Leave it to a physical scientist to drive the nail straight and with one blow. "Make all things as simple as possible, but no simpler."

Morality is not a decision between a right and a wrong. That decision is clear. Morality is a decision between two wrongs or two rights. In the case of AIG, it appears to be two wrongs.

And here is the taint if not the pure adultery of that legal position. AIG has now been loaned money by the citizens of the USA (our government), and some of those citizens are those that have been swindled by the same AIG employees that are to receive the million dollar bonuses. Is that a moral condition of law?

Is not the AIG situation one of bad and very bad? If a law states that I must reward a person that has harmed me and others, is not that law immoral? What is the extension of such a law? It is the entire destruction of a society.

Morality is a hot topic right now. The skullduggery of very clever people has not only harmed their fellow citizens but has cracked the very integrity of the US financial system with AIG being the present immoral perpetrator.

The federal government must not reward immoral behavior. We do not allow our sons and daughters to hurt others and then be given an allowance and then even a reward for hurting others. Why should we reward adults for the same immoral behavior?

The AIG situation brings to the fore an even greater moral question. When a person assaults another person and brings harm, when a person has sex with an under age person, when a person murders another person, even when a person steals from another person, the perpetrator can go to prison for 7 years to life. Yet when a corporation such as Enron or AIG, even Bear Sterns causes thousands of people to lose their property and their life savings, are not these corporations stealing mightily from people? They are. Prison is appropriate.

Question. Why is the captain of a ship, be it a cruse ship with many people on board or an aircraft carrier again carrying many people, the last one to leave a sinking ship or maybe chose to go down with the ship? Among other reasons, if he/she were derelict in his/her duties, he/she is going to be held absolutely responsible for the people’s death. That responsibility is part of his/her power throne. He/she knows the power of being a captain, not the least of which is to put his/her passenger’s life first.

The captains of financial ships should be as morally responsible as captains of floating ships.

Can we even imagine a pilot of a cruse ship or of an Pan American airlines ship taking risks to the extent as did Enron or AIG? It would be deemed immoral and criminal. Prison.

The captains of sailing ship and airships are our trusted protectors. These people are smart, talented, and strongly disciplined. They know their job. But one thing they are not is "clever" and that is exactly what the captains and officers of Enron and AIG were, "CLEVER".

Being smart caries with it a moral integrity. Egil Krogh has a book called "Integrity" with a simple message, "Integrity counts." Egil is a smart man. He used to be a clever man. His cleverness put him in prison as a perpetrator of the Watergate/Nixon illegal dealings, dealing that led to Nixon resigning as the president of the United States of America. Smart people carry a responsibility to care for us who are not so smart, which is the majority of us. Egil is a unique lawyer. He carries a simple message. "Integrity counts."

Smart people run corporations. Smart people run our country. Smart people really, really need to learn that in financial and political dealings, simple is best and clever is often as criminal as murder.

The federal government of the USA owns over 75% of AIG. Our government, we the people, need to dismiss the cheaters and have the attorney general investigate their wrong doings as if a moral and civil wrong were committed against thousands of people.

Morality is needed, right now. Now is the time for Obama to lead our country with the moral wisdom parents lead their children. Really it is that simple.

You know why "Simple" is best? Because "simple" is understood by the majority if not the vast majority of people. Nature is simple. Simple is anticipatable. Simple is reliable. Simple brings people together. KISSO = Keep It Simple Smart Ones.