I literally was about to say the same exact thing. We’re in a recession and these nimrods have nothing better to do than protest? They should’ve spent that time earning money or looking for a means to do so.
… that Obama and Co haven’t returned all the campaign $ they have received from AIG. Doesn’t this mean that we, as taxpayers, are donating our $ to these campaigns? Damn, I forgot to deduct that.
Good for them. The government takes advantage of us all the time. Does that say enough to you? And most people buy it. Such as, we need to raise taxes to pay for teachers, police and fire or we have to cut back in those areas. NO YOU DON’T. Cut the pork barrel projects that we don’t hear much about but yet cost us billions. Oh and the ever so mighty comments about, we need to raise taxes because of inflation. Well aren’t most taxes a percentage of something? Sales tax for instance is 8.2% (depending where you live) and if inflation has increased everything by 3%, well isn’t 8.2% of $103 greater than 8.2% of $100? But America will buy into all this bull. I hear it everyday at work, “Do you want less fire, police, etc…?” “No, I want less of my tax dollars going for commercials for private businesses and I want less of my tax dollars going to a railroad museum. Let the railroad pay for it. Oh wait, didn’t we bail them out once too?”
They are like Nazi’s. Next thing Congress will place the star of “A” on their shirts similar to the Nazi treatment of the Jews in the 1930 & 40’s. This treatment is sickening and awful. These protestors are like concentration camp guards.
Your statement is ignorant. AIG and the free market were reacting to programs put in place in 1999 by Franklin Raines CEO of the government sponsored entity Fanny Mae. If you want to protest suggest you protest Barney Frank and his Democrats that said “THESE MORTGAGES ARE RISKLESS”.
Do any of you stop to listen to what you are saying?
You want to ship American citizens to a Gulag for using their freedom of speech because you do not agree with their opinion.
You compare demonstrators to concentration camp guards and accuse the government of wanting to make disfavored company employees wear special identification.
Opposing a company peacefully is not the same as beating, torchering, and murdering its employees. A congressional hearing trying to find out how the bonuses slipped through the cracks, even if they want to know who got the money, is hardly a mandate to wear the scarlet letter.
In the name of defending capitalism, you are engaging in the big lie smear technique and attempting to repeal freedom of speech. Please stop.
Many of those comments are meant in sarcasim as well as an attempt to point out that we are straying further and further from a free democratic capitalistic country.
3. AIG – CEO, Robert Willumstad; 2007 compensation for former CEO, 14.3 million; 2007 profits: $6.2 billion; assets, $1.06 trillion; “AIG executives have also come under fire for opportunistically seeking price increases during catastrophes. Now the company has been labeled ‘the new Enron’ because of charges of multibillion-dollar corporate fraud.”
4. STATE FARM – CEO: Edward B. Rust Jr.; 2007 compensation, $11.7 million; 2007 profits: $5.5 billion; assets, $181.4 billion. “In many cases, the company has gone to extreme lengths to avoid paying claims, including forging signatures on earthquake waivers after the deadly Northridge earthquake, and altering engineering reports regarding damage after Hurricane Katrina.”
insurance giant – Edward LIDDY. THE MARKET GIVETH AND THE MARKET TAKETH AWAY! MAYBE MR LIDDY AND MR ED RUST OF STATE FARM SHOULD HAVE A SET DOWN. STATE FARM WILL BE HAPPY TO TELL ALL OF US HOW BIG THEY ARE IN BANKING, JUST LIKE AIG. If the american people as taxes payers own 80 % of AIG THEN WHY CAN’T WE BE PART OF AN AMERICAN COMPANY OWNED BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND RUN BY THE PEOPLE, NOT THE NUTS THAT WILL FILL UP THERE BANK ACCOUNTS AND NOT CARE ABOUT ANYONE ELSE?
