Barb
Carpe Scrotum
What the hell does a corporate executive do? He plans how working people will earn money for him. Have you ever stopped to think what would happen if the ordinary working people all over the world stopped working and went on a hunger strike? Rich people and their antics make my rectum crave buttermilk.
Campy....forgive the second reference to irony....but "What the hell does a corporate executive do?" does imply that you are hardly the one to be judging said execs.
I can tell you what I do.....and whereas I am a small business owner and not one of those corporate "bigwigs"....I do what an executive does...
I refinance my house and use the cash out to invest in my business...not buy a boat or a big screen TV
I am working 24-7 even if I am not in the office
I pay my people salaries even when business is slow as it is now.
I take little out of the company during tough years and live off my savings....even though my employees are not forced to do the same.
I pay to defend myself at a cost of an attorney against terminated employees who sue me for unfair termination even though they were terminated for poor attendene
I pay to defend myself at a cost of an attorney for racial discrimination in my hiring practices even though there is none to be proven
I take the loss due to the errors of an employee.
I pay an accountant to prepare my corporate returns so I can continue to run my company.
Sweetheart, YOU are a small business man. YOU are the heart of this country.
My dad was one, WE ate fried bologna sandwiches when times were tough and business was slow. WE did with less because DAD had to take out a personal loan out to make sure the people who's sweat put the roof over our head and the food on our table were taken care of in kind. HE lost sleep if he thought that the business decisions HE made might deprive ONE of them of the roof over their head or health insurance (fully paid, I was secy treas).
HE identified with what that asshole Ronald Regan said, because he didn't know that when Ronald talked about small businessmen, he wasn't talking about my dad, and when he talked about tax reform, he would actually raise taxes on business owners like my dad to fund the political donor class.
This is all so PERSONAL to all of you. Its personal to me, too. My father was a good and decent man. The people who said all the right things, and pulled all the right strings on him, were and continue to be colossally full of shit. That offends me on the molecular level. The same place it would offend each and every one of you if you were paying the slightest bit of attention to anything other than some loosely held and really questionable set of resentments.