"Let them eat cake," she said at the height of the French Revolution, a highly insulting phrase that exposes her naivete about the life of the poor. Living sheltered in a palace, the woman had no idea how terrible the lives of the poor were. She simply thought hey, give them cake and they'll be happy. She didn't understand that people were living on the streets.
And we see it again today as GM CEO's fly their private jets to Washington to demand money and John Thain of Merrill Lynch demands a 10 million dollar bonus.
These men have no clue.
GM CEO's flew to Washington DC a few weeks ago, on a private jet which cost them around $20,000 to fly and they had the audacity to ask for more money. They could have flown coach for around $200-500, about 1/50th of the cost of a private jet. They could have driven for about the same price. I was glad to see the Congress rebuke these CEO's and send them packing until they could come to Washington DC in a more fiscally conservative matter.
And just yesterday, John Thain of Merrill Lynch thought he was worthy of a ten million dollar bonus while people far below him are being laid off. He later withdrew his request for a bonus. In this economy, no one who is a member of a company that is asking for money from the government should be asking for a bonus. I don't care if Thain had single-handedly raised Merrill Lynch from its grave, when people are being laid off, that 10 million dollars is better used to pay the company expenses and perhaps even to try to retain jobs. Mr. Thain, you already have enough money to retire and live more comfortably than any middle-class American. Get the f**k out.
These people are Marie Antoinettes, rich, elite, jack-offs with no idea what the middle and lower classes are going through right now. They claim to want money and then they pull this crap?
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning," Col. Kilroy (Robert Duvall), Apocalypse Now.
J Kuhl Signing Off
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