I say USE ANY Bailout as LEVERAGE to REQUIRE*:
1) Federal Audits of bailed out companies, with criminal investigations where warranted,
2) Criminal charges are to be brought, as the evidence may warrant, no matter how up the
food chain the crooks are (including complicit Bush Federal employees).
3) Outlawing outlandish CEO compensation packages, golden parachutes, and/or bonuses; and
instead all compensation to ALL employees is locked into a Federally mandated floor-to-ceiling
ratio of $1 to $10, i.e. for every ONE dollar the janitor gets, the CEO can only earn no more
than 10 times that; and everyone else obviously gets something in between.
*If said company doesn't like these terms, then they can opt to be nationalized and
turned into a worker-owned/controlled enterprise, with the technical support of Big Labor
and hired management.
Fuck these corporate give-aways!!
These rat-bastards won't be happy until they've utterly milked the US taxpayers to death,
both figuratively and literally, to the point of bankrupting the nation beyond the point
of no return; which effectively puts an ever-tightening noose around the Obama Administration's
neck, which achieves several ReThug objectives:
1) These bail-outs are milking us "rubes" for everything, absolutely everything we
have, or thought we had, and then some... to line the greedy pockets of the "have-mores"
on their way out the door. The worse for the Obama Administration, the better, at least
in their view. In other words, "fuck the country".
2) Renders ALL "entitlement programs" (such as Social Security, Medicare, HUD, etc.)
as low hanging fruit ripe for the picking for further bail-outs; and don't even
ask about Health Care Reform, or middle-class/low-income tax cuts, etc. or you'll
be laughed out of the room.
3) Having made a laughing stock of the Obama Administrations "pipe dreams" Health Care
reform, "green alternative energy" inititatives, etc., they will try to use this (w/ much
help from the M$M) to win back lost seats in Congress in 2010, and then to have a shot at
the WH in 2012.
Mark my words. This is the biggest reason in my book that Obama's GOT to "GO BIG",
and forcefully demand a halt to this grand-scale heist, because that's really the ONLY
way Obama will EVER have a prayer of delivering on his campaign promises. "The people:
voted for real change, for change that matters to real people, real people who vote.
Please Barack. GO BIG! at least on this one issue, as it's the linchpin to everything
else. ... the sooner the better.