Posted On: December 1, 2008, 10:26 am CST

Posted By: InsMgmt

InsuranceGirl - "Welcome to working for a living, rather than working to make a killing."

Is that kind of along the lines of "Pigs Get Fed, but Hogs Get Slaughtered"?

Had the Credit Default Swaps resulted in a different outcome, we would not have known the details of compensation packages, nor would most of us have cared.

Had the politicians kept their hands off of the financial underwriting standards, we would not be in the fix we are in today. Now, it appears, the heralded "Change We Can Believe In" is just more of the same. The length of the 1930's depression was due, in large part, to the New Deal - government intervention in the economy and the business sector sitting on the sidelines waiting to see what the government would do next - sound familiar?

The free market economy should allow for us to work for a "killing". Why else would we strive to perform and create? If we hoggishly abuse our position and privilege the market will eventually make a correction and we will be culled out of the herd and slaughtered.