There's some good debate on CNBC this afternoon about AIG's plight, but the government bail out talk coming from those who are typically in direct contradiction to themselves today is amusing -- typical tax-and-spend (or worse- borrow and spend) welfare state mentality. I thought that government can't take care of everyone and that big government isn't the answer to everyone's problems? I guess they were for the free market economy before they were against it.
Update: How's this for luck? Lehman's landlord at Canary Wharf in London announced that the Lehman rent to them is insured -- by AIG. Lehman leases over a million square feet there on contract through 2033, and the company is now in bankruptcy. Here's the link.
