Out here in the pasture, we do not let the fox (our elected officials) guard the hen house door.

I do not understand the turmoil over AIG. AIG did what companies do, they made money. Incapable of doing it in the market place, they turned to another source, the elected members of the government of the US. Not the tax payers, the elected officials. Remember that group, write their names down, keep the names handy.  They are the ones that AIG, GM, UAW (all of those bigbigbigger than....) provided funds for election and reelection. I remember an Open Government promise but that is dead on the vine for now.  No one in the administration will discuss who provided money for elections.  

Now pay close attention, take notes.  Now they (our elected officials) are advertising that the tax payers now own the company, they have not provided anyone with guidance on how to "Vote Your Shares", they do not want you to know.  They are advertising that they may withhold any future grafts of money.  This will not punish the exec, nor the elected officials, it will punish the owners of the company. Maybe that is why they are advertising the "tax payers own the company".  Now the elected officials are all saying "yes, I voted on the bill, but I never read it".  I have heard hundreds of times "that is what we need to look at". No,No,No, what we need to look at is why our elected officials "failed to look at"all these things when they should have. Instead they set the frame work for not looking, "we must act immediately or the end of the world is upon us", well they did act immediately and acted in secrecy and the only difference is that AIG is a lot richer, thanks to our elected officials.

AIG exec's have turned the corner with their business. Instead of a more effective business, they have a relatively more profitable business, thanks to a rich uncle. They feel and I agree that they should be rewarded for finding this rich uncle. I feel that the employees of the rich uncle, that being the elected officials, should pay. I have asked my elected officials that supported this give away program to resign and I have praised the ones who fought against the give away. I strongly recommend that we all determine who supported this and ask them to resign. Then work towards never providing them the chance to do it again. However, they will do it again, and again, and again. All under the guise of "the other option is unacceptable".

The true issue facing this country: how do we address our elected government acting in secret, acting with intent to defraud, acting to repay their supporters. It will not be easy. We do not need the people that did so much to create this situation, to have control of getting us out of their situation. Out here in the pasture, we do not let the fox (our elected officials) guard the hen house door.