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King_Klonopin

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22. Even if taken in a vacuum and looked at objectively,

Mon Feb 17, 2014, 04:20 AM

Feb 2014

What on earth justifies paying ANYONE a salary of tens of millions of dollars PER YEAR ?

Managing other peoples' money ??
Owning a bank (which basically holds other peoples' money) ??
Selling stocks and bonds ??
Hitting a baseball ??
Screwing employees (Wal-Mart) ??
Gutting the workforce of a corporation by thousands at a time (Sunbeam, Verizon) ??
Increasing value of the company stock using any unethical means necessary (ENRON, AIG) ??
Decreasing value of the company stock because of incompetence (GM, Chrysler, Citibank, Countrywide) ??

Meanwhile, what's the average salary of a teacher, or a nurse, or a firefighter ... ???????

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Former CEO: Executive Pay Is 'A Fraud' [View all] LiberalArkie Feb 2014 OP

When I grew up, taking as much money from the till as you wanted, was called theft shenmue Feb 2014 #1

Thank you, shenmue for putting it into words. Octafish Feb 2014 #4

Most pertinent! dougolat Feb 2014 #19

+1,000 TexasTowelie Feb 2014 #6

And then trickle-down economics became the buzzword. toddwv Feb 2014 #8

thanks for posting this. nt antigop Feb 2014 #2

But we working men and women already knew this. We want a way to stop the fraud. nt kelliekat44 Feb 2014 #3

Unfortunately the economy will have to get far, far, worse CFLDem Feb 2014 #5

bosses are usually #$%^ demigoddess Feb 2014 #7

"I got mine." PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #9

"...structural breakdown of the meritocracy of our nation." randome Feb 2014 #10

If only politicians could not be bought and sold. Rex Feb 2014 #11

Time has come ... progressoid Feb 2014 #12

Now that's what we're talking about. K&R. ck4829 Feb 2014 #13

So true! Bookmarking! n/t freshwest Feb 2014 #14

CEO is the last refuge of a scoundrel. nt Edim Feb 2014 #15

so-- "women and men" as though there were an equal number of them niyad Feb 2014 #16

I noticed this peculiar wording too Lordquinton Feb 2014 #18

what top female ceo's earn niyad Feb 2014 #17

Money needs to circulate CJCRANE Feb 2014 #20

"Trickle Down" is a modern-day SCAM. But try telling that to our DEMS, many of whom are wealthy and blkmusclmachine Feb 2014 #21

Even if taken in a vacuum and looked at objectively, King_Klonopin Feb 2014 #22

And 2r = d ... freebrew Feb 2014 #23

Unfortunately it might BuelahWitch Feb 2014 #24