"Barack Obama's lack of leadership in a down economy has now hit crisis proportions, as his claimed inability to block millions of dollars in bonuses for executives of bailout recipient AIG has caused even his supporters to turn on him," Bob Owens writes in a blog at www.pajamasmedia.com.
"But while the ire of Congress and the media focus are on the $165 million that AIG paid out in bonuses to their executives, the president is hoping you won't notice the $100 billion in taxpayer bailout dollars that AIG paid out to other banks, including $58 billion to foreign banks and $36 billion given to French and German banks alone. ...
"And of course, the re-distributor-in-chief hopes you won't notice where much of the rest of the AIG bailout cash is being spent.
"While $58 billion of your tax dollars - or more accurately, your children's tax dollars - are being used to pay foreign banks, a substantial portion of that money ($43.5 billion) is being used to pay American banks, including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wachovia, Morgan Stanley, AIG International, and JP Morgan," which ranked among Mr. Obama's top campaign contributors. |
