If I had it to do over again, I would have majored in business. Here's why. It's a bill from a fashionable spa in sunny California. Note the grand total. 443,000 smackeroo's. Whew!
And who's being billed all that money?...Why none other than AIG. You've heard of them, right? They're a big Wall Street outfit that was about to go belly-up last month, until the government rode to the rescue with $85 billion of taxpayer moolah.
And what's the first thing AIG does with all that brand new inflow of bail-out capital from Uncle Sam? Why they throw a big shindig for the boys in the sales department for a job well done.
Oh, brother! Did I ever get in the wrong racket ?!
UPDATE!
Even after all the hullabaloo created by AIG's half-million dollar weeklong post-bailout vacation, Treasury Secretary Henry "Swifty" Paulson has decided to award the troubled company an additional $37.8 billion in federal subsidies.
All of which gives more and more credence to conspiratorial claims on the part of some observers that Bush and Paulson and Wall Street have successfuly engineered the greatest bank robbery in history -- and with the sanction of Congress to boot. The result: a sudden and massive redistribution of wealth under the guise of a $750 billion loan.
...Or is there an alternative interpretation?
NO. NOT IN A MILLION YEARS!
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