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Hydroceph
03/27/09

In reply to AIGers Play World's Tiniest Violins to Ward Off Angry Hordes
What infuriates me the most is that their bonuses are being paid of out of our tax dollars. Given that it's just about tax time, and time for the annual rubbing of my face in the fact that the IRS doesn't recognize my marriage, this makes me extra angry. Mr Hydroceph (the other Mr. Hydroceph), in particular, gets f*cked by the feds--and not in the good way--because he's "single."

These assholes created radioactive financial "instruments" predicated in part on selling mortgages to people who had already demonstrated they couldn't be trusted with pocket change, and when it blew up in a great big mushroom cloud of financial armageddon, expected to be bailed out (socialized risk!) and get their bonuses (private gain!). And they continued to act like nothing had changed. Don't give me that crap about contracts not being renegotiable, or the deposit on those corporate jets non-refundable. You people screwed the pooch, and the rest of us are mad as hell.
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cdmunch
03/27/09

@Hydroceph: Your marriage isn't recognized by the feds? Is it one of those common-law hillbilly things where Pa forced you with a shotgun and said "Make an honest woman outta that hussy," and now you share grain alcohol and firearms, living in a school bus in some compound in the Alleghenies with a dog named Mud?
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Hydroceph
03/27/09

@cdmunch: no, we're two of the gays--hence the "Other Mr. Hydroceph," the first one being yours truly. Our marriage is recognized by the state, but not by the feds. But yours sounds like an interesting anthropological expedition.
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PaisleyPajamas
03/27/09

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Are these idiots holding out hope someone will stuff a big wad of cash in their faces to make them STFU?
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whoneedslight
03/27/09

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It's maddening class warfare... there are a lot of people sympathizing with these folks and still insisting that the entire collapse of the economy is the blame of poor brown people who bought houses THEY KNEW THEY COULDN'T AFFORD! Let the rich get richer....

I feel very content to be employed, driving around in my 12 year-old car and not living in a tent community (yet).
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Hydroceph
03/27/09

@whoneedslight: Preach! I've got a job, a paid-off Honda Civic with 90k miles, and a roof over my head. And these people want more.
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gerbilsoutofexile...is cheap and easy
03/27/09

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My husband gets a quarterly bonus. We don't count it as salary, we count it as a bonus. We use it for things like our son's elementary school tuition ($15,000), or buying a car...and actually live off his salary.

Oh, sorry, did that make too much sense?
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Hydroceph
03/27/09

@gerbilsoutofexile...is cheap and easy: shhhh, you're making sense again, darling. You'll frighten them.
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Cheap Shot
03/27/09

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"So imagine having to pay 5 times your mortgage or rent on your current salary"

Actually I can't imagine that because regularly blow the landlord.
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Wrapitup
03/27/09

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The author of the LJ post apparently "researches & builds 10th C music and instruments". So finally now you know where to go for your urgent lyre, harp and dulcimer needs.
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i'm a bottle
03/27/09

@Wrapitup: That has to be a dead giveaway for everyone at Banque AIG office in London. -- Or is she often confused with Susan, one of the other kayaking wives of the AIG executives, the selfsame spouse who researches and builds Byzantine era musical instruments?

Disclaimer: I think that's a pretty great hobby, by the way.
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NinaHagen
03/27/09

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I mean, there's always Choate...
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NinaHagen
03/27/09

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"My son's school is about $30,000 a year. He cannot actually go to any others, he has to go there."

Is he John Merrick? I mean, honestly...and wow, they are probably paying the salary of ONE TEACHER.
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Kitten_Witawip
03/27/09

@NinaHagen: Jeepers, I guess his son will have to get a job or sell drugs or something instead of transferring to a school he can afford.
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onebadclam
03/27/09

@Kitten_Witawip: Are there no oakum-picking jobs available to their precious little urchin? They live in the land of Dickens, after all.
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howdybeep (runs with monkey wrenches)
03/27/09

@onebadclam: Are there no workhouses?
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onebadclam
03/27/09

@howdybeep (runs with monkey wrenches): "If they would rather die than go there, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
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pandorasmittens
03/27/09

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As my marketing professor crowed, "You can work for hours and it will still be crap, and you still won't deserve that A."
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onebadclam
03/27/09

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"Do you leave in December and disrupt your children's education? Well, not without a very good reason."

I would say being shafted by your employer with an effective pay cut through an uncompensated overseas assignment, spending $30K a year for tuition and paying on a house you can't use are all very good reasons.
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Hydroceph
03/27/09

@onebadclam: well, there you go. that's why you're one of the poors.
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i'm a bottle
03/27/09

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It is a mob -- and I don't think that's a good thing either.

This ought to provide the impetus for both sides -- banker and legislator -- to work together to come to an agreement on a stable pay regimen. I'm thinking the i-bankers might be a little more amenable now to structuring the labor laws toward a reasonable guaranteed salary and away from the unpredictability of "eat what you kill."

The city and state legislators, on the other hand, would benefit from avoiding wild fluctuations in their tax revenues.

I have to admit, however, that I can't sleep for the Schadenfreude.
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econdave
03/27/09

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These people make it sound like working for AIG in London was some kind of enormous hardship. If it was that bad, folks, why did you do it for years and years? You're smart people, I'm sure you could have gotten a job somewhere else if it was truly that onerous.

Or maybe, just maybe, you got a really good deal and made a boatload of money, and then when the company imploded, that's when you call out "no fair!"
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Hydroceph
03/27/09

@econdave: These people make it sound like working for AIG in London was some kind of enormous hardship. If it was that bad, folks, why did you do it for years and years? You're smart people, I'm sure you could have gotten a job somewhere else if it was truly that onerous.

and before their CVs turned toxic.
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everfade
03/27/09

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We thought we had it rough when we had to downgrade to Alberto V05 shampoo! It's nothing compared to the plight of AIGers. Our hair may be cheaply conditioned but we still don't know the pain of 30k private school tuitions.
Damn our lynch mob mentality and the high price of Pantene.
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El Matardillo
03/27/09

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Any tax specific to the AIG bonus money would be an expost facto bill of attainder and therefore unconstitutional. So, fire away, but even a kangaroo court would throw it out.
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JPMarat
03/27/09

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"Geez, sounds risky. What kind of moron would work on a compensation schedule like that? "

That sounds almost as bad as getting paid based on page-views. Oh wai
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