Bonuses, anyone?

I can't BELIEVE it. First, I read in the Wall Street Journal that Merrill Lynch intended to and made the decision to pay their employees outrageous bonuses at the end of December and then lied about that decision to Congress. They usually pay bonuses in January for the previous quarter, but they paid them early. Now why do you think they did that? Because they knew they were going under and they knew that they shouldn't get any bonuses because their profits were going to be negative, in the toilet, and suck!!! GREED! Now we hear about AIG planning to pay their employees some huge, outrageous bonuses as well. And what does my evening news tell me about that? They say that the government can't do anything about it. I can't stand it. I really can't stand it. These people are EVIL! (Sometimes I just want to hit them over the head with a crow bar.)