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It's funny how all rich people stick together. They also somehow have no idea that there are some who have less. Much much less.
Then there are people who think the wealthies' wealth must be protected from taxation. Even if it cost us commoners our jobs. Our hands are the very reason these rich SOBs can continue to increase their bonuses, and lay more of us off so as to further increase their bonuses. I like to hear those "protect the rich from taxation" continue to chime their tunes now with the country approaching double-digit mark in unemployment rate, the rich continuing to get bigger bonuses after the fact, and they are not spending a dollar to help the increasing number of destitutes.
Please, don't tell me these people deserve $16 million or more a year. You blue-collars work harder than them, you deserve it more than they do. If they slash their salary by 60%, they can save at least 100 jobs.
Then there are people who think the wealthies' wealth must be protected from taxation. Even if it cost us commoners our jobs. Our hands are the very reason these rich SOBs can continue to increase their bonuses, and lay more of us off so as to further increase their bonuses. I like to hear those "protect the rich from taxation" continue to chime their tunes now with the country approaching double-digit mark in unemployment rate, the rich continuing to get bigger bonuses after the fact, and they are not spending a dollar to help the increasing number of destitutes.
Please, don't tell me these people deserve $16 million or more a year. You blue-collars work harder than them, you deserve it more than they do. If they slash their salary by 60%, they can save at least 100 jobs.
Well it seems you hate the wealthy but then I ask you, who are the wealthy? You choose to pick on CEOs and they make millions of dollars a year... are you saying that the wealthy are ONLY those who make millions of dollars a year? I want some clarification...
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1 Lawrence J Ellison Oracle
2 Frederic M Poses Trane
3 Aubrey K McClendon Chesapeake Energy
4 Angelo R Mozilo Countrywide Financial
5 Howard D Schultz Starbucks
6 Nabeel Gareeb MEMC Electronic Mats
7 Daniel P Amos Aflac
8 Lloyd C Blankfein Goldman Sachs Group
9 Richard D Fairbank Capital One Financial
10 Bob R Simpson XTO Energy
11 Richard S Fuld Jr Lehman Bros Holdings
12 Steven Roth Vornado Realty
13 Marijn E Dekkers Thermo Fisher
14 Steven A Burd Safeway
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19 John T Chambers Cisco Systems
20 William R Berkley WR Berkley
21 Ray R Irani Occidental Petroleum
22 Bradbury H Anderson Best Buy
23 John W Rowe Exelon
24 Robert W Lane Deere & Co
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If he's talking about owners / employees of companies being "bailed out" by the federal government, then, for once, I'll have to agree with the left-wingers on this issue. You get in bed with the government, you'll wake up with an STD (socialism-transmitted disease). The devil may reap what is his.
If, on the other hand, Don 9/11 is talking about companies not selling their soul for a "bailout", then for once I'll have to agree with him. Top money brings top talent, and top talent brings top performance, even in an "economic crisis" (engineered by the feds). Limit that, and top talent will leave this country. Hope you know how to say "would you like fries with that" in Cantonese...
I beg to differ. The Pres. had it correct concerning bonuses and so did the VP. The Pres. called them shameful, the VP said the recipients should be in the brig.
Top money does not always bring top talent and that fact has been demonstrated many times over the years. Top money is not synonymous with top performance. However, it is synonymous with many things, some better left unmentioned.
IMO we can get adaquate talent and performance at reasonable wages. As far as top talent leaving our shores there are many ways our country can handle that, some of them would be like many countries have dealt with corporate excess. Some may be more severe.
Hope you know how to say greedy class discriminating spoiled-rotten scumbag in english.
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