So, one of the complaints I hear voiced about the pay/bonus issue of the AIG bailout is that it's necessary to keep the "best and the brightest" to navigate AIG through the recovery process.
I've tried to keep the profanity down on the new and improved Loud Loft . . . but #$%&@#$!!!!! It's the "best and brightest" who got AIG into this mess. I have a niece who is a SAHM with two small children. She's got a college degree, worked as a teacher for a few years before the kiddos came along and I would rather give her $250,000 a year and let her work part time from home and let these "best and brightest" go sell phones from a kiosk at the mall.
I mean seriously, I trust her a lot more than these people living in a bubble in Connecticut. She will behave much more responsibly than these parasites who live off the people who actually do contribute to the economy.
Maybe it's time to recalibrate the pay scale of these positions. It's clear that in this instance something is very, very, very wrong. If we do end up with tighter regulations, more government oversigtht and the attendant beaucracy that goes along with all that - it will only because of the unbounded greed of pariahs like these who are the worst examples of free trade, capitalism and "letting the market find it's level" in my life time.
And if my niece doesn't want the job, my other niece has a twelve year old daughter who's perfect for the job . . . like she could do worse.
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