Bailing Out The Millionaires?

I just keep thinking about this... the U.S. government is, at this very moment, working on a plan to bail out Wall Street. I've got a very simple plan that would save all of us poor shmucks who pay our taxes and who will have to pay for these millionaires to keep doing what so clearly didn't work before. It's hard to have sympathy for a guy who probably takes a helicopter to work from his mansion, but there are plenty of regular joes who work in the financial industry, and they'll suffer at least as much as the rest of us while the guys at the top go on like nothing happened. It's the regular joes who will end up losing jobs and health insurance.

So here's my plan to fix the mess: fire all the executives on Wall Street and in the financial companies the government is trying to bail out who make more than a million dollars a year. You wouldn't have to get rid of many of them to make a difference. Let these guys work at a minimum wage retail job, lose their homes, cars and health insurance and then let's see how they like it.

This would save the U.S. government millions of dollars right away. Then, just like we've established a minimum wage, let's have a maximum wage for financial industry executives. I know that at my job, you can work up to a certain amount per hour and when you reach it, that's as much as you'll get. Do that for the big dogs! I don't care about any other industry, but when it comes to the people holding your life savings, your pension or retirement fund, your investment portfolio that you've scrimped and saved for, and your mortgage, they damned well better not screw up so massively in the name of greed that our economy is in danger of collapsing. So don't pay the guys who did this incredible amounts of money so they can keep screwing up at the expense of the rest of us, who are just about making ends meet if we're lucky.

Do I think this is what will actually happen? Not really.

And Now For A Bit Of Irony, OR One More Reason Concerned Vegetarians Are Annoying

Remember Squeaky the piglet? I saw the image originally on this website. So I looked for the original article to refer you to, and found that plus this follow-up. Or should I call it a foul-up?

If you put lipstick on a pig...

but it's a darn cute one! My apologies to Ross Parry, who took this beautiful picture of the cutest piglet ever. Just thought one more person should overuse the phrase. You just can't have enough redundancy and repetition in an election, can you? Now, if we could only teach Squeaky to do the beauty queen wave, live in a small town, finally graduate from college after trying five different ones, all mediocre unheard-of colleges, run for local town mayor, get pissed off and fire or threaten to fire anyone perceived as a threat, help then deny helping building one or two bridges to nowhere, support then accuse Ted Stevens, run for governor of a small isolated state, then feel utterly qualified to run for second in command of the United States because she can see Russia from her house, THEN we'd really have something! Now wait a minute, that sounds awfully familiar...

What's going on, America?

Is this really what we want running the country if McCain blew a gasket while in office if he were president? Geez, I hope not! Hmmm, crazy Christian fundamentalist joins a guy with a lousy temper who shoots his mouth off, decides things impulsively and calls his wife the "c" word on national television? What a diplomatic core! These two could set America back about 1oo years. The whole world would be laughing at us. Oh wait, they're doing that already. Go Bush, yeah. At least Reagan had Alzheimer's as a reason to want to live in the 1950's again. What's Palin's excuse? I think I'd much prefer Michael Palin. Too bad he's not a citizen.