If you are in a dangerous financial territory as you stated, I would be interested in where else you cut expenses before you were forced to punish the affiliates who helped you get where you currently are. Or did you just say screw the affiliates because there is nothing they can do about it. Of course the company line will be something like this is personal business information which we can’t share with the public.
By the way, were you in the rumored “screw the affiliates” meeting in Amsterdam?