Seriously, Americans need to chill.

The battle between the rich and the poor, the ruling and the ruled: the Showdown in... Connecticut!!
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I just found this article on New York Times, about the A.I.G. executives...

The Connecticut Working Families' Party is planning a bus tour of executives' homes. This behavior is just appalling. Wilton, CT is at the center of the A.I.G. bonus controversy and now that I think about it, this is so what angry white people would do. It's absurd. People are taking time out of their day to go sit at executives' homes to wait for them to come home and then yell at them. And let's not forget, we still don't know who even got the bonuses.

The guy running the bus tour said that his goal is to "...give folks in Bridgeport and Hartford and other parts of Connecticut who are struggling and losing their homes and their jobs and their health insurance an opportunity to see what kinds of lifestyle billions of dollars in credit-default swaps can buy." Are. You. Serious. So, c'mon guys, let's all go wallow in self pity and lament all the things we don't have, this will be fun. The sanity of New England upper crust is clearly crumbling.

Look, these executives, I agree, should not receive those bonuses. But on the flip side, imagine if that were your job. If you had watched your company disintegrate like that, um, you'd probably not want to stay there. You probably would have needed some convincing. If you were to stick to your principles, that would mean changing your life completely, because there remain few financial powerhouses for you to work at. And, one night, while imagining your children having to give up what they have, you decide to screw your principles. Because what's $6 million out of $170 billion?

Give them a fucking break. They are stupid, middle-aged men who are consumed by luxury and/or greed. But they are still men with families, men with basic human flaws. They are not infallible, none of us are. In a different world, the CT Working Families could have been the ones on top. Let the government take care of it.

You are wasting your fucking time touring their homes and bemoaning what you do not have; this gets nothing done. Looking at Mrs. Executive's Chanel collection does not mean you win it because you weren't lucky enough to marry money. Pointing out CEO #1's pool means nothing except you are a pretty bitter person.

Please, people, keep in mind that everyone is suffering. Consider doing something more proactive with your time. Bake cookies for your children. Instead of hosting a bus tour of gated suburban communities, I mean, Angelina Jolie gets paid $20 million a movie, why don't we get tours of her obscenely large mansion(s)? Instead of making death threats to a few men who have very little to do with your life, call the PTA to bitch out the teacher that keeps giving your kid B-'s. Go back to your old ways and go back to being nervous white people who don't talk to one another.

Besides, when rich people get scared of angry poor/screwed over people, they hire security. And that security costs even more money, being paid for by the corporations, which are being sustained by taxpayers' money. Poor/screwed people being actively angry just wastes everybody's time. Stop acting like children, forgive these insensitive men and go on with your fucking day.

Deal with the problems you have. Stop whining.