"U.S. Plans $500,000 Cap on Executive Pay in Bailouts"

“That is pretty draconian — $500,000 is not a lot of money, particularly
if there is no bonus,” said James F. Reda, founder and managing
director of James F. Reda & Associates, a compensation consulting
firm. “And you know these companies that are in trouble are not going
to pay much of an annual dividend.”

Mr. Reda said only a handful
of big companies pay chief executives and other senior executives
$500,000 or less in total compensation. He said such limits will make
it hard for the companies to recruit and keep executives, most of whom
could earn more money at other firms.

“It would be really tough
to get people to staff” companies that are forced to impose these
limits, he said. “I don’t think this will work.”

Are you fucking serious? Like really fucking serious? You filthy, dirty motherfuckers. You realize that most people in America would kill for a $500,000 SALARY, never mind a $500,000 BONUS!

 My old man, who's worked his ass off since he was a kid, grew up in a shithole one room apartment heated in a kerosene stove in New Fucking England, went to Columbia and now works as a telecommunications engineer, takes care of my sick mom, and works his ass off for $100,000 per year. And now these silver spoon motherfuckers are freaking out about getting "only" $500,000?! 

This is insanity. And the fact that these people believe that they're entitled to millions of dollars in a year where millions of jobs disappeared, the entire market has collapsed, and the entire planet has been plunged into a global depression due to the collapse of the American mortgage market only furthers my belief that these sons of bitches are completely disconnected from anything even remotely resembling reality.

Fuck them. Up the revolution.

From: http://www.buffalobeast.com/134/50mostloathsome2008-full.html

20. Joe the Plumber

Charges: The Che Guevara of bald, pissed off white men.
In a lot of ways, Samuel Wurzelbacher really does represent the average
American—basing economic opinions on unrealistic expectations of personal
future success, blaming his failure to meet those expectations on minorities
and old people, complaining about deadbeats getting his taxes when he
isn’t actually paying his taxes, and advertising his own rudimentary historical
and mathematical ignorance by warning of creeping socialism in a country
whose highest income tax rate has dropped by half in thirty years. “Joe”
indeed symbolizes the true American dream—to become undeservedly rich
and famous through a dizzyingly improbable stroke of luck. As American
folk heroes go, Wurzelbacher ranks somewhere between Hulk Hogan and Bernie
Goetz.

Exhibit A: "Social Security is a joke...social security
I've never believed in, don't like it. I hate that it's forced on me."

Sentence: After blowing his fifteen minutes and all his
money on coke and Thai hookers, an infirm, elderly Joe finds that social
security actually is a joke, and is finally forced to snake toilets
for a living.