People need incentive to shut-up about 9-11.

Why I will not buy stock....stock options---where the board gives share holder money away....CEOs, who after losing vast amounts of money--are rewarded with lucrtive bonuses to leave...Then there is the just plain crooked people in this world...The share holder has no protection from these people..if you make oney on your stock--thank the lord..because it was not the boards doing, or the CEOs..because, they actually work against the share holder..SEC?? What a laugh they are...They are the "crooked people"...

BTW, I'll take that job as President with an 80% pay cut.

Amazing that the defenders of 300% pay increase of corporate stuffed shirts will immediately insist that unions are the reason american business is swirling around the toilet. And then they enjoy their 40 hour work week and their living wage, and wait for their jobs to be citibanked or Circuit Citied, by these same corporate clowns who after "streamlining" the company at the behest of the super rich stockholders, give them self another 20% raise. Then the walmart shoppers go out and vote republican, wrapping themselves in their chineese made american flag.

Heck, I'll be a CEO of a major corporation for $250,000 a year and a million dollar golden parachute. Even if I lost money, they'd save a bundle hiring me over some other guy.

Here's a very good wiki on executive compensation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_compensa...

Youse guys are all wagin wats called CLASS WARFARE. You knows that similar to Socialism.

We got to pay these executives lots of money or else they will go to work for someones else. Our whole system of govenment might collapse.

Besides, it aint like they dont desvere these raises. If they dint deserver them, then they wouldnt gather the board members together and vote themselves those big raises.

Believes me, the top executives in this nation are very special people. Every one of em is really, really smaht. And they always makes the right decisions.

Now the only reason Enron failed was accounta the ACLU.

And Wolrd Com failed cause a HIllery.

And HealthSouth werent really a fraudulent entaprise, thye just ran afoul of Democrats.

See, all corporations want to do is be religious, God Fearin, Patriotic, Americans, who only want the type of income that matches their Godlieness.

Amen.

I was reading a column by George Will the other day mocking the idea that gas price increases really affect the average American. And I recall Limbaugh saying that it is no big deal either. Don't these people understand that average Americans are getting screwed? When I drove by the gas station and saw that prices had just jumped .24 overnight I don't think of it as "no big deal".

Average income for the Middle Class and below has barely budged since 2000. Yet we have no lobby to support our needs. No voice that speaks up for us in Congress. And certainly no sympathy from the top.

Most of us will not make in a lifetime what these men (mostly) make in one year. There should be performance clauses in all of these contracts. You earn what you earn based on the profits of the company. There is no risk to these people. They lose their jobs and they all have these outlandish golden parachute clauses that allow them to rob the coffers on the way out.

yeah, no kidding. and when dothey deserve this kind of pay??

to much going on behind our backs... dont believe the media.. they get paid also

Every person who works at a company should invest in its shares AND vote at shareholder meetings. Only 5% of the total (as a block) is a controlling share. Smart companies that really want to grow and be profitable pay employees partly in shares - they want their people invested and interested.

If the Enron shareholders had really paid attention, they themselves could have stopped the debacle. AND voted on the salaries of the board and directors! share-holding is not just putting your bucks in a box and waiting. It is POWER.

People have so much power they don't use!

I like what Michael Moore said: buy shares, and run for dog-catcher - power sharing starts at the grass roots. The repugs get it - they slowly took over everything from church boards to town halls and school comittees to radio stations and got into positions where they can appoint their sick anti-democratic unpatriotic buddies.

Nothing stopping the rest of us from doing the same except an attitude.

Just a comment on the president spending $50 million to get a job that pays 400,000. It's not like they're spending their own money. They get money from people they are then beholden to after they get elected.