The free enterprise system at work!
It’s the majesty of the free market at work; all you need to do is get a reputation for reliable graft with enough congressmen, and if anything looks like it might threaten your collection of gold-filled swimming pools, all you need to do is snap your fingers and our capitalist government will whip open the taxpayer’s pocketbook and, in a truly bipartisan fashion, make sure that all of the poor CEOs will have their owies made all better.
But if you’re just a taxpayer, you can go pound sand. Hoi polloi are not welcome into the halls of government, because they don’t bribe the right people or throw the right parties. You voted, so shut up and let your betters ensure that the rich will never have to worry about the consequences of their incompetent behavior.
–image via bikelovejones