bonuses awarded to employees
Comment:
Thank you but no thank you is what these guys should say if they care about the country. But as we all have witnessed THIS IS NOT THE CASE. I have a new business that I have worked at for over a year. I have paid my employees but a pittance to myself so that I could keep it running. I have put my heart and soul into my business. My body aches. I am tired and I PRAY please do not let me lose everthing, and then on top of all of that I have to hear all of this money being wasted. Yesterday I FELL APART AT THE DRIVE . I TRIED TO EMAIL OBAMA BUT DID NOT GET THROUGH. I GUESS THE WHOLE COUNTY IS IN THE SAME BOAT. PLEASE President Barack Obama STOP ALL OF THIS, PLEASE. AND COULD YOU CALL LINDA AT BANK OF AMERICA IN PULLMAN WA AND TELL HER SHE CAN HELP ME WITH MY BUSINESS. SHE’LL KNOW WHO YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT. JUST TELL HER ABOUT THE SNOW DAY. HEY, I FIGURE IF AIG CAN ASK FOR 300 BILLION AND STILL PAY BONUSES TO IT’S EMPLOYEES THEN I CAN ASK FOR A LITTLE, DON’T YOU? AIG THANK WHAT PEOPLE COULD DO WITH THIS MONEY THEY COULD STILL HAVE THE AMERICAN DREAM.
Comment:
THE SHOUTING DRAMA, yes the whole world is shouting nobody important just maybe you should wake up. IF YOU DO NOT SEE ALL THE GREED THAN MY FRIEND YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM THE SHOUTING HAS JUST STARTED.
‘To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.’ When God takes something from your grasp, He’s not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better. Concentrate on this sentence..’The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.’
The Honorable Kay Hagan
US Senator – North Carolina
B40A Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Hagan:
I would like to share with you my personal experience with AIG Insurance Co. as an injured worker for the past 32 months, long before it became fashionable to dislike them publicly.
I sustained an on-the-job-injury August 6, 2006 and to date have never received either temporary disability Workers Compensation benefits or permanent disability Workers Compensation benefits from AIG Insurance Co. Instead, the following AIG employees attempted to defraud me out of all Workers Compensation benefits by claiming an offset against a separate long-term disability insurance policy through another insurance company. Since I personally paid the premiums for this separate long-term disability insurance policy via payroll deduction, the fraudulent practice of these AIG individuals is illegal under North Carolina law. The rights of injured North Carolina workers are apparently irrelevant to the bailout-king AIG Insurance Co. and their fraudulent face is well-represented by:
Frances M. Clement
Brooks Stevens & Pope
PO Box 33358
Raleigh, NC 27636-3358
Physical Address: 5121 Kingdom Way
Raleigh, NC 27607
Offices on 3 rd floor Suite 300
919-481-9103 fclement@bsp-pa.com
Tina N. North
Claim Specialist
AIG Insurance Co.
411-WC Pittsburgh, PA
412-393-3929 Tina.North@AIG.com
My Workers Compensation AIG Insurance Co. claim number is #710-286671
The NC Industrial Commission File number for my case is #647232
Although Ms. Clement & Ms. North claim to have no desire to litigate, no benefit payment from AIG Insurance Co. is ever forthcoming. Evidently the AIG party fund has a much higher priority. Were it not for my separate personal insurance and frugality, I would have lost my home in addition to losing my professional position and health.
I implore all entities and agencies to right this endless wrong. These individuals should be held accountable and prosecuted for fraud by the North Carolina Industrial Commission. I have already filed a complaint with the commission. Ms. Clements has been aware of this payment impropriety since June 2008 and has been stalling progress on behalf of her AIG client ever since. Her ignorant request for my medical records on behalf of AIG in June 2008 triggered my concern. Such a request from a source that had denied I was entitled to any benefits at all was the catalyst for my initial analysis of NC Workers Compensation law.
As an injured North Carolina worker, I formally request that you use the power of your office to acquaint these AIG Insurance Co. employees with North Carolina law and assist them in gaining the proper respect for it. The scamming of injured North Carolina workers is the epitome of loathsome behavior by an organization with a history of staffing from the under-belly of society.
Thank you very much for your time and attention to this matter. I look forward to an eventual resolution to this nightmare.
get a job losers. i hate them too…
I literally was about to say the same exact thing. We’re in a recession and these nimrods have nothing better to do than protest? They should’ve spent that time earning money or looking for a means to do so.
Maybe they are out of a job. It is a recession, you know…
Maybe, just maybe, they are out of jobs because AIG ran the company into the ground — and took the economy with it.
Ya think?
Did anyone notice who the sponsors of the protests were?
Unions and MoveOn.org
That says enough to me…organizations taking advantage of the situation.
