Oh, the whining about ex post facto blah blah blah in re AIG and other bailees; some potentates even suggest AIG execs DO deserve bonuses because they WERE demonstrating excellence. And since nobody mentions words like "embezzlement" or "fraud in the factum or procurement", we must assume no official wants to do more than "embarrass" help from execs in ways known only to officials.

Okey-doke! For those so outstanding as to deserve bonuses from their firms just happening to be getting PUBLIC money to continue running on pretext the public will avail of it via their stewardship, on further claim the customers couldn't pay and aren't expected to return to ability to pay in this lifetime, such execs and their relateds should be given whatever bonuses their firms believe due...just not from PUBLIC funds especially since the claim is the funds are to "Stimulate all but the creepy people who are schemers".

Surely, Congress doesn't see their constituents on the majority as schemers against companies who, at least in some cases, might not have been as upfront in financial dealings or investment advice; surely, no potentate would say public money should go just to fill a void created by a firm running short because if they pay out most private profits as salaries and bonuses for themselves "the little schemers" will be in a crisis.

Then again, Hamas, Laden, and Pakistan are among those tossed bazillions in USA aid, so paying terrorists not to commit terror doesn't work ala Mumbai; and bazillions to Mexico for its "drug war" seems to accomplish nothing as we open borders; yet apparently at least in paying them we get to clear multi-racial "little schemers" on claims Laden or drug lords or somebody might slip operatives into aimless public aggregations of jobless, foreclosed, renters evicted due to landlord in foreclosure despite renters paying, and so forth...we know such foreign aid cash makes it to such governments, and maybe that's a reason there's an air of trepidation with USA banks about "ability to repay" re multi-ethnic USA residents.

Of course, we don't even know where all this alleged bailout cash sits, what with so many Palins and other officials all returning it saying they don't need it to deal with their own problems efficiently and swiftly,  or where private bailees have put it, or what the plan to save us is exactly from anybody public or private who says they don't need government to help.

Wouldn't it be funny if all that bailout cash never was printed and distributed, and everything from drug companies to other "bailees" just got to always be treated as if the money existed, or eventually might if the need for money by "the populace" turned to Socialist credits not involved or affording equity in cash or requiring operation of businesses/jobs, or "the populace" otherwise became more "manageable"?