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I normally only listen to Fox News, but yesterday I decided to check out MSNBS and see their views one things. Of course, Ed Shultz, the substitute anchor of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue which was on when I tuned in, was talking about the whole thing about the AIG bonuses. Ed repeatedly announced that he was outraged and appropriately called himself a game-show host for playing on the word "outrage" when he started off and made sure that everyone he interviewed on the show was "outraged". His whole beef was the fact that AIG was using our money to pay these bonuses and added onto that saying "and don't give me any crap about their contracts. Businessmen negotiate those things all the time". I agree that it wasn't right for them to use tax dollars to pay only their executives and give their employees nothing, but "negotiating" contracts would be an immoral decision on their part just like any company before them. I believe that contracts should be treated as law and for Congress to suggest that the contracts should be just thrown out in this situation is like saying that we should sometimes maybe not go with the constitution if we decide to agree on disagreeing with whatever it says.

I think that this is all a game like Ed Shultz unknowingly admitted. I don't completely agree with the actions that AIG took to take care of their financial problems, but for the government to make this out to be a bigger deal than it really is and to say that the people who took the bonuses should commit suicide and should be taxed 1,000% is going a little far; especially since they were the ones who took money from us to give to AIG to begin with. What they're really doing here is trying to pull off a show to make it look like they really are "outraged" and with David Shuster and the mainstream media as the hosts of the show, they make it make it out that capitalism breeds nothing but corruption and that Obama and Congress are the heroes that are going to save the day.

Now it would come as no surprise that the government would pull off a stunt like this since they did something very similar when passing the Omnibus bill only a couple weeks ago. When Obama signed the 9,000 eamarks into law, not much was said about it since the whole deal about him lifting of the ban on publicly-funded (a.k.a. taxpayer funded) stem-cell research seemed to have more of an importance on all of the news channels, so it just passed on by. All they're doing is creating a diversion.