AIG Bonuses and Muscle Building?

So what does all the hoopla about the AIG bonuses have to do with muscle building or fitness?

Nothing on the surface, but think about it this way:

Whether you are management or blue collar oriented, the PEOPLE that got the bonuses had a legal contract stating they were due them. How did they get that contract? Well really it doesn't matter from a legal perspective, but in fact most got them when they hired in and had earned them because of past successes in their careers.

So because AIG received bail out money everybody seems to think that they shouldn't receive them, because it's being paid with "taxpayer" money (the people getting the money are taxpayers to you know, so it's already as much their money as yours, and by the way, do you know ANYBODY in their position that would have turned the bonuses down?).

Now the government has decided that they are not "entitled" to the money and has levied a 90% tax against the recipients of the bonus money. Everybody cheers!

Okay.

I am going to run for congress and if I win you know what I am going to do?

Once Obama gets his national health care system established, every person receiving health care will be getting it with "taxpayer" money, whether they pay taxes or not. And since we will have established that some people getting things with taxpayer money (though legally entitled) isn't "right" or "fair" I, as a congressman will push for a 90% tax on health benefits received by everybody who is out of shape, unhealthy because of a lack of fitness and can't bench press their body weight. I am going to do this because why should you receive more health benefits than me? I have decided that because I take fitness seriously so MUST you.

If you are going to let the government decide who is and is not "entitled" to things because it's being funded with "taxpayer" money, you better hope the people running the government don't decide that you as a overweight, lazy, TV watching coach potato aren't entitled to "extra" health care.

There is so much wrong with people's attitudes right now it's hard to know where to start to fix things.

How about, responsibility, accountability and consequence. Let people keep what they have earned.