Is only for po' folks.
Yup.
That is correct. Dr Prole posted at our place about the $18 Billion in bonuses handed out to Management of some of those huge corporations after they received the taxpayer funded bailout. Claire McCaskill nailed it. But I have been pondering another point.
We are facing many of the same challenges in Canada, things are crashing around us too, and jobs are disappearing at an alarming rate. Corporate Canada is standing there with their hands out too, for tax breaks. The automakers have their hat in hand.
If you or I had done things to cause a company we worked for to lose money...We wouldn't get no fricking bonus. Now would we? You or I would be shown the door toot sweet honey. A bonus? In my universe bonuses are given to employees for a job well done. In most people's universes, that is how it works.
So I have to ask this question.....Is that what they did? They did what was expected of them? They really didn't screw up in the eyes of the corporate gods. They caused the crash of the US, and probably permanently formed the grand chasm that was needed to keep the rich SUPER rich, and the poor super poor. Now didn't they? The feudal system needs a couple things:
Very poor desperate people who don't have any other options.
Very poor desperate people who own nothing, so they must be beholden to the masters of the manor.
And, very super rich people who own the land that the peons can scrabble on so the masters can dictate all terms.
I have called Neoliberalism a successful disaster before, I still think that was hitting the nail right on the head.
So all those bonuses? In the eyes of our corporate overlords are a reward for a job that is very well done.
I know some may say this is a tad conspiracy theory-ish. But in the end nothing else makes any sense at all.
This Stimulus budget thingy this week in Canada that the conservatives put out, (Thanks to our buddy Dr Frink for that linky) and the Liberals are sucking back like cold beer, is just more of the same policies that have brought the US to this precipice.
Trickle down? DOES NOT EXIST. Hiring a gardener and a maid and buying shoes made in Italy? That's what those rich folks all say is going to SAVE the economy. Total crap.
So to alllllllllllllllllll you non-rich conservatives here in Canada? You are just about to get fucked up the a** like the rest of us. Get used to it. At least I can say I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO.
You, just have the ultimate personal responsibility of being the tool of your own demise. Sucks to be you.
This was posted at A Creative Revolution earlier today, I added some informational links for this version.