… that Obama and Co haven’t returned all the campaign $ they have received from AIG. Doesn’t this mean that we, as taxpayers, are donating our $ to these campaigns? Damn, I forgot to deduct that.
Good for them. The government takes advantage of us all the time. Does that say enough to you? And most people buy it. Such as, we need to raise taxes to pay for teachers, police and fire or we have to cut back in those areas. NO YOU DON’T. Cut the pork barrel projects that we don’t hear much about but yet cost us billions. Oh and the ever so mighty comments about, we need to raise taxes because of inflation. Well aren’t most taxes a percentage of something? Sales tax for instance is 8.2% (depending where you live) and if inflation has increased everything by 3%, well isn’t 8.2% of $103 greater than 8.2% of $100? But America will buy into all this bull. I hear it everyday at work, “Do you want less fire, police, etc…?” “No, I want less of my tax dollars going for commercials for private businesses and I want less of my tax dollars going to a railroad museum. Let the railroad pay for it. Oh wait, didn’t we bail them out once too?”
They are like Nazi’s. Next thing Congress will place the star of “A” on their shirts similar to the Nazi treatment of the Jews in the 1930 & 40’s. This treatment is sickening and awful. These protestors are like concentration camp guards.
Labor Unions protesting bailouts? What about GM and Chrysler? Are you going to protest their bailouts as well?
Your statement is ignorant. AIG and the free market were reacting to programs put in place in 1999 by Franklin Raines CEO of the government sponsored entity Fanny Mae. If you want to protest suggest you protest Barney Frank and his Democrats that said “THESE MORTGAGES ARE RISKLESS”.
Next thing those cowardly politicians will send the AIG employees to Guantanamo as they release the kind terrorists to the USA mainland.
ALL of this crapola and waste of time could have been avoided by letting things run their natural course with B/R.
Do any of you stop to listen to what you are saying?
You want to ship American citizens to a Gulag for using their freedom of speech because you do not agree with their opinion.
You compare demonstrators to concentration camp guards and accuse the government of wanting to make disfavored company employees wear special identification.
Opposing a company peacefully is not the same as beating, torchering, and murdering its employees. A congressional hearing trying to find out how the bonuses slipped through the cracks, even if they want to know who got the money, is hardly a mandate to wear the scarlet letter.
In the name of defending capitalism, you are engaging in the big lie smear technique and attempting to repeal freedom of speech. Please stop.
Tired:
Many of those comments are meant in sarcasim as well as an attempt to point out that we are straying further and further from a free democratic capitalistic country.
Nothing more…nothing less.
3. AIG – CEO, Robert Willumstad; 2007 compensation for former CEO, 14.3 million; 2007 profits: $6.2 billion; assets, $1.06 trillion; “AIG executives have also come under fire for opportunistically seeking price increases during catastrophes. Now the company has been labeled ‘the new Enron’ because of charges of multibillion-dollar corporate fraud.”
4. STATE FARM – CEO: Edward B. Rust Jr.; 2007 compensation, $11.7 million; 2007 profits: $5.5 billion; assets, $181.4 billion. “In many cases, the company has gone to extreme lengths to avoid paying claims, including forging signatures on earthquake waivers after the deadly Northridge earthquake, and altering engineering reports regarding damage after Hurricane Katrina.”
insurance giant – Edward LIDDY. THE MARKET GIVETH AND THE MARKET TAKETH AWAY! MAYBE MR LIDDY AND MR ED RUST OF STATE FARM SHOULD HAVE A SET DOWN. STATE FARM WILL BE HAPPY TO TELL ALL OF US HOW BIG THEY ARE IN BANKING, JUST LIKE AIG. If the american people as taxes payers own 80 % of AIG THEN WHY CAN’T WE BE PART OF AN AMERICAN COMPANY OWNED BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND RUN BY THE PEOPLE, NOT THE NUTS THAT WILL FILL UP THERE BANK ACCOUNTS AND NOT CARE ABOUT ANYONE ELSE?
