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<H1 class=title><A href="http://weknowwhatsup.blogspot.com/">Facts For Working
People</A></H1>Tuesday, September 24, 2013</SPAN></H2>
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<H3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">AIG boss: workers' anger at
their bonuses as bad as the lynching of blacks in the south </H3>
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<DIV>AIG boss, Robert Benmosche, </DIV>
<DIV>the "persecuted minority"</DIV>
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class=entry-header> Richard Mellor - </HEADER><HEADER
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itemprop="description articleBody"></HEADER><HEADER class=entry-header>The CEO
of AIG, the one who came after the <I>"socialist"</I> bailout of his
company is very hurt and angry. He told the <A
href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324807704579087360260812026.html">Wall
Street Journal</A> that the anger the American people displayed over the bonuses
the AIG coupon clippers were promised was as bad as the lynching of Blacks by
the Klan and white supremacists in the American South:</DIV>
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<DIV class=wp-byline>The uproar over bonuses <I>"was intended to stir public
anger, to get everybody out there with their pitchforks and their hangman
nooses, and all that — sort of like what we did in the Deep South
[decades ago]. And I think it was just as bad and just as wrong.", </I>AIG's CEO
Robert Benmosche said according to Ezra Klein the <A
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/24/aig-ceo-anger-over-aig-bonuses-just-as-bad-as-lynchings/?tid=rssfeed">Washington
Post blogger</A>.</DIV>
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<DIV class=wp-byline>As Klein points out, <I>"...enduring some public criticism
for receiving multimillion-dollar bonuses after helping crash the global economy
is a lot like being hanged from a tree by your neck until you die."</I></DIV>
<DIV class=wp-byline>The poor wealthy 1%. Perhaps Bono will release
his latest version of Strange Fruit to draw attention to the horrific way
the AIG folks have been treated<I>. </I></DIV><I> </I><BR>
<DIV class=wp-byline>Klein reminds us that back then, as the taxpayers pulled
capitalism from the edge of the abyss it was fashionable to compare the
treatment of the coupon clippers, those responsible for the Great
recession, <I> </I>to the way <I>"Nazi Germany treated the weak."</I> He
quotes supermarket boss John Catsimatidis who said; <I>“Taxes are going to go up
regardless. What I’m afraid of is, we shouldn’t punish any one group. Whether
we’re punishing people who are wealthy,” he said. “New York is for everybody;
it’s for the poor, it’s for the middle-class, it’s for the wealthy. We
can’t punish any one group and chase them away. We – I mean, Hitler punished the
Jews. We can’t have punishing the ‘2 percent group’ right now.”</I></DIV>
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<DIV class=wp-byline>The arrogance of these wasters.</DIV>
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<DIV class=wp-byline>Stephen Schwarzman, the head of one of the major coupon
clipping outfits, Blackstone, said: <I>“It’s a war,” . “It’s like when Hitler
invaded Poland in 1939.”. </I>Schwarzman is worth $7.7 billion and is
number 54 on <A
href="http://www.forbes.com/profile/stephen-schwarzman/gallery/2">Forbes' list
</A>of richest Americans. </DIV>
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<DIV class=wp-byline>Imagine that! Workers and our living standards have
been savaged over the past period. People cannot get health care, lost their
homes and jobs. Millions of youth that capitalism has abandoned languish in the
US prison industrial complex and the billionaires being attacked for getting
bonuses after they ran a company in to the ground, plundered the wealth of
society and then were bailed out by their victims and are being treated
like the Jews under Nazism. <BR></DIV>
<DIV class=wp-byline>The situation in the US is extremely volatile. The
anger beneath the surface of society bubbling like magma under a volcano cannot
yet find an organizational expression. The heads of organized Labor refuse
to lead and the anger comes out in all sorts of obsessive and destructive ways,
drugs, alcohol, domestic violence and religious escapism.</DIV>
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<DIV class=wp-byline>I know a number of young veterans psychologically and
physically damaged due to their horrific experiences fighting the US
corporations' wars. There are the millions displaced, maimed and/or killed
by Washington's foreign policy developed to serve the interests of these same
coupon clippers and their system. I am overwhelmed with anger that they can get
away with saying things like this. The absence of an organizational
expression for this anger at the rich and their rotten system means the process
of building a movement against the capitalist offensive is not only delayed but
will, when it picks up speed, pass through much confusion and unnecessary
roadblocks, from reaction to revolutionary activity, as it tries to find its
feet.</DIV>
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<DIV class=wp-byline>But find its feet it will and the likes of AIG's CEO and
Stephen Schwarzman and other coupon clippers might well find themselves in the
same shape the Romanov's were in 1917. There is a lot of anger out there
and I have a feeling that those willing to throw themselves in front of the mass
of angry workers to save the likes of these characters will be few and far
between. I know I
won't.</DIV></DIV></HEADER></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>