American Royality

Why are corporate big wigs for some reason treated as royalty? Am I the only one who remembers that the reason that our economy is in the current shitty state is because of them? Seems like everywhere I look I see the GOP falling all over itself to defend these asshats. We can't take back the bonus checks. They EARNED those. Never mind the fact that many of them are at the helm of companies that they helped pilot straight into the ground. Telling them that since they came to the government with hat in hand, asked for, and received money that they now have to start playing by some different rules, well that's just fucking un-American!

People also need to learn what socialism is and stop acting like it means anything that isn't designed to give companies even more profits. Take my work for instance. We have 30 guys laid off right now. This forced me back to what we call the extra board. That is the call me when they need me, basically it's an on call kinda of thing. Now one of the things that goes along with this is what is called a short rest. That's where say I work from 7 to 4, I can be called back out to come and work at 12pm that night after only 8 hours sleep. They have been doing this A LOT for about the last month. However, they REFUSE to bring any of those 30 guys back. They say that this short resting has nothing to do with the lay offs and the business really isn't up enough to justify bringing any of them back. Fucking could have fooled me though. Seems the business is up, and you do need some guys back, otherwise I wouldn't have to be coming out on shortrests and worrying about short resting all the time.

Basically big companies in this country piss me off if you haven't gathered. Personally, I think if they want to cry socialism all the time then lets give it to them. I say effect immeaditly all companies above a certian size in this country are hereby heavily regulated by the government. Workers pay, healthcare benefits, what their profit margins are allowed to be. All of that should be controled by the government for a period of lets say 2 years. Lets show them real socialism, and that GASP it works in certain situations. Though I suppose Europe shouldn't count.