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Let me get this straight - the government attempts to bailout incompetent, bankrupt companies...executives such as those at AIG figure out ways to siphon off the bailout money for their own personal gain (entirely predictably) in this case spending $440,000 on a weekend long golf-outing and spa retreat...Barack Obama says "those executives should be fired"...that's partly true, but I have a better idea. Let's JAIL those criminals and fire ALL the lesgislators who have failed us absolutely in (a) regulating the companies so that the failure wouldn't become systemic and (b) using our hard-earned tax dollars to bail out companies that were mismanaged and that we do not own. The system is riddled with incompetence and dishonesty at all levels in all sectors and it's starting to PISS ME OFF. Sorry, Sen. Obama, too little too late. All the polliticians are the same, the bailout proves it. Dishonest incompetents in government and business are not only stealing our present financial security, they're stealing from our grandchildren and beyond, and they are perhaps the worst threat our country faces - thieving from within. Link: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/08/politicians.meltdown.aig.ap/index.html