Obama makes a play on corporate freedom
So, Obama and Geithner publicly decry AIG executive bonuses they effing agreed to allow, and were actually questioned about on March 3rd, one week before they began paying out, whip up a veritable lynch mob against those same executives, and now move to more radical resolution. Sinister and underhanded, just as we’ve come to expect, sadly enough.
Basically, Obama created a media monster himself, blamed it on Geithner, and he’ll now use the public furor to pass legislation regulating executive pay. Importantly, I’m all for regulating pay of bailed out companies, as they owe a debt to the public before all else. However, its clear that he’s going to attempt to pull this off on all companies, despite the very available fact that most companies aren’t going the AIG route. In fact, subchapter S corporations regularly show owners making very little money in thinner years so their business will survive for the better times. Can’t allow that shit, says our action hero/president. Meanwhile, he signed a huge book deal right before taking office. Something tells me the proceeds aren’t going to charity.
Lesson: Its okay for Barack to make money, but not anyone in the corporate world is allowed to. Corporations are evil, and never do any good. They must be stopped by your mother-state government. (There’s a really good Pink Floyd song about Obama’s government called “Mother”. Check it out.)
Its becoming readily apparent to me that Obama is willing to gin up panics and mindless fury for any political agenda he wants to sneak in the back door. What a piss-poor way to treat the citizens and future of this country. I wonder if anyone will be happy they voted for this man before he’s done torching the system and all of capitalism.
Does anyone yet realize that we’d have none of these problems if we just didn’t bail anyone out? Anyone? Think of it: No GM execs begging congress for more and more of OUR money, no AIG exec bonuses, no problems. Geithner and Obama want to say they had to pay exec bonuses because they are contractually obligated, and they are right, unless they go bankrupt! Hey dumbasses, the answer has been here the whole time. They knew that, though. They knew the whole time. It was never the point.
Obama is willing to destroy lives to forward his agenda. Just like Bush was willing to suffer collateral damage in Iraq, Obama is willing to suffer it here economically. The difference, of course, is that one liberates a country, assuming we get our way, while the other simply gives the guvamint even more power over our lives as it destroys retirements and nesteggs. What a fucking tradeoff. If I destroy his teleprompter, will he not know to do these horrible things? Might be worth the chance.
