AIG CEO Says Getting Yelled At On Blogs For Obscene Bonuses Is Just Like Getting Hanged From A Tree

[unhappycamper]

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/09/24-2



AIG CEO Says Getting Yelled At On Blogs For Obscene Bonuses Is Just Like Getting Hanged From A Tree By Your Neck Till You're Dead
by Abby Zimet
09.24.13 - 3:56 PM

Fitzgerald and Hemingway were both right. Rich people, and most notably CEOs of rapacious companies, are different from us: They have not just more money, but more arrogance, grandiosity, moral blindness and self-delusion. Thus do we have Robert Benmosche, the CEO who took over AIG after it helped crash the global economy and then got bailed out by $700 billion from taxpayers, telling the Wall Street Journal that the uproar over insane bonuses to executives despite their utter incompetence was "just as bad and just as wrong" as lynching blacks in the South, and why were all those people "out there with their pitchforks and their hangman nooses" calling them bad names which is pretty much the same as being brutally murdered. Benmosche's paranoid idiocy comes just as several other poor victimized CEOs have whined about how public anger at their privilege is just sour grapes and people should just suck it up and besides it's just like Nazi Germany, which you can really sort of see, except, you know, for the concentration camps. The kicker: The WSJ profile on the oblivious Benmosche was titled, "At AIG, Benmosche Steers a Steady Course...Focuses on Core Mission," with the lynching analogy cut from the main story and buried in a later blog post, neither of which mentions that actually not only did he not get lynched, but he didn't save the insurance giant - we the people did, and still wish we didn't.





Robert Benmosche, greedy CEO.

[MADem]

1. You should post a GRAPHIC WARNING re: that photo.

Personally, I think COMMON DREAMS laid a big egg using that picture as an illustration.

I realize the CEOs ARE greedy and they did use inappropriate imagery to describe their reaction to criticism, but two wrongs don't make a right.

Those are people at the end of those ropes.

[madrchsod]

2. warning! graphic picture!

this guy is a banker....

[alc]

3. many words and terms are losing meaning

Racism, racist, lynching, human right's violation. When I was growing up (60s/70s), it meant something significant when these terms were used. These days it may be something significant, or it may be that someone disagrees with Obama's economic policy (an obvious racist) or a party doesn't want people to get Obama-phones (a human right's violation to deny them) or people complain about bonuses (a lynching).

[pa28]

4. Also the very same guy who thinks we should all be working until "70 or 80"

Because Social Security costs too much. I'm getting really really tired of scumbag plutocrats.

[denverbill]

5. I don't give a shit about your obscene bonuses. I give a shit about stealing taxpayer's money.

What a worthless turd of a human being. You fail miserably in your job, cost your company billions of dollars, have to come begging to the government for a bailout, then hand yourself a bonus. You should have been fired and lost everything you owned to pay back the money you lost for your miserable failure and the damage you did to the world's economy.

[Agony]

6. same guy who said “I believe 'too big to fail' has been solved”

sociopath.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/22/robert-benmosche-too-big-to-fail_n_3972297.html

[Doctor_J]

7. well let's string a few up and see

Maybe he's right