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AIG: Thanks America … please don’t hate us anymore



The “Thank You America” campaign will tout the repayment of the $182.3 billion bailout they received.

AIG took a lot of heat for that bailout; thugs picketed AIG employee’s homes and in some cases scared the hell out of employee’s families.

I get the anger, but those who picketed probably will never contribute as much to our economy as AIG has.

Not only did AIG pay back its bailout money, the government actually made $22.7 billion from the transaction.

According to PolitiFact, though not all of the financial institutions have paid back their bailouts, Americans have made about $19 billion on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

How many other institutions can claim that their bailout made money for taxpayers in return much less paid back the principal? I can think of two that have been touted as bailout successes that Americans have taken billion dollar losses on.

Well, you’re welcome, AIG, though flowers would have been nice. Or a Book of Free, a game card from Chuck E. Cheese’s, something.

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Chris Quinn