Should bonuses be paid to executives in bankrupt companies?

The creditors have not been paid and the cash flow is backward, that is after all, what bankrupt means.  The company can no longer operate as before, that is why they are asking for legal protection from creditors.  Should our corporate sponsors then about-face and reward themselves?  Hell, no!  Any sane person would not think so.  For this question to even rear its ugly head is a blasphemy; and the system exposes itself to be deeply corrupt and very arrogant.
http://www.helium.com/items/2172898-corporate-greed-failing-economy-class-discrepancy-corporations-bonuses-bankrupt-company

A guide to corporate ethics

Our corporate sponsors have a Big Business mentality that is predatory, the ethics of the  world be damned. In a rational world the smoke and mirrors method of counting all the pretty beans leaves the rationalist dazed and outraged.  For the individual, it’s a short lived fantasy lark, unless they join hands, hearts, and souls with a corporation, for the betterment of all.  The safe family environment of a corporation sells the concept.
http://www.helium.com/items/2185958-corporationbig-businesscorporate-mentalityethics-in-businesscorporate-ethicspolitical-influence

Inflation in the US

The United States economy is precariously balanced on the price of a gallon of gas.  Heating, cooking, and driving are all dependent on this factor, the price of a gallon of gas.  If the money boys could figure a way for people to eat gas, they would be thrilled.  They have to make do with profits on fuel and heat; and those profits are huge.   Of course the price of food is bitterly attached to the transportation cost of goods.
http://www.helium.com/items/2197737-economyinflationgasfuelpricesconsumerpriceindexproducerpriceindexaveragehourlyearningsgoods

What is the best form of travel?

Modern travel methods in the United States include the headache of the airlines, the hassle of driving, and the torture of bus riding, leaving the only viable method Amtrak trains.  The worst problem is speed as Amtrak likes to poke along slowly; while its best asset is the relaxed atmosphere and the view. It is no plastic coffin in the sky, with passengers jammed in like grains of sand in an hourglass.  And it is not a smelly uncomfortable bus ride.  What it is is sublime to ghetto, all in one trip, is what it is.
http://www.helium.com/items/2257728-amtrak-train-travel

Making high-speed rail a viable solution

High speed trains should have been a fixture in the United States years ago. Now that the government is offering more incentives for this purpose, there is no reason not to. The United States is the only highly civilized country that has no high speed trains. The reasons for this are political and corporate in nature. The low- level hostility between Amtrak staff and passengers trickles right on up through the channels of governmental and corporate entities.
http://www.helium.com/items/2258137-making-high-speed-rail-a-viable-solution

The rich get rich faster: The poor get rich slower

Everyone has to pay a bit in order for society to move on, grow, and evolve into a better society.  Development of all forms is essential to life. However, the poor by their very definition are stagnant.  Their growth is likely to be on the loss side, whether in terms of health, education, or employment. They sink to the lowest dregs of the bottom of the barrel.  Here there is no room for movement, very much like the fact that the elite really have nowhere to go to get away from the rest of us.  It behooves them to play nice.
http://www.helium.com/items/2260373-the-poor-get-poorer-the-rich-get-richer