Welcome to the USSR

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I'm not too up to date on current events so feel free to flame me if any of this is irrelevant, but the fact of the matter is, if a business needs to rely on the government to stay afloat, doesn't that mean it's giving the government the final say-so? It's almost like an adoption, really.

Besides, how fair is it that mismanagement be rewarded by billions of dollars in bailout money, and the same manager that ran the company into the ground gets a fabulous cash prize?

I'm not looking at the bigger picture because, if Right Wing Talk Radio is to be believed, looking at the bigger picture leads to endless slippery slope fallacies (Look at this AIG stuff OMG communism!!111) So I look at it like, why should my taxes go to a company that's going to sink anyway? If a CEO gets a golden parachute, let it be for competence, not because we opened up our wallets to throw them a lifesaver.