Pollywogs!

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/12/

It's no wonder the federal government did not want to release details for a year, because once again, it's all handouts to Big Oil who set new records in profitability while sticking the middle class with the bill. Good grief, can we re-set priorities and worry about the middle class again and quit giving more welfare and handouts to the richest?

If Exxon can give half a billion dollars to the CEO, I see no reason why taxpayers should have to fund their business since they seem to be doing pretty well without taxpayer handouts. These are not small companies who need help to get started, but very mature companies who bathe their executives with lavish compensation packages and then pass on the bill to governments around the world, rich and poor alike. I don't know what is worse between them asking or governments actually giving over the money.

I tried writing something insightful about corporations, compensation, the working class, the government and taxes, but I couldn't seem to get anywhere.  I'm sure you know it all already…one thing:  consider extravagant compensation.  At what point does it go from absurd to criminal?  Does such a point exist?  By compensating one individual to the point of a half a billion dollars for a single year, are you literally stealing money from thousands upon thousands of other people?  Should it be considered in that fashion, for society to be fair, equitable and just?