So they need to pay bonuses to retain good employees. That's the argument, anyway.

But the numbers show they they gave huge bonuses to 73 of their worst employees. Further, these bonuses failed to retain employees, since "eleven of those who received 'retention' bonuses of $1 million or more are no longer working at A.I.G."

There's nothing about any of this that makes a damned bit of sense. Anyone else starting to suspect that "Titan of finance" and "complete moron" are synonymous?

I don't know, their investments in Dodd and Obama seem to have paid off nicely.

But then there are companies like Blackwater with their hooks in Bush and Cheney. Funny, they changed their name to Xe, but you never see any stories about them going bankrupt.

War makers and defense contractors have always benefited from the Republicans even when the rest of the country goes into the shitter.

Go figure that one out n2.