Justice

The recent bailouts for the private sector, both individual and corporate, will give additional pause to anyone who thinks playing by the rules is to their benefit. Those of us who have lived within our means will subsidize those who have not. Companies that made well reasoned fiscal decisions will be subsidizing those who could not compete. What are we to make of a government that rewards incompetence and greed? The best conclusion is that the government itself is incompetent and greedy and sees nothing wrong with those actions in others and actually seeks to perpetuate their malice. The managers and executives at AIG and other financial institutions have benefited from their short-sightedness and have not been punished for it. Before their dubious lending practices failed, they received and have kept their bonuses and inflated salaries. When the financial markets recover, the incompetent will rise again to visit their avarice on those of us who d0 our fiscal duty. Like the marauders of Genghis Khan, they will acquire wealth from the labors of others. They are protected by like-minded politicians. We will support their avarice until there are there are no resources to plunder. The only alternatives are to join the corrupt or live in poverty.