Thinking

By: L Jones

WTF AIG?

The country’s financial foundation is crumbling. US citizens are losing jobs, money, homes and patience.  Who’s to blame? So many things are the blame, but AIG has the misfortune of being one of the faces associated with the country’s current financial woes. AIG’s alleged mismanagement and poor financial decisions has placed the company in the center of country’s resentment bull’s eye.

Fast forward to now; after the billions of tax-payer’s dollars to “bail-out” one of the country’s leading insurance companies; in a sense insuring the company’s future. MILLION DOLLAR plus bonuses. Ok, I understand that companies give their employees bonuses when the company turns a profit. Why the hell are employees of a failing company getting million dollar plus bonuses?

Edward M. Liddy, Chairman and CEO of AIG, wrote a letter offering the reason for the decisions and plans for the future. Click here if you’d like to read the letter. It’s a good read. He pretty much says that the decision to pay the bonuses was approved sometime last year, when he was not in power.  All I’m saying is, you are in power now. Those bonuses should have been revoked. All the higher ups need to be replaced and AIG needs to start earning their keep or be dismantled. That’s just what I think.

What do you think?

By: L Jones

Now, when I saw the monkey with the two bullet holes in its chest and the caption on the comic, which suggested the monkey was representing President Obama, I was a bit deterred. I listened as the media and other bloggers attempted to spray perfume on the “shit” that cartoonist Sean Delonas had thrown at the faces of bewildered African Americans. I grinned as I heard the excuses; it was a parody of the monkey that attacked the woman. Well, for one thing, that’s a pretty serious and personal incident in it self to exploit, but secondly, what the hell did that monkey have to do with writing the stimulus?

Now, in a Barnes and Noble window display, we see books about the President of the United States of America and his wife. In the middle of those books is a book about a damn monkey. Come on. Are you serious? What’s the excuse this time?

Now, I know that this does not represent the views of an entire race, hell, it could have been an African American that did it, trying to get something started (that’s a built in excuse, if you need one). All I know is, we need to end this historically tragic racial divide. Together, we are so much stronger. We are so much better. Will someone please light the flame beneath the pot, so that we may once and for all, melt?

By: L Jones

I was driving home from work today, when I heard the radio station celebrity soliciting for people to call in and respond to the New York Post printing of a political cartoon. I didn’t know what they were talking about, but everyone who called in were pretty irate about it. I kept listening as they talked with a black caller from northern Florida and white female from Virginia. They mentioned terms like, blatant racism and hatred and treason. “What were they talking about?” I wondered.

“New York Post publishes picture of a monkey with two bullet holes in his chest with two police standing over the monkey saying…”, well you can see the picture. My first reaction was of curiosity, not anger. What is the point of getting angry? Every country in the world knows how infected the United States is with racism; and with a black president at the helm for the first time, I didn’t expect anything less.

I question how the cartoon was published in the first place by such a major newspaper? What were they trying to accomplish? What I do know is that the marriage between the many nationalities of this great nation is once again estranged. The only question is will there be a bitter divorce?