Outrage over AIG bonuses is a ruse

I can't help rolling my eyes when I hear sound bytes of legislators bickering and fomenting over the "outrageous" bonuses paid to AIG execs after AIG received huge amounts of taxpayer money.   I love this quote from Tom McGuire in his JustOneMinute blog:"bashing highly paid Wall Street financiers peddling products no one understands is a lot more fun than bashing a bunch of collateral clerks doing something or other about which no one cares."In the words of Armed Liberal, "Fewer pitchforks, more calculators please."