Reply #6: Yep. The 'merit' thing shows that hypocrisy is alive and well.

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Clearly the AIG people don't merit any type of bonus let alone their base pay.

It's not just teachers stuck in the right wing's 'merit' nonsense. For 30 years conservatives working for their bosses on Fraud Street have tried to push this idea to keep employees in fear and corporate profits high.

Most employees are familiar with the consequences of this: the annual performance review. Yet here we have these AIG people who are part of the system that demanded that employees be subjected to a 'merit' system, benefiting off of a system that pays them just for being there. I can recall how the reich wing talks about union employees. Now we've come full circle: the banksters are the ones who are the dead weight in this country.

edit: spelling