AIG guy resigns via NYT op-ed, makes a compelling case for why he’s being screwed by his bosses and the pols, when he’s innocent of everything in this horrible mess, and he’s just a regular guy from a humble background, an American Dream come true who is being shafted…
…Not to get all class warfare about it, but that guy lives on a different planet than I do. $742,006.40 after taxes sounds about like about what I made over about 15 years of 12 hour days plus getting shot at and yelled at a lot in the service of the Boston Herald, but the old man always told me I should be an accountant, and I didn’t pay any attention, so I’m not complaining…
…Any financial brainiacs out there willing to work for something less than two million bucks? Never mind Mom, Apple Pie and the American way, how about $1 million? I bet we can fly in a planeload of financial brainiacs from Bangalore at a fraction of Jake’s price. Outsourcing Wall Street to India. That’d get their attention.
Certainly the Indians couldn’t do it any worse…and if they do end up screwing the pooch, it will cost us a lot less. Heck, for some of the fine citizens of Kolkata, I bet $10,000.00 sounds like a lot of money. There’s the additional poetic justice in the fact that these corporate bosses have been exploiting India’s cheap labor for years – so why shouldn’t we, the people, do it, too?
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