according to janet tavakoli. "aig wants to stay alive.. what's happening is that investors are picking at the corpse of aig.. money flows into aig and it flows out to trading partners.. investment banks.. getting huge paydays.. paying their employees huge bonuses. " in aig's latest quarterly report issued in august... the company reported asset sales.. generating 4.6 billion dollars in after tax proceeds... during the first 6 months of the year... aig's asset sales have been slow... because of lower than expected values for its operations... and hopes are dimming that taxpayers will actually see the entire bailout money paid back. "do i expect the 180 billion paid back.. possibility.. but the interest behind it.. that remains to be seen... i don't see how that could happen unless the values spike and they can sell at a higher price " critics believe taxpayers.. will likely never get the best price for aig's assets. "if the 180 billion is ever paid in full.. it will be because the 180 billion in taxpayer money is disguised as profits at aig