Katie Couric's Notebook: AIG
Where should angry taxpayers direct their wrath -- and hand-eye coordination?
Americans are furious that AIG executives were paid millions in bonuses while getting billions in bailout bucks.
Now, that's the DART ... but there are several targets.
Deregulation that led to such risky financing in the first place; Congress for not paying closer attention to TARP funds; and Congress and President Obama for allowing the bonuses to stay in the stimulus package.
And then, of course, there are the AIG executives themselves who are so out of touch with the millions of Americans who are either struggling, fed up with corporate greed -- or both.
Some suggest the public's anger has become irrational. After all, if AIG folds, the ramifications will be devastating.
Maybe we should trade in the darts for a jigsaw puzzle so the public and the policy-makers can put together the pieces of a crumbling financial system. Stop playing the blame game and become whole again.
That's a page from my notebook.