Bonuses Redux

Obama is wrong and right.  Multimillion dollar bonuses to decisionmakers who failed miserably so badly managing their financial companies is ludicrous.  Eliminating bonuses for the majority of other employees is criminal.  Imagine the factory floor worker who has a spotless record showing up on time, doing his job efficiently and effectively.  Imagine that worker told when he gets his check, sorry we are not paying you extra for overtime, because sales are down.  Because we had you making the wrong product, and it was poorly designed and costs to much also, sorry for that.  And than imagine those same decision makers giving themselves bonuses.  That is where President Obama hit the nail on the head.  Any leader, political, military, or business who takes for himself at the expense of those he/she leads should esxpect no loyalty.  In fact he/she should be tarred feather and run out of town on a rail. Well we don't do that anymore and that's a pity.  That leader is destroying the organizaiton.  We have all heard the stories of soldiers who will follow a particular officer into deadly danger because they have seen he "takes care of his men first"  they eat before he does, they have shelter before he does, they see him accepting the same privations they suffer.  To add a big dollop of salt into the wound, the public excuse offered is "maintaining value of the franchise". News Flash, the franchise is worthless without the loyalty  of those who do the work.  Shame on those who betray the people they lead.