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Rewarding ineptitude

Thu., March 19, 2009

The Spokesman-Review

Please help me understand. I have a company and I agreed to pay my executives millions of dollars in bonuses, but my company isn’t doing well under their tutelage and is about to fold.

Alas, if we fold, no one will get bonuses. But, along comes government and gives me money which hasn’t even been printed yet. Now, we momentarily survive and I am able to pay my executives the fantastic bonuses they deserve for how well they ran my company.

Is that correct? What a wonderful government.

Ray Cory

Spokane Valley

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