When, as a small child, I became ill and had to take a pill, my parents would crush it into a powdered form, hide it in the middle of a spoonful of ice cream, and feed it to me. Like skilled magicians, they were thus able to distract my attention from what they were trying to accomplish. The same legerdemain is being practiced by those seeking to slip yet another taxpayer-subsidized transfer of wealth to corporate interests. The “ice cream,” in this instance, takes the form of (a) creating the bogeyman that corporate executives might receive multi-million dollar bonuses from … Continue reading A Hard Pill to Swallow