Nice post. I heard Obama saying we should not reward poor performance by executives.
It begs the question - why don’t we apply the same standard to government executives?
Our government debt makes corporate losses look trivial so using his standard what should a congressman make?
They should make tracks for HOME. (FReeper metmom has as her tagline "Welfare was never meant to be a career choice." The same goes DOUBLE for politics -- the rise of the class of political clowns and hacks was not foreseen by the Founding Fathers, so they did not put up checks and balances against it.)
My new name for Obama is "President Barack Hussein Pinata"TM and the name for this new bill is "Pork and Awe"TM.
I had thought of writing that the new stimulus bill is Trickle-Down recovery, last week and I see today that Karl Rove wrote much the same thing in the Wall Street Journal.
Ah well, at least I'm not getting pressured to anwer Capitol Hill subpoenas, right?
Cheers!