Posted on 06/08/2009 6:52:11 AM PDT by PeterL
How does high CEO pay make life tougher for this guy? Did they steal the money from him?
Good search. It is now clear that this guy is simply pimping his own collectivist propoganda.
Shhhhh! Mustn't be logical.
Unless he invested with Madoff or had all his money invested in one company that went under you are right that with a little bit of belt tightening or a part time job he should be ok.
But what is the drama in saying that you had to cancel your round the world cruise to stay home and paint the garage?
SO you support Jar Jar Binks?
Again, there is a big difference between big business (and I am talking about BIG business) and small companies (like the small company I run)
If you don’t believe that big business is just as bad as big government (both become inefficient machines with many unmotivated workers leaching and sucking from it) you clearly do not understand the market
What conservatives have to realize is we are pro market, not pro big business
Pal, it may be time to question your credentials as a conservative if you are unwilling to question outdated dogma.
I am a small business owner. I pay my taxes, my taxes for my employees and half of their SSI along with their health insurance plans.
Meanwhile big business (see Microsoft and their influence on the H1-B program) uses its size to manipulate the market and prevent small business owners from reaching the prosperity they have.
Big business, just like big government, is inefficient (see GM) bloated (see GM again) and no longer provides a net gain to Americans (see the outsourcing trend the last decade)
The engine of economic growth in this country is small businesses who hope to reach the status of the big guys. The problem is, the big guys in corporate America are in bed with the scum suckers in Washington DC (See Hank Paulson, Robert Reich, Rahm Emanuel) and are able to influence the government to make it that much harder for small business to succeed (you know, by making us pay absurd taxes while big companies get to off shore American jobs)
Conservatives need to realize the difference between a market economy and a corporate economy. And sometimes being pro-market means being anti-big business
although I am a supporter of this President
I was incensed at the salaries, bonuses, perks and power being given to our CEO and to all CEOs.
and begin to realize what our world could look like if we took care of each other instead of taking care of our self.
Not buying it...What say the kitties?
Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Viking Kitty/ZOT ping list!. . . don't be shy.
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Petey sez: “It is time to focus on needs and not wants, and it certainly wouldn’t hurt to think about how our actions affect the other guy, and not just that it is good for me.”
Marx said: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need”
Looks like Petey dressed it up a bit.
Kittehs alwayz nose!
Not smart posting personal info on your homepage unless you’re well armed and are willing and able to use them.
Fire in the hole!
Heck, that's good advice, even if you don't post personal stuff on your homepage! :-)
First off, I'm glad to hear you're a business owner, but I hope you hear the folly in your constructed argument. Assuming that big business (really, whatever that is) is the problem, I would presume you would be for some sort of (my word here) draconian regulations or taxation structure to ensure their demise or to somehow restrain or even constrict their growth. I don't know what sort of mechanism you'd suggest, but it sure sounds like it would need to be governmental in nature. On one hand, you say you're pro-market, but if you truly are, then you'd have to come to the conclusion that market forces would be the answer to inefficiencies and bloated corporation. The lean, efficient competitor, via the market, would thrive as an efficient, competitive alternative to the (insert large corporation name here).
As is common, many people cite Microsoft or GM as examples of unfair players in the US (and global) marketplace. But there are literally thousands of examples of corporations that could be perceived as 'big business' yet are pristine examples of how our competitive, free market economy provides for entrepreneurship and prosperity for worker and executive (read: owners) alike.
I ask again, how would someone propose to promote small or mid-size business but restrict or eliminate big business?
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