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Related: About this forumJon Stewart blasts ex-AIG chief: ‘Go f*ck yourself’ for crying over $184 billion bailout
Hello, Mr. Greenberg, Stewart said, impersonating a loan officer. Youve asked us for $184.6 billion for 90 percent of your company, which is only worth $15 billion go f*ck yourself.
Stewart pointed out that, while the U.S. paid more than 1,000 percent of AIGs market value at the time of the bailout, Greenberg filed a lawsuit painting himself as a victim of government extortion.
Youre angry that they wouldnt lend to you at less than 14 percent, Stewart said. Yeah, we hate it, too, only we call it having a credit card. And we dont sue over those rates because we cant.
As a rule, Stewart said, extortionists and kidnappers try to extract money from their victims not take their dog, force them to accept a large cash payment and then return the dog anyway. He also shot down Greenbergs claim that AIGs bailout terms were less favorable than those offered to banks like Citigroup and Morgan Stanley.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/jon-stewart-blasts-ex-aig-chief-go-fck-yourself-for-crying-over-184-billion-bailout/
blackspade
(10,056 posts)K&R
Dustlawyer
(10,489 posts)whathehell
(28,941 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Paladin
(28,173 posts)supercats
(429 posts)I still can't believe the nerve of these assholes! These guys have no shame. There is nothing you can do to them to make them feel any compassion for people that aren't as rich as them. Just for saying what he said he should be water boarded, repeatedly, in public.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)My boss is "old school" (his words): prefers to think welfare queens and other moochers have tanked the economy. Goes without saying that he's racist, homophobic, fundamentalist, AND Republican. He fancies himself of the same ilk as the uber wealthy criminals who've usurped our media, our politics AND our global economy--only he views them as heroes.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)I met a guy once who owned a lumberyard who believed he was part of the 1% because FOX "News" told him to total everything he had and if it comes to a million, well, you are who the Dems want to tax.
These types can't visualize the idle rich who make more in an hour than they make in a year.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)They are universally Republican and in general the kind of people I would watch burn to death rather than urinate on.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)He thinks his meager 'estate' compares to those of the bazillionaires who've usurped our media, our politics, AND our global economy.
I've scotched his rants, however. When he was full out dissing 'welfare frauds' (his code words for people whose skin isn't pale like his), I did research and informed him that -- using the HIGHEST figure I could find for annual welfare fraud (and I didn't separate out the corporate welfare fraud that is the BIGGEST part of that pie), and the LOWEST figure I could find for how much the Wall Street Criminals cost taxpayers in 2008, I discovered that it would take over FIVE HUNDRED YEARS for welfare fraud to cost us as much as the Wall Street Fraudsters cost us. He hasn't ranted in front of me since.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Even places that were paid for.
All to keep some bastard on a golf course from seeing any effect on his wealth.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)make more in a MINUTE than he makes in a year.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Fast forward to 2014 and the guys who made a fortune on Iraq now WHINE that Obama doesn't love them as much as they deserve.
LuckyLib
(6,812 posts)Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Because that is the right word for Mr. Greenberg.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(106,789 posts)I wonder if there's anyone out there who agrees with Greenberg's position? Maybe his attorney but he's being paid to.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)That is all.