XOM currently is valued at approx 100X the value of AIG (as an example). This headline therefore would be comparable to "AIG Chairman gets retirement package worth $3.98 million dollars"-you won't see that headline-even the traders that wrecked the company would laugh at such a trivial sum. Why do you think XOM is worth so much-one of the reasons is that management has resisted the temptation to gut the company as the financials have been gutted.

That "Trivial Sum" is more than both my parents made over their entire working lives.

Some trivia, eh?