I would join a lynch mob to kill AIG executives receiving bonuses. Don't give me this "contractual obligation" bullshit. You have no money to pay these bonuses. Therefore, you don't pay them. When I bought a plane ticket on Independence Air and they went UNDER, what happened to my contractually obligated flight?!?! They ceased operations, and I never got a cent.
Same deal--you would have been bankrupted and gotten NO BONUSES if John and Jane Taxpayer hadn't bailed your asses out. Insolvency=No Money to pay bonuses.
In my job, if I burn the building down and bankrupt the company, I don't get a bonus, I get fired, and never work again.
Unless you work for AIG, apparently.
FUCK YOU AIG.
Seriously.