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	<title>Comments on: The Real AIG Controversy</title>
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		<title>By: Wendy</title>
		<link>http://emac.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2009/07/10/the-real-aig-controversy/comment-page-1/#comment-7538</link>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This column is nothing but a smear job on the free market. Ms. MacDonald, where were you when mark-to-market was imposed on AIG and other companies? Where is your opinion piece on the fact that AIG and other companies were brought to the brink of destruction by this government-enforced rule? What, none? Then you have lost the right to complain about tax money going into the financial system.

If you don&#039;t like the fact that AIG and other companies&#039; execs are getting bonuses on the taxpayer dime, then instead of mindlessly bleating about the quality of financial assets, a topic on which you are ignorant, you should have been yelling at the top of your lungs to get accounting rules revoked before the crisis happened and while it was happening. You seem to have a nagging wife mentality, that of an incompetent wife who doesn&#039;t understand why her husband does something and thinks that gives her the moral prerogative to start issuing cease and desist orders.

Don&#039;t think you can get away with grandstanding over the taxpayer&#039;s right to be unassaulted on the one hand while you support dangerous statism in the financial sector on the other.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This column is nothing but a smear job on the free market. Ms. MacDonald, where were you when mark-to-market was imposed on AIG and other companies? Where is your opinion piece on the fact that AIG and other companies were brought to the brink of destruction by this government-enforced rule? What, none? Then you have lost the right to complain about tax money going into the financial system.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t like the fact that AIG and other companies&#8217; execs are getting bonuses on the taxpayer dime, then instead of mindlessly bleating about the quality of financial assets, a topic on which you are ignorant, you should have been yelling at the top of your lungs to get accounting rules revoked before the crisis happened and while it was happening. You seem to have a nagging wife mentality, that of an incompetent wife who doesn&#8217;t understand why her husband does something and thinks that gives her the moral prerogative to start issuing cease and desist orders.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t think you can get away with grandstanding over the taxpayer&#8217;s right to be unassaulted on the one hand while you support dangerous statism in the financial sector on the other.</p>
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		<title>By: reader</title>
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		<dc:creator>reader</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And then there exists Snow White Liz

who is better than anyone to actually publish any comments.

Why even list comments here.

It&#039;s just some anger management therapy for you to say &#039;nope, not gonna publish that one, or that one, or that one&#039;.

Probably makes you feel good to have so much control of public opinion to frankly ? 

discard and disregard ALL comments people place here.

Nunns in America ain&#039;t gonna cut a Pulitzer.

If anything - the gregorian calendar brought by the Nunn&#039;s has sealed us to a fate of expecting nothing on a time line against eternity except waiting for the end of the World and return of Jesus - yeah, THERE is a healthy platform.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And then there exists Snow White Liz</p>
<p>who is better than anyone to actually publish any comments.</p>
<p>Why even list comments here.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s just some anger management therapy for you to say &#8216;nope, not gonna publish that one, or that one, or that one&#8217;.</p>
<p>Probably makes you feel good to have so much control of public opinion to frankly ? </p>
<p>discard and disregard ALL comments people place here.</p>
<p>Nunns in America ain&#8217;t gonna cut a Pulitzer.</p>
<p>If anything &#8211; the gregorian calendar brought by the Nunn&#8217;s has sealed us to a fate of expecting nothing on a time line against eternity except waiting for the end of the World and return of Jesus &#8211; yeah, THERE is a healthy platform.</p>
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		<title>By: Hilayr Smith</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hilayr Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How do we justify the economic privilege enjoyed by bankers and CEOs in general? Why is it acceptable that some of us are so rich and some of us can&#039;t even keep a roof over our head? Are the wealthy simple reaping the rewards of their extraordinary 
productivity, as capitalist fundamentalism would suggest? 

I think the reality is that there is no inherent meritocracy in capitalism. Because it is difficult to compete within a meritocracy, capitalist systems quickly become 
&quot;who-your-parents-are-ocracies&quot;. Americans are suffering because we&#039;re living under an aristocratic system. 

I really don&#039;t think anything will change until a new labor movement gains steam and the powerful among us become genuinely threatened that American workers will, all at once, stop working. That is the only way that their constant accrual of wealth could be halted and halting wealth-accrual is the only thing that will get their attention.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do we justify the economic privilege enjoyed by bankers and CEOs in general? Why is it acceptable that some of us are so rich and some of us can&#8217;t even keep a roof over our head? Are the wealthy simple reaping the rewards of their extraordinary<br />
productivity, as capitalist fundamentalism would suggest? </p>
<p>I think the reality is that there is no inherent meritocracy in capitalism. Because it is difficult to compete within a meritocracy, capitalist systems quickly become<br />
&#8220;who-your-parents-are-ocracies&#8221;. Americans are suffering because we&#8217;re living under an aristocratic system. </p>
<p>I really don&#8217;t think anything will change until a new labor movement gains steam and the powerful among us become genuinely threatened that American workers will, all at once, stop working. That is the only way that their constant accrual of wealth could be halted and halting wealth-accrual is the only thing that will get their attention.</p>
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		<title>By: rose</title>
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		<dc:creator>rose</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How can this be?  Why is this allowed to happen? People are out of work,working for reduced wages, cut of benefits. My workplace has not given me a raise in 2 years and the last raise was 2%. There is something terribly wrong with our system that would allow this to go on, until someone steps up to the plate and says this will not be allowed - our country will never get out of this mess!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How can this be?  Why is this allowed to happen? People are out of work,working for reduced wages, cut of benefits. My workplace has not given me a raise in 2 years and the last raise was 2%. There is something terribly wrong with our system that would allow this to go on, until someone steps up to the plate and says this will not be allowed &#8211; our country will never get out of this mess!</p>
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		<title>By: Mike</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If bonuses are given out for failure, can the American people get a bonus if we refuse/&quot;fail&quot; to pay my taxes?  Imagine the entire population of the United States decided to hire lawyers for that argument?  Ouch.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If bonuses are given out for failure, can the American people get a bonus if we refuse/&#8221;fail&#8221; to pay my taxes?  Imagine the entire population of the United States decided to hire lawyers for that argument?  Ouch.</p>
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