Sidney Poitier: Cap CEO Salaries In Hollywood and Everywhere Else

CNSNews.com ^ | Thursday, February 19, 2009 | Nicholas Ballasy

[TaoOfSteve]

Academy award-winning actor Sidney Poitier told CNSNews.com that the salaries of CEOs everywhere, not just those of U.S. banks, should be capped at $500,000 per year. At the beginning of February, President Obama put a $500,000 per year cap on the salaries of bank CEOs as part of the $700 billion financial bailout.

When asked if the salaries of CEOs in Hollywood should be capped at $500,000 per year given the current economic crisis, Poitier said the cap should not be restricted to just Hollywood or U.S. banks.

[TaoOfSteve]

Excellent. In the fascist feeding frenzy, their duller lights are starting to eat their own. Go Sidney!

[GeronL]

why not ALL salaries??

[Doogle]

good little brownshirt

[dr_who]

A-men! Cap actor salaries! Or just cap ‘em!

[MPJackal]

Actors salary’s should also be capped at 500K/year, not just per movie. let them live in the world they want to create for others.

[big'ol_freeper]

Can’t wait till he tells his “buds” in the Screen Actors Guild that their salaries will be capped at $500,000....oh, you mean that does not apply to them?

[Big_Monkey]

Poitier and Danny Glover are two of the dumbest people on the planet. Yes, people are always sticking a microphone in their face and asking them to pontificate on subjects their pea-sized brains can’t even begin to understand.

Sydney, stick to pretending to be someone else for a living and leave global financial policy to people that aren’t on the short bus.

[GeronL]

make them live in public housing too, and take the bus

[classified]

Yes their should be caps on what Actors and Actesses get for film work!

[GeronL]

pay the extra’s in table scraps

[psjones]

Does that cap include salaries of actors?

[TaoOfSteve]

A-men! Cap actor salaries! Or just cap ‘em!

Give it just a bit more time. The Party Purges must begin before they try to attack the Right. There must be unity in the One Party before they take on 60 million of us armed heretics.

Sidney Yezhov will be taken care of by Uncle Adolph Obama's faithful.

[dfwgator]

And just how many CEOs would put up with all of the crap they have to put up with, just to make $500,000 a year, especially when they already have enough money saved up to not have to work?

[cripplecreek]

Can’t wait till he tells his “buds” in the Screen Actors Guild that their salaries will be capped at $500,000....oh, you mean that does not apply to them?

It's easy for him to say since he hasn't seen the inside of a movie studio for 20 or 30 years.

[blaveda]

How about it Sid, perhaps we should retroactively ask all the actors and actresses that have earned more than $500K/year redistribute their weath to those fleckless “home owners” who are unable to pay for their bloated mortgage payments.

[freedumb2003]

"From hell's heart I stab at thee... I spit my last breath at thee." ~ Khan Noonien Singh

You know that was Khan quoting Melville? It is a quote within a quote...

[ml/nj]

So. Let's see. If the actors get less money, and the management gets less money; and everyone keeps paying $10 (or whatever) to see a movie, who is going to keep all that leftover money?

ML/NJ

[kabar]

To the rice fields with all of them.

[Army Air Corps]

Hey, Sidney, you make some nice money off of your royalties. Why don’t YOU take a pay cut?

[kabar]

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