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Time To "Bail Out" Michael Jackson's Creditors?

Baradiel Wrote: Jun 28, 2009 8:15 PM
Hey, we are bailing EVERYONE else out, why not the dead pedophile's creditors too while we are at it.

His music sucked, and he touched little kids. The day that a bill is passed that will be a hatchet to our economy, all the news networks, including Fox, are gushing over his death.

Amazing.

Michael Jackson’s creditors have been victimized, and they “deserve” a taxpayer-funded bailout.

No, wait. Michael Jackson was victimized by “predatory” fans, managers, and concert promoters, and the surviving family “deserve” a bailout.

How do we apply the Obama era’s “economics of victimization” to the business debacle that is Michael Jackson? Right now, as the initial shock of his death has begun to fade, it appears that “the king” left this world owing people about $400 million.

I intend no insensitivity to Jackson‘s legacy, and I respect the amazing place he and his brothers holds in the history of...

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