{"id":183627,"date":"2013-01-09T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/09\/quote-of-the-day-178\/"},"modified":"2013-01-09T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T01:16:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-178","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/09\/quote-of-the-day-178\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The only problem is, the suit is being filed by maybe the biggest douchebag of all time, Hank Greenberg (and his company, Starr International), a man who has not only been proven to be corrupt and a fraud, but who perhaps more than anyone else was responsible for the galactic balance-sheet goat-f%$# that caused AIG&#8217;s implosion in the first place. If there is such a person as an innocent AIG shareholder who was harmed by the government&#8217;s conduct, it sure as hell isn&#8217;t Hank Greenberg.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><i>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/blogs\/taibblog\/hank-greenberg-should-be-shot-into-space-for-suing-the-government-over-the-aig-bailout-20130109\">Matt Taibbi<\/a>, on Greenberg&#8217;s suit against the US because he did not get well paid enough for running AIG into the ground.<\/i> <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>%$# mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, In an unexpected outbreak of sanity AIG has decided not to join Greenberg&#8217;s lawauit.<\/p>\n<p>Still, &#8220;Galactic Balance Sheet goat f%$#,&#8221;&nbsp; that is good, even by Matt&#8217;s high standards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/blogs\/taibblog\/hank-greenberg-should-be-shot-into-space-for-suing-the-government-over-the-aig-bailout-20130109\">Go read<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only problem is, the suit is being filed by maybe the biggest douchebag of all time, Hank Greenberg (and his company, Starr International), a man who has not only been proven to be corrupt and a fraud, but who perhaps more than anyone else was responsible for the galactic balance-sheet goat-f%$# that caused AIG&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,1004,1002,972,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-finance","category-good-writing","category-justice","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}