- Dear AIG, I Quit

Jake DeSantis has resigned from AIG and the New York Times has published his resignation letter. He's not going to be threatened into giving back the money he was paid, and I say good for him. It makes me proud to know that there is still a man out there somewhere. He's also pulled the curtain back on the shameful acts of our politicians, and their left wing activist cohorts and their enabling media.

Many of you who are reading this who also know me personally know that I've had a few occasions in my career where I had to choose between doing what I thought was right and doing what most people would call 'the smart thing'. The opportunities for sacrificing your values on the alter of political expediency are many in the modern world, and the financial industry is no different. But on those occasions, I've always tried to act by my conscience instead of being guided by politics. My career has suffered for it, and I've even lost jobs over it, but my decisions have never made me lose any sleep.

And speaking from the perspective of a man who's made those choices, I can only hope to live up to the standard that Jake Desantis is setting here. He's one man standing all alone against the tyranny of the masses. He's on the front lines of the new cultural war between the liberty of the individual, and the mandatory 'responsibility' imposed by force on the public by the ruling elite. The government is discarding the rule of law to coerce him into behaving as they want him to, and his response is that all important phrase that used to mean so much in American culture. He's looking Andrew Cuomo and Barney Frank and Barak Obama in the eye and saying to them what we should all saying if we still value freedom. He's saying "No... I will not!"

I hope he's is proud of himself... I'm certainly proud of him. He's standing up against a long list of powerful tyrants when no one else will do it for him. He's a brave man who deserves our respect, and he certainly has mine.

Well Done Jake.

Read his resignation letter here.


PS. In all honesty there is one thing that I would have done differently than Jake. He's planning on giving his money to charity, and I would have spent mine. If I earn something I'm reluctant in the extreme to hand to over to anyone for any reasons other than my own, least of all because they say they deserve it. I'd have given it up only if it were pried from my cold dead hands, and the shame would be on them for forcing me, not on me for resisting.