bonuses awarded to employees
Comment:
Thank you but no thank you is what these guys should say if they care about the country. But as we all have witnessed THIS IS NOT THE CASE. I have a new business that I have worked at for over a year. I have paid my employees but a pittance to myself so that I could keep it running. I have put my heart and soul into my business. My body aches. I am tired and I PRAY please do not let me lose everthing, and then on top of all of that I have to hear all of this money being wasted. Yesterday I FELL APART AT THE DRIVE . I TRIED TO EMAIL OBAMA BUT DID NOT GET THROUGH. I GUESS THE WHOLE COUNTY IS IN THE SAME BOAT. PLEASE President Barack Obama STOP ALL OF THIS, PLEASE. AND COULD YOU CALL LINDA AT BANK OF AMERICA IN PULLMAN WA AND TELL HER SHE CAN HELP ME WITH MY BUSINESS. SHE’LL KNOW WHO YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT. JUST TELL HER ABOUT THE SNOW DAY. HEY, I FIGURE IF AIG CAN ASK FOR 300 BILLION AND STILL PAY BONUSES TO IT’S EMPLOYEES THEN I CAN ASK FOR A LITTLE, DON’T YOU? AIG THANK WHAT PEOPLE COULD DO WITH THIS MONEY THEY COULD STILL HAVE THE AMERICAN DREAM.
400 AIG Financial Unit Employees Promised $650 Million in Bonuses
PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP THIS.
THE SHOUTING DRAMA QUEEN STRIKES AGAIN.
Comment:
THE SHOUTING DRAMA, yes the whole world is shouting nobody important just maybe you should wake up. IF YOU DO NOT SEE ALL THE GREED THAN MY FRIEND YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM THE SHOUTING HAS JUST STARTED.
‘To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.’ When God takes something from your grasp, He’s not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better. Concentrate on this sentence..’The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.’
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Waxhaw, NC 28173
April 18, 2009
The Honorable Kay Hagan
US Senator – North Carolina
B40A Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Hagan:
I would like to share with you my personal experience with AIG Insurance Co. as an injured worker for the past 32 months, long before it became fashionable to dislike them publicly.
I sustained an on-the-job-injury August 6, 2006 and to date have never received either temporary disability Workers Compensation benefits or permanent disability Workers Compensation benefits from AIG Insurance Co. Instead, the following AIG employees attempted to defraud me out of all Workers Compensation benefits by claiming an offset against a separate long-term disability insurance policy through another insurance company. Since I personally paid the premiums for this separate long-term disability insurance policy via payroll deduction, the fraudulent practice of these AIG individuals is illegal under North Carolina law. The rights of injured North Carolina workers are apparently irrelevant to the bailout-king AIG Insurance Co. and their fraudulent face is well-represented by:
Frances M. Clement
Brooks Stevens & Pope
PO Box 33358
Raleigh, NC 27636-3358
Physical Address: 5121 Kingdom Way
Raleigh, NC 27607
Offices on 3 rd floor Suite 300
919-481-9103
fclement@bsp-pa.com
Tina N. North
Claim Specialist
AIG Insurance Co.
411-WC Pittsburgh, PA
412-393-3929
Tina.North@AIG.com
My Workers Compensation AIG Insurance Co. claim number is #710-286671
The NC Industrial Commission File number for my case is #647232
Although Ms. Clement & Ms. North claim to have no desire to litigate, no benefit payment from AIG Insurance Co. is ever forthcoming. Evidently the AIG party fund has a much higher priority. Were it not for my separate personal insurance and frugality, I would have lost my home in addition to losing my professional position and health.
I implore all entities and agencies to right this endless wrong. These individuals should be held accountable and prosecuted for fraud by the North Carolina Industrial Commission. I have already filed a complaint with the commission. Ms. Clements has been aware of this payment impropriety since June 2008 and has been stalling progress on behalf of her AIG client ever since. Her ignorant request for my medical records on behalf of AIG in June 2008 triggered my concern. Such a request from a source that had denied I was entitled to any benefits at all was the catalyst for my initial analysis of NC Workers Compensation law.
As an injured North Carolina worker, I formally request that you use the power of your office to acquaint these AIG Insurance Co. employees with North Carolina law and assist them in gaining the proper respect for it. The scamming of injured North Carolina workers is the epitome of loathsome behavior by an organization with a history of staffing from the under-belly of society.
Thank you very much for your time and attention to this matter. I look forward to an eventual resolution to this nightmare.
Sincerely,
(Electronic signature)
Mark A. Vance