BAIL-OUT BUNGLE: THIRTEEN WAYS TO GET YOUR POACHED PENNIES BACK FROM THE BAIL OUT MONIES

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With all the brouhaha going on about AIG's Bonus Bungling of the Bail Out Bucks (hey, it ticked me off too!) I have decided to try to come up with Thirteen Ways to get our bail out money back from the banks. Remember, this is your money - your "tax dollars at work". Ready? Here we go:

1. Close all your secondary bank accounts - who wants to balance more than one monthly statement anyway?
   
2. Switch your account to a bank that doesn't charge a monthly fee.
3. If you're over retirement age try to get a free account that has no fees at all.
4. In fact, try that even if you're not old - see if you can talk your bank into dropping all your fees.
5. Open up a gazillion accounts at each of the bailed out banks and get your free toaster-stuffed toy-weekly promotional goodie they give to new accounts. Close the account immediately after you get the freebie.
6. Go in to your bank in your free time and drink their coffee, use their bathroom - the more coffee you drink the more water and T.P. you'll use in their bathroom.
7. Take wire cutters with you each time you go to the bank and steal their pens.
   
8. If they've modernized and the pens aren't on those little ball chains anymore? Take a handful of bland deposit/withdrawal slips home to use as note paper.
9. Sit in the bank on hot days and use their air conditioning.
10. Sit in the bank on cold days and use their heat.
11. Put your money in your mattress - the interest rate at the banks is so low anyway that driving there to get some money out costs more in gas than the interest is worth!
12. Pay your actual income taxes - that way you'll have less money to put in the bank. That'll teach 'em.
13. Go to work at a bank as a high mucky-muck suit and get your share of the bail-out money bonuses.
    

I think AIG should be forced to take that bonus money and create 165 jobs that pay 100,000 a year and fill those positions within 1 month, or 330 jobs at $50K a year, and those jobs should be guaranteed positions for a minimum of ten years. And they have to hire outside the company or any subsidiaries.

And maybe those executive's salaries should be cut as well as those bonuses being taken away.

Do you have any good ideas to add?

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