This is both an issue of morality and ethics. Upon deciding to offer bail-out funds to AIG, the government should have done a thorough job by finding out what latent debts still existed via such huge bonuses embedded in contracts. They didnt do that, now you want the company not to honour those contracts? Morally and emotionally, taking such bonuses are outrageous but on contractual and legal terms,if those bonuses where in their contracts and the government did not put clauses at the outset when offering the funds to prevent payment of such then you can't hold the CEO ransom for paying those bonuses

HELLO EVERY ONE.

THIS MONEY WAS TO BAILOUT THE AIG, THE AIG SHAULD NOT INVOLVE IT WITH OTHERS, BECOUSE THIS MONEY IS TAXPAYERS NOT A PROFIT MADE BY AIG. IT IS OUT RAGES AS THEY SAID, AIG MADE A BIG MISTAKE BY USING THE BAILOUT MONEY TO BE PROFITS FOR THIER EMPLYEE AND OTHERS. IF AS THEY SAID IT WAS FOR PREVIOUS CONTRACTS, THEY SHOULD HAVE WAIT TO MAKE PROFITS THEN PAY BACK LATE CONTRACTS, BUT INSTED THEY CARELESLY USED THE BAILOUT MONEY WITHOUT THINKING OF THE PRESINET CRISES, AND GIVE IT TO OTHERS.

THIS IS REALLY FUNNY SITUATION.

BYE AND TAKE CARE, BEST REGARD TO YOU&CNN.

Since the American people are now the "owners", the congress could sue AIG. All the people having to live out of tents are tired of waiting. Enough is Enough.

After all the "FAT CATS/CEO'S " GET DONE with their prision time they could also live in tents. Just a tent and a bedroll for as long as it takes for them to do community service at a homeless shelter on the food line.

i THOUGHT SELFISH MEN ONLY EXISTED IN AFRICA OR SHOULD I SAY NIGERIA.
HOW CAN CEOs (WHO ASKED FOR GOVT BAILOUT FUND WHICH WAS MEANT TO KEEP THEM FROM FAILING AND ALSO BRING BACK LAID-OFF JOBS) USE BAILOUT FINDS FRO THEIR BONUSES? IT IS SIMPLY SHEER WICKEDNESS! THEY SHOULD REFUND THAT MONEY!

OSI G
NIGERIA

These Bonus where or are based on imoral motives and lack of professionalism in some of our American trained Chief excutives,Finance managers,Auditors etc. In the enviroment that exists currently every Ceo that practices profesional code of ethics would look at the options to that contract before deciding to award employees for non – perfomance. I personally have a lot of respect for the americans but am disppointed by their lack of professionalism. Ceo's trained in Europe are widely known to uphold standards as compared to their collegues in America. Shame on AIG employees you just shown us the level of your poor mgt and Training.

Newton
Lusaka. Zambia

Capitol Hill and Wall Street don't care about the working people, middle class. Why should they!!! They don't associate with people like us. All they care about is making themselves richer and the people they know richer. Greed, greed and more greed. Now that they are getting that money back from AIG, spread the wealth, give to the people that make the difference, US. The watress that serves them dinner, the clerk who sacks their groceries, the nurse who takes their temperature, the teacher who teaches their children, and so on.
If the American people are paying taxes on all this money we are giving Wall Street and the banks, then we should be able to claim a percentage of that on our taxes each year, right! Sounds good to me!!
Thanks
Debbie, Ks