I note with great interest that the people screaming for the most blood are the very same members of congress who could not take the time to read and understand just what they were voting for... They
admitted that they were surprised that this issue of executive compensation and bonuses was not covered in the bill that they just voted for! I note too, that the silence from Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid is quite deafening... could it be that they know that in forcing the vote on what is most probably the single most important piece of economic legislation in our history, in less than the
promised five days, they are directly responsible for yet another screw up...
Get over it, the damage has been done, the bonuses, that is if they are in fact bonuses and not commissions, have been legally paid; and, if enacted, this latest waste of our time and money by congress will most likely be proven unconstitutional... Hopefully the president will have the will power to use his veto powers, saving us the cost of taking it to the Supreme Court... Let's see now, "you" work for XYZ Widget Company, have done a great job, "you" have an employment contract calling for incentive pay whenever you meet or exceed your quotas and the company paid you a handsome bonus... but then the company files for bankruptcy... the creditor's ask the bankruptcy judge to invalidate your contract and order that you return the bonus... do you believe that you ought to be compelled to return it?... I didn't think so, you have a valid contract, right...
I note too that the public, which in 60% of the case is too damned lazy... too taken up with American Idol and Survivor... too busy Twittering and “Facebooking” to put down the remote or cell phone and vote... even too damned lazy and disengaged to pick up a pencil and fill in an absentee ballot... to damned lazy to write to their members of congress (it's OK folks, Word has spell check)... and then, when the media tells them too, they wake up and start screaming... please, either start paying attention... get involved... see to it that this sort of gross negligence on the part of congress doesn't happen again... or else do as YOUR member of congress fully expects you to do... sit down, shut up, go back to your reality television programs and enjoy this "E Ticket" ride that they have placed us on...
A dolt is a person who consistently screws things up... now, think of congress... but in continually returning these mostly inept people to their seats in the capitol, without any real scrutiny on our part, are we not doing the same thing, screwing up!... In failing to participate in the electoral process... in failing to do our jobs as citizens and provide oversight of our elected officials (at every level) we are getting just what “we the people” asked for... the finest government that the Sierra Club, NRA, Oil, Farm, Wall Street, Banking, Insurance, Union, "Widget" or any other special interest lobby can buy… even a three year old learns not to put its hand in the fire twice...
