Do you think we could dispense with calling America "the Homeland"?
Thank you.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
A taste of how the other half lives
In the Slate blog "The XX Factor," Kerry Howley reports on the ongoing problem of failed companies' using government bailout money for executive bonuses and other questionable expenses. In the matter of Citigroup's decision to buy a Sub-Zero refrigerator, Howley writes the wonderful sentence,
"But when you accept heaps of the public's money, you agree to run your company in constant fear of what is derisively referred to as 'populist outrage.'"
Populist outrage, they call it. I hope that some of these execs, undergoing the public scrutiny that comes with this corporate welfare program, feel just a little of the shame that a mother is made to feel when she goes to the grocery store and has to pay with a handful of food stamps.
"But when you accept heaps of the public's money, you agree to run your company in constant fear of what is derisively referred to as 'populist outrage.'"
Populist outrage, they call it. I hope that some of these execs, undergoing the public scrutiny that comes with this corporate welfare program, feel just a little of the shame that a mother is made to feel when she goes to the grocery store and has to pay with a handful of food stamps.
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