Who deserves bonuses?
Any teacher who inspires a student to love learning, any hardworking volunteer at homeless shelters, soup kitchens, EMT crews -- not to mention police officers and fire fighters -- the little league coach who plays the fat, uncoordinated kid even if it means blowing a game, Sully and his entire flight crew, single moms who work two jobs to raise their kids and send them to college, and a bevy of others...
Who doesn't deserve bonuses?
Any of the already overpaid geniuses at AIG who got us into this mess and their other Wall St. bretheren, Alex Rodriguez and Roger Clemens (not for lying or giving themselves an unfair advantage, but for what it says to the kids of the world), and, last but not least, any member of the 2008 Detroit Lions.
The only good thing that come out of this Wall St. crisis is that it is underscoring the unfair disequibilbrium of income and wealth in this society, exposing a skewed system of wealth "entitlement," and is driving a new wave of populist revolt that might just change things for the better long term.
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