- Thread starter
- #21
This is nothing but a self serving emotional tirade, devoid of anything having to actually do with what you all are whining about. When was the last time a Pro Athlete or Actor went running to the government to bail them out with tax money? Pro athletes do not run the show, they are employees. In pro sports, the most highly paid pro athletes are hired by the owners of the company, and a generous portion of the total earnings are directed into their paychecks.
The outcry over high CEO pay is an entirely different scenario. In most other businesses in this country the total earnings of companies have increasingly been more directed toward paying the top rungs of the latter over the past couple decades, while a lesser and lesser share of the earnings are being used to provide salaries and wages for the bottom of the ladder. In other words, top level execs are less willing to pay their underlings respectable wages. And then, when times get tough, they cut available working hours, and cut jobs altogether. But they sure aren't thinking to cut their own pay.
Our business climate of today is increasingly focus, obsessed really, with pinching pennies at the bottom of the ladder, so that those higher up the ladder can make tens, hundreds, or even millions more. And yet, they still come running to the government for a bailout when they've bankrupted their company with the tremendous slice of the pie they are taking. And then turn around and pay themselves bonsues while laying off more people.
The complaint against the high pay of CEOs in the modern business climate has NOTHING to do with how much they make. It's about how much they CUT FROM OTHER PEOPLE, while keeping everything for themselves.
What I posted was facts, figures, and reason. What you produced is a tirade. That last line makes the least sense of your whole post. It's a contradiction of itself in one sentence.
So the class war line here is --- NO -- we never bitched about CEO compensation.. We are just outraged at the bailouts. Well get in line then... Because when you strip the Class War plumage from all the protesting and bitchin' --- MOST of us agree on the bailouts.
But in 20 minutes there'll be a post by ONE of you class warriors about how the bailouts SAVED our measly asses from a REAL Depression.. I GUARANDAMTEE it.
All you got is class warfare propaganda and no solutions. Can't even make a coherent statement on the bail-outs can ya?