Home Grown Socialism !!!

There seems to be a bad trend arising. It started with the bail-outs of our financial systems, then it grew when our government poured billions into the auto industries. Now it seems to be coming home. It’s the result of how we look at other peoples wealth, I’d even go as far as to say it’s based on envy.

What exactly is my point? It’s our prying into what the corporate executives receive as compensation. When A.I.G. was found to be paying hundreds of millions in bonuses to their executives, people started screaming bloody murder. The bonus contracts were not known to the general populous but, they were known to the treasury department. These are the same people who put the deal together in the first place. Next G.M. and Chrysler were going to congress with hands out reached, telling there tale of troubled times. No sooner did they get there to testify and people started screaming about there use of corporate jets. Then when they got close to getting the money that congress had approved, people once again started hollering about the money that the executives make every year, not to mention the bonus’ they receive. Now, closer to home, people started moaning and complaining about the rate the local power company charges for there service. Followed by what seems to be an uproar about what the executives make in this industry. What next? Are we going to make a big ruckus as to how much the people who run the oil companies make? Then what? Are we going to watch for the food industries executives? Perhaps we will hound the insurance industries (as a supposed way to save money), or even the cable companies.

I think these are the luxuries we’ve taken from just that luxury, and have started calling necessities. So now they’re necessities, we complain that the people who provide them are greedy. We show no appreciation for the long hours that the executives must put in. When most of us do nothing more then work forty hours a week, and complain about how we will find time, when there are still one hundred and twenty eight hours left in the week. No the average executive works seventy to one hundred hours a week. Often they spend large amounts of time far away from their families.

The thing that scares me about this is, how we the people seem to be asking for socialism! We are demanding that the people who work the hardest pay more then their share of tax, and demanding that our leaders provide us with more luxuries (that we’ll call necessities). Tell me that is not socialism! Even worse tell me it’s not our own making.