FDR, nuff said:

[kpete]

"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country." - FDR



peace, & happy 2014,
kp

[daleanime]

1. K&R....

[Rex]

2. But FDR had blood dripping from his fangs!

Or so I've heard here on the DU. OH well, just throw him under the bus now and get it over with!

[cheapdate]

15. Oh stop it!

FDR was our greatest progressive president and yet he stubbornly resisted getting involved in African American's struggle for civil rights and he stripped Japanese Americans of their constitutional rights in the name of national security. Lyndon Johnson probably did more to reduce poverty in American than any president before or since, yet he fabricated the Gulf of Tonkin incident to expand our brutal and deadly war in southeast Asia. Barack Obama has presided over an astonishing growth of the surveillance state and yet he has agressively defended voting rights from the most serious attacks they've faced since the Jim Crow era.

All leaders are fallible. Contradiction is inescapable.

[JDPriestly]

18. Thanks. I'm still a big fan of FDR and Johnson.

All leaders make mistakes, but Republicans generally make more and more serious mistakes than Democrats.

[roguevalley]

19. In Georgia, waitresses make 2.13 an hour. Nice isn't how much our country loves us.

[Doctor_J]

20. Don't worry. The Fan Club will be here soon to point that out.

[FactBasedLifeform]

3. One of my favorite FDR quotes. nt

[Laelth]

4. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[progressoid]

5. Happy fucking New Year...

for the CEOs.

[grantcart]

6. These multiples are an obscenity.

Beyond showing the oppression of the worker they show how the shareholders are getting ripped off.

[bvar22]

7. DURec for FDR.

I can remember when voting FOR The Democrat was voting for those Working Class Values.
Sadly, this is no longer true.

[ErikJ]

8. Why do they pick on Walmart so much then?

Looks like theyre all bad--or worse than Walmart. I know that Starbucks has a health plan at least.

[moondust]

12. Public assistance for their hourly employees?

I don't know how many of the above do that, but Walmart is certainly the most noticeable elephant in the welfare line.

[Archaic]

22. Because Wal-Mart, according their website, employs 1.3 MILLION PEOPLE.

So while they're "among the leaders" in crap pay, as corporate America would put it, they have massive scale compared to the other companies.

[ErikJ]

23. Their annual revenue is 5 TIMES HIGHER than the 2nd highest retailer in America

2013 TOP 100 RETAILERS

1 Wal-Mart Bentonville, Ark. $467,896,000
2 Kroger Cincinnati $92,165,000
3 Target Minneapolis $71,960,000
4 Costco Issaquah, Wash. $97,062,000
5 The Home Depot Atlanta $66,022,000
6 Walgreen Deerfield, Ill. $65,014,000
7 CVS Caremark Woonsocket, R.I. $63,688,000
8 Lowe's Mooresville, N.C. $49,366,000
9 Safeway Pleasanton, Calif. $37,532,000
10 McDonald's Oak Brook, Ill. $35,593,000

http://www.stores.org/2013/Top-100-Retailers

[Archaic]

24. Did you grow up thinking anybody would make more than McDonald's?

I mean 13x more revenue than freaking McD's?

[Uncle Joe]

9. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread and Happy New Year, kpete.

[kpete]

11. same to you Uncle Joe

and PEACE,
kpete

[Curmudgeoness]

10. Why are they basing that CEO pay on 60 hour weeks?

So many companies that I have worked for have been lucky to see the CEO before 10 or 11 AM. And then they head out to the golf course, or to get their hair cut, or a million other things that have nothing to do with business. I doubt that these CEO's are any different. And why only 50 weeks a year?

And why are they basing the number of months that the average worker would have to work overtime to equal CEO pay? That makes it look better than to say how many month an average employee would work 40 hour weeks to equal one hour of CEO pay.....less confusing and more telling.

Very telling informational table. The multiples are shocking.

[tclambert]

25. They often count that golf outing as work time. And the luncheon at the five-star restaurant,

and the afternoon cocktail party on the yacht. If they dream about business, they probably count nap time as work time as well. And, of course, if they read the Wall Street Journal while on the toilet, well . . .

[Brigid]

13. Love me some FDR!

[moondust]

14. What do those CEOs do to "earn" it?

Sit around under air conditioners making educated guesses? Pinning the tail on a donkey? Discussing the next move the computer that crunched their data tells them to make? Fly around in private jets acting "important"?

[Doctor_J]

21. They keep the hourlies in poverty

That's their job

[King_Klonopin]

27. And don't forget about the "Down-Sizing". Another Big Brother-ism. n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. But, but, but, CEOs NEED 9k an hour or what's the point of working?

[Thor_MN]

17. Show me a CEO that works 60 hour weeks and takes only 2 weeks of vacation...

More like 30 hour weeks with 6 weeks of vacation. Schmoozing with other execs does not count as "work."

[tclambert]

26. Yes, but they have to carry around the invisible chains they forge in life, like Marley's ghost,

and though unseen those chains are very heavy. But he was a good man of business, that Jacob Marley.

Honestly, do NONE of this generation of CEOs know the story of "A Christmas Carol?" Do they all want "He was a good man of business" carved on their gravestones? When they are gasping out their last breaths, do they think they will feel proud that they squeezed a few pennies out of their poorest employees in order to make a number on the corporate balance sheet infinitesimally larger? Do they think any number on that balance sheet makes up for the misery they cause?

[iamthebandfanman]

28. eleanor

made up for any flaws her husband had... IMHO... our greatest first lady, if you ask me...

I think he was our greatest president.. and most certainly the greatest president in the last 100 years, with out a doubt.

[WowSeriously]

29. But not the transformational President our current President chose to admire.

[blkmusclmachine]

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