So if a big company gives its employees bonuses while holding their hand out for government aid, the public justifiably gets mad. What do you do when your city government gives out bonuses when you have a deficit, the economy is spiraling down and many of the people who pay the taxes these bonuses are paid from are out of work.

This would be the case in Washington DC where over the last two years over 15 million in bonuses were given.

Some of the bigger fish got:

»  Michelle Rhee, schools chancellor, $41,250 in 2007

»  Mary Clegg, schools superintendent executive, $25,000 in 2009

»  Karen Griffin, schools special education executive, $25,000 in 2008

»  Eric Stanchfield, D.C. Retirement Board, $21,997 in 2009

»  Anthony Pompa, finance office executive, $21,796 in 2008

»  Robin-Eve Jasper, city property manager, $18,000 from 2008-09

»  Pierre Vigilance, Department of Health director, $15,000 in 2008

Now the bonuses in 07 and even early 08 might have been excusable, but anything in 09 is out of the question.  The sad part is I doubt this is an isolated incident.