All Right, I'll Get Mad, Too: AIG Gives Bonuses After Getting Bailout

Now, I almost decided to not blog on this. It's obvious, and
Americans are plenty pissed about this story, already. It's utter
horseshit and everyone knows it.

The thing is, I think this points to another disturbing trend:

For the last 8 years, government proved itself completely unreliable as a leadership structure for the average American citizen and now, big business is proving the same thing true about itself, too.

There are some who actually believe corporations need less regulation--but I can't imagine how the completely corruptionist behavior of even a few bad apples suggests that complete deregulation would work. It would likely result in a complete and utter breakdown of society.

Now, I've been wrong before, but I can't help but see a system that would give itself rewards where none are deserved is, by definition, letting everyone else down.

Corporations were originally intended to benefit humanity, not be put in front of humanity. Now, people like me struggle to find work and make enough money to survive with while these assholes on Wall Street think they deserve adequate compensation for the efforts that have, in part, helped sink the American economy.

People like me did nothing to help destroy our economy yet they're getting "retention payments" according to the CNN article capped above. RETENTION payments.

Tell me, WHY would any business want to retain fuckheads who make choices so immensely WRONG that they destroy the American economy?? Just THINK about that for a moment.

"We don't want to lose our staff of greedy bastards so we pay them bonuses to keep them from finding work elsewhere."

YOU ARE ON CRACK, HYPOTHETICAL SIR!

Now we learn that We, The People, are not even getting stimulus checks. Instead we're getting tax cuts! How will that benefit people who have been out of stable work for longer than a year?

Now our government spends more on bailing out businesses than they do on cancer research.

So, while big businesses make choices that endanger our health, ruin our economies, squelch rights and are otherwise shitty to us regular folks, we keep buying their shit, keeping our money in their banks and otherwise propping up their asses.

I'd love to have someone give me one good reason why the current system of corporations and government should not be replaced.

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