On Saturday a busload of protesters went to AIG executives homes to protest the retention bonuses AIG was contractually obligated to pay some of it's employees.
Now the media is not ignoring the protesters per se, they are giving them plenty of attention. But some how the "journalists" covering this story, and the editors from AP and other media outlets over looked a simple question... "How did these working class families, one who was bemoaning her truck driving husband's unemployment, afford to charter a bus to take them to the executives' homes."
They nicely present the whining and appalling display of entitlement on the part of the protesters, but they forgot to ask exactly how these "poor" people came up with the scratch to rent a bus.
Sounds like some community organizing or more Soros funded "grassroots" organizing going on.
Congress has spent 1.5 trillion since January 21. That is 6060 times the amount of bonuses given to AIG employees. ACORN and community based groups were given $4 billion of that, that is 30 times more than the AIG bonuses. It is roughly half of the amount given to promote STD prevention. (Want to prevent STD's? Don't sleep with strangers! Send me my $200 million,left the AIG people keep the rest.)
Congress has spent 1.5 trillion since January 21. That is 6060 times the amount of bonuses given to AIG employees. ACORN and community based groups were given $4 billion of that, that is 30 times more than the AIG bonuses. It is roughly half of the amount given to promote STD prevention. (Want to prevent STD's? Don't sleep with strangers! Send me my $200 million,left the AIG people keep the rest.)
This whole AIG bonus bull crap is designed for one of two purposes. A wag the dog distraction, trying to get people riled up about a non-issue to ignore the sputtering Obama administration/agenda. Or it is a simple exercise in class warfare to pit the have nots (well, they have enough to rent a bus) against the haves.
The media is helping someone make an issue out of this non issue. And the sheeple are buying it. The next question to ask is who is funding it and whose agenda is it serving.
ADDDED: there were photographs taken by the media clearly displaying ACORN logos on thier banners but the media chose not to run them lest the sponsor of this protest get out. Why censor this fact?
FAIRFIELD, Conn. – A busload of activists representing working- and middle-class families paid visits Saturday to the lavish homes of American International Group executives to protest the tens of millions of dollars in bonuses awarded by the struggling insurance company after it received a massive federal bailout.
About 40 protesters sought to urge AIG executives who received a portion of the $165 million in bonuses to do more to help families.
"We think $165 million could be used in a more appropriate way to keep people in their homes, create more jobs and health care," said Emeline Bravo-Blackport, a gardener.
She marveled at AIG executive James Haas' colonial house, which has stunning views of a golf course and the Long Island Sound. The Fairfield house is "another part of the world" from her life in nearby Bridgeport, which flirted with bankruptcy in the 1990s and still struggles with foreclosures and unemployment."
"Lord, I wonder what it's like to live in a house that size," she said.
Another protester, Claire Jeffery, of Bloomfield, said she's on the verge of foreclosure. She works as a housekeeper; her husband, a truck driver, can't find work.
"I love my home," she said. "I really want people to help us."
News of the bonuses last week ignited a firestorm of controversy and even death threats against AIG employees. The company, which is based in New York, has received $182.5 billion in federal aid and now is about 80 percent government-owned, while the national housing and job markets have collapsed as the country spirals into a crippling recession.
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