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To: SampleMan
So you don't care if the CEO packs the board with cronies and cuts the corporations profits from 20% to 10% by skimming money into his own pockets?

Now partner...I never said I would approve of corruption.... Maybe I stretched the "don't care" statement, but no one put a gun to my head and forced me to buy the stocks I own....and yes one is Bank America and another is Wells Fargo....

I invested in those stocks on my own free will as a free American which I intend to do until I die. My point was, I do not need Obama's or Barney Franks assistance.

85 posted on 02/04/2009 11:46:04 AM PST by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: cbkaty
Now partner...I never said I would approve of corruption.... Maybe I stretched the "don't care" statement, but no one put a gun to my head and forced me to buy the stocks I own....and yes one is Bank America and another is Wells Fargo....

No one put a gun to my head and forced me to buy my house. I still don't want it burglarized. As a shareholder, a person has a right to expect honesty from their management team. As shares have become more divested, it has become easier for management teams to steal from them. That is a real problem. I've never argued that there should be hard caps on compensation, there shouldn't, but that doesn't mean that there isn't a problem. Very few CEOs would be making what they are if they were working directly for a single shareholder instead of a boardroom full of their buddies.

My point was, I do not need Obama's or Barney Franks assistance.

I don't care for their involvement either, but these management teams have made a deal with the devil by sticking their hands into the public till.

90 posted on 02/04/2009 12:19:47 PM PST by SampleMan (Community Organizer: What liberals do when they run out of college, before they run out of Marxism.)
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