Reply #3: blame Bush:

[amborin]

but, really, blame no one

b/c if anyone has bothered to read the newspapers for the past year, they'd know that it's
impossible NOT To bail out AIG and the retention bonuses, as ghastly as they are, were part of
the legal payment contract....

and once we start breaking legal contracts, we lose the rule of law

we become russia, where there is still no honoring of legal contracts