Short diary, and I'm pretty sure someone has suggested this before, but after reading BuffaloGirl's beautifully articulated diary, a thought sprang to mind on how to punish all these Wall Street morons who tanked our economy by never learning how to live on the cheap:
They all need to take a lesson from Mel Brooks...Life Stinks.
"Life Stinks" is the name of movie wherein Brooks plays a ruthless CEO - who honestly is tame compared to these #$*%ers who sinkholed our money, but whatever - who wants to buy a wretchedly poor area of land in Los Angeles, so he can naturally raze it and rebuild glorious capitalism in its place. He gets into a bidding war with his business rival (Jeffrey Tambor!) - and eventually bets that he can live in the slum for 30 days without leaving its grounds. His rival takes him up on it, Brook's character is slapped with a house arrest ankle bracelet that goes off if he leaves the area...
...and the greedy old CEO actually learns something about living frugally. D'aww.
That's what we should do to these bastards. That should be their community service, should they somehow avoid their inevitable jail time: Stick 'em in a two-room apartment with unreasonably high rent, find them a min. wage job - janitor, perhaps? Or, no ...how about doorman, complete with shitty tips from ungrateful billionares? - with zero or barely-adequate health insurance coverage & an extremely low chance of ever getting a promotion - then give 'em 30 days to break even on their monthly bills. Then ask them if they still feel getting a bonus such as the one they got this year would feel like getting a doorman's tip?
.................. Uhbbuhhhhhhhhh.................{thud}
I couldn't agree more.