CEO's Make 300 Times Average Workers Salary

[MrAppleseed88]

there is no reason to pay evil jew bankers any interest at all. they do nothing a National Credit union could not do, but the Credit union would deposit all Profits into next years budget items. no need to pay jew interest at all. jews are not needed.

[atosafi1]

Capitalism, who doesn't love it?

[THAROC85]

Don't hate the player, hate the game!!!

[candoyja]

These greedy CEOs should be pitted against 160,000 laid-off workers in a Rome coliseum.

That is justice.

[hdrmax]

After adjusting for inflation, CEO pay in 2009 more than doubled the CEO pay average for the decade of the 1990s, more than quadrupled the CEO pay average for the 1980s, and ran approximately eight times the CEO average for all the decades of the mid-20th century, IPS writes.

[craigenputtock]

This what happens in a country that emphasizes "individualism"---and to hell with your society and fellow man. Hey, Americans, you DESERVE to struggle to make a living!

[Anothercoilgun]

We all should care if execs received 1000 times more. More is proof of less towards the employees.  Less compensation, less medical coverage, less bonuses all lead to less stable work force and shitty economy of today.

[DANJULLMANN44]

@Anothercoilgun So we should all care, and then ??? Make lasws that say who can pay whom what?? So what about hollywood? and the MLB, NHL, NFL, NBA? What if somebody starts a company like Facebook or Google ? or Microsolft ? And what if the founders and shareholders of these companies decide that it is in their interst to pay a CEO millions? Who are you to say how much is too much and how much is ok?

[boston312]

@DANJULLMANN44 I dont care how much these CEOs make as long as it does not effect me. When their Corporations are constantly bailed out with my (our) tax money than I have an issue with them. Why do I need to pay for their fuck ups? You Conservatives all think the same. You somehow think that the rich are untouchable and that we (the masses) are here to serve their interests.

[DANJULLMANN44]

@boston312 well boston, I and other conservatives were not for the bailouts. We believe that part of capitalism is that weak, poorly run companies go by the way side and new more dynamic ones start up to replace them. So I agree the gov should but out and not pick winners and losers by bailing out bad companies. You lose the argument again. Try again my friend.

[atosafi1]

@DANJULLMANN44 This is modern capitalism, it's the same as when people call China, North Korea, Cuba, Soviet etc. "communist" countries.

[DANJULLMANN44]

@atosafi1 Sorry I am not sure what your point is.

[atosafi1]

@DANJULLMANN44 Point is, that even if this isn't pure capitalism it's modern capitalism because the free market falls on itself - every market starts out with a dozen businesses competing with eachother and with 3-5 of them left standing after a while because they have more resources, more money, better connections etc and then they divide the market between them and keep the prices high and kill off any new businesses. That's why markets need strong regulation, else it all falls apart.

[DANJULLMANN44]

@Anothercoilgun so what is the remidy????? Tell me that. Do you think you or some gov body should determine what is fair?

[DolphinFilms]

I could care less if execs received 1000 times as long as it's not "taxpayer" money.

If the gov't had allowed them to fail we would not be in this mess. It should have been handled like Enron, through banckruptcy and the courts the company was liquidated and the criminals were thrown in jail at no cost to the taxpayer.

This is the unintended consequences/blow back due to gov't intervention/takeover of the private sector.