Public Pain, Private Gain

What have we learned from 8 years of Bush, the economic crisis, the poorly planned bailout, etc.? Power insulates you from responsibility for your actions. Latest proof: AIG bonuses.

Consequences are for losers.

Basically, that is the essence of the platform of the GOP. What's sad, really, is that we seem to do so many things to distract ourselves from recognizing the truth. Oh sure, our politics and mass media do their best to pretend that the world is otherwise, but reasonably smart people figure it out. But too many of us just don't want to deal with the reality that capitalism is a form of organized crime on a global scale.