Tuesday, October 07, 2008
'That's it - STORM THE BASTILLE! '
The right-wing Armchair Gen. Savin Hill has had it:
Update -- The revolution is already starting to eat its own. In an email exchange, I told the Armchair General that if mobs confronted me, I'd have to point out that he actually makes more money than me. To which the general responded, " and I'll say: 'Wait! You don't want me! There's an executive vice president in the neighborhood' ..."
The right-wing Armchair Gen. Savin Hill has had it:
I just heard that AIG executives, one week after the taxpayer bailout of $85 BILLION, went on a "retreat" to a luxury spa and racked up a bill of more than $400,000.We'll hunt 'em down all the way to their Vermont cheese farms! ...
That's it - STORM THE BASTILLE! To the ramparts comrades! Drag the rotten "royalty" of American society (CEOs) out from behind their 18-seat kitchen islands and throw them to the guillotine!
Of course we can't really do that, but we can do the next best thing: financially decapitate them by capping CEO pay. You know what a rock-bottomed conservative I am, but this is the last straw. Prior "captains of industry" actually accomplished things. These bastards just game the system with their cronies and walk away. ...
(Please remember me when the Robespierres start accusing the petite-bourgeoise like me of complicity that I called the loudest for the heads of the CEOs.)
Update -- The revolution is already starting to eat its own. In an email exchange, I told the Armchair General that if mobs confronted me, I'd have to point out that he actually makes more money than me. To which the general responded, " and I'll say: 'Wait! You don't want me! There's an executive vice president in the neighborhood' ..."
