Mr Bob and I were talking the other day how we can get a lot more money. Mr Bob was thinking that we could possibly take jobs as guard dogs, but who would take a Greyhound seriously as a guard dog. I though that I could be a super model, but it is so hard to wear those spike heals on four legs. But the more we thought about it we figured we need to be CEO’s of some big company and get a fantastic bonus for really screwing up a company.
When you figure that than 7,600 employees of failed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac received more than 210 million dollars in bonuses. The people who screwed up Merrill Lynch got to go on grand vacations at the Ritz-Carlton. Don’t even get us started on AIG, GM, Ford and the scores of other companies who CEO’s and/or Board of Directors have driven good companies into the ground.
Sounded good until I looked up the definition of bonus and found that it means:
bo⋅nus/ˈboʊnəs/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [boh-nuhs] Show IPA
-noun, plural -nus⋅es.
1. something given or paid over and above what is due.
2. a sum of money granted or given to an employee, a returned soldier, etc., in addition to regular pay, usually in appreciation for work done, length of service, accumulated favors, etc.
3. something free, as an extra dividend, given by a corporation to a purchaser of its securities.
4. a premium paid for a loan, contract, etc.
5. something extra or additional given freely: Every purchaser of a pound of coffee received a box of cookies as a bonus.
Origin: 1765-75; < L: good
Synonyms:
1. reward, honorarium, gift. 2. Bonus, bounty, premium refer to something extra beyond a stipulated payment. A bonus is a gift to reward performance, paid either by a private employer or by a government: a bonus based on salary; a soldiers’ bonus. A bounty is a public aid or reward offered to stimulate interest in a specific purpose or undertaking and to encourage performance: a bounty for killing wolves. A premium is usually something additional given as an inducement to buy, produce, or the like: a premium received with a magazine subscription.
Well, that doesn’t sound like somethings that those scoundrels deserved. We think it sounds more like greed and total disregard for the rest of the employees of the company or the tax payers of the United States. On the other hand, we bet that most member of Congress deserve a bonus also. Only they don’t always call them bonuses. They call it graft, which most of them are well versed in.
Perhaps there should be a requirement that anyone seeking public office undergo a complete and public audit of their tax returns going back seven years. This of course would be just so they wouldn’t be embarrassed when they got elected. We wonder how many of the serving members of Congress could pass such an order.
Of course, as usual, cartoonist say it best:
How to get a bonus.
Hope ya’ll have a great weekend now ya hear,
Ms Fran & Mr Bob
Hell, we would start with entire House and Senate, then work down to the lawyers. Get rid of all of them. We only hope that the American people will remember names like Frank, Dodd, Pelosi, Geithner, Reid and the rest of the bottom feeding Liberal Socialist.
