Originally Posted by sleepy jack

It's not really semantics. You made either an ignorant statement or told a lie (either way it was false.) It was a rather pivotal point in your argument (you said it "seems" the loans are being given to departments who turned a profit and then went onto explain what this would mean in simpler terms.) The problem is the bonuses are not going towards a department that turned a profit instead they're going to the department that brought AIG to the state it's now. So it's a bit more than "semantics."