We're all scraping by just to keep up with our monthly bills, and AIG is doing this with our bailout cash:
American International Group plans to pay out $503 million in deferred compensation to some of its top employees, saying it must tap the funds to keep valuable workers from exiting the troubled insurance giant.
They're not even trying to hide it. The hubris is staggering. Here's to hoping some serious regulatory handcuffs will be authorized by Congress in the coming months -- though it's only a fool's hope.