Originally Posted by Darkland

Man... People's reading comprehension skills suck! No wonder the rest of the world thinks the US is filled with a bunch of idiots. No where in that article does it say they took that money from the bailout, unless there was a bailout in 2007 no one heard about.

At any rate, AIG proved to the country what some of these banks were going to do with the bailout money. I think it is funny how we were so quick to shore up these crooked banks as fast as we could but when the auto industry, an economic stimulus, needed some help they were shut out. Talk about ass backwards, but what can you expect from the US these day.