists like you and me see things so differently?

I can sympathize with DeSantis’ situation, but how different is it from anybody else who’s unwittingly involved in an unholy alliance?

If I’m doin’ the drywall on a new house, and the electrician fouls up the wiring and the house burns down and the builder who hired both of us has got no insurance, then I don’t get paid.

As we’ve all heard ad nauseum, AIG was fulfilling their bonus obligations to these folks with taxpayer money. Something just ain’t Kosher about that.

Sometimes “popular sentiment” just makes too much sense for you elitists.