http://sexandpolitics.today.com/2009/03/17/false-outrage-please-stop-pretending-like-you-didnt-know-what-aig-was-doing-with-the-money/ Because They Go Together Like Peanut Butter and Jelly Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:27:53 +0000 http://www.today.com/version-2.3.1 http://sexandpolitics.today.com/2009/03/17/false-outrage-please-stop-pretending-like-you-didnt-know-what-aig-was-doing-with-the-money/#comment-147 dsent Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:52:28 +0000 http://sexandpolitics.today.com/2009/03/17/false-outrage-please-stop-pretending-like-you-didnt-know-what-aig-was-doing-with-the-money/#comment-147 I think we need to open our minds to new ways of thinking about essential industry, nationalization is so unpopular because it’s what people call 'government control'. Well, if we actually had a democracy then what we would be talking about wouldn’t be called nationalization but democratization of a previously privately held corporation to a now publicly owned and democratically operated industry. I know language such as that is not welcome in the American lexicon. But desperate times call for rational measures. I think we need to open our minds to new ways of thinking about essential industry, nationalization is so unpopular because it’s what people call ‘government control’. Well, if we actually had a democracy then what we would be talking about wouldn’t be called nationalization but democratization of a previously privately held corporation to a now publicly owned and democratically operated industry. I know language such as that is not welcome in the American lexicon. But desperate times call for rational measures.

]]> http://sexandpolitics.today.com/2009/03/17/false-outrage-please-stop-pretending-like-you-didnt-know-what-aig-was-doing-with-the-money/#comment-146 skwguitar Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:18:18 +0000 http://sexandpolitics.today.com/2009/03/17/false-outrage-please-stop-pretending-like-you-didnt-know-what-aig-was-doing-with-the-money/#comment-146 Also, the outrage over these bonuses is good and dandy and all - but what about the talk about how AIG spent our money we gave them. They essentially booked billions of dollars overseas, to bail out other global banks. This was announced the same day as the bonuses were, but we only hear about the bonuses in the MSM. Also, the outrage over these bonuses is good and dandy and all - but what about the talk about how AIG spent our money we gave them. They essentially booked billions of dollars overseas, to bail out other global banks. This was announced the same day as the bonuses were, but we only hear about the bonuses in the MSM.

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