Ranting at the Wind-fall

I believe in Socialism but I believe it should move in more than one direction. You and I and every other taxpayer in America now own a part of the recent financial problems but none of us got to share in the profits. The bail out of AIG shows that the good 'ol US of A is not above working on a socialist system to help huge, multinational, faceless conglomerates but it rankles at helping real people. It'll spend billions upon billions backing a failing company that is destined for complete failure (mark my words) but will not consider funding schools, welfare programs or even social and community initiatives.

Why don't we get to own a portion of the good times, just the bad? What makes it my responsibility to pay off the debts of these fiscally irresponsible corporations when they did nothing to help me? Nobody in the government would ever propose that these assholes share their gains with all of us but our government is willing to make all of us share in their corporate losses.

McCain and the rest of the "fiscally conservative" geniuses say a windfall tax on these companies (like big oil) would be a detriment to our economy. They say that taxing the rich will drive us bankrupt, but when these companies mismanage themselves beyond repair and they go bankrupt who is left holding their sizzling stick of dynamite? When the poor and middle class have nothing left to give, then what? Who does the "government of the people, by the people, for the people" really work for?