So the CEO of AIG, which, in case you’ve forgotten, bent the economy over the banister and sodomized it back in 2008, and then got bailed out by you and me and every other American because they are to big to fail to contribute to politicians re-election campaigns, wrote a whiny op-ed in which he compared outrage over bonuses to em0loyees who lost everyboy’s money to lynching.
Read about it here, if you want to bump your blood pressure up:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/09/24/news/companies/aig-ceo-bonuses/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
So, naturally, I voiced a nostalgia for the sweet rumble of the tumbrill and the guillotine.
Somebody called me on it, accusing me of :”benefiting from Capitalism while hating on capitalists” and told me not to hate him for being rich, because I would love to be rich, or something like that.
So let me make this perfectly clear:
It has NOTHING to do with the fact that he makes a lot of money.
His company, through mismanagement or fraud, depending on whether you feel they were just incompetent or downright criminal, helped to create a financial crisis that sent shockwaves across the economy, screwing you and me and everybody else whose livelihood was effected by that downturn. So he got a GOVERNMENT BAILOUT. That’s us, rescuing them for fucking up the economy.
And instead of saying to their highly paid workers, who were either negligent or criminal, “Hey, guys, we screwed the pooch bad, no six figure bonus this year, until we, y’know, make a profit and pay back the guy whose house got foreclosed on ’cause we suck,” they paid out enormous bonuses. For Failure. So all you Libertarians who scream about the “everyone gets a trophy” mindset ruining society should be outraged that these douchebags got rewarded for doing a shitty job.
I have NO PROBLEM with workers at a company that has a GOOD YEAR getting a bonus. If the company loses a shit ton of OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY, we should say “No! Bad financial weasel! No donut!”
Into the tumbrill with you!
Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite.