Posted on 04/17/2006 5:53:30 PM PDT by Borges
Bill Oreilly was complaining about the outgoing CEO of Exxon Mobil making too much money and Cavuto pointed out that Oil Company CEOs provide a much bigger service to society then talk show hosts who also make millions...Bill was speechless.
Good point by Cavuto.
I think Cavuto also has multiple sclerosis, so O'Reilly could use that to his advantage also.
Me too.
I'm rather surprised that everyone who has responded so far on this thread gives the retiring Exxon CEO a pass.
I mean $400 million to leave the company? And that was an optional severance that they gave him? Can any one person be worth that much? Does any one really NEED that much money? On the surface it sounds obscene. Is it a comparable severance package for other CEO's? Sounds like America needs to look at the distribution of wealth at the top if you ask me. Some accountability seems in order.
And FWIW, I like O'Reilly and he has done more for me than the Exxon CEO, by far.
That's a very dangerous thought process. Be careful what you wish for.
Perhaps you are not aware that Mr. Cavuto has multiple sclerosis although he rarely mentions it. I highly doubt even O'Reilly would stoop as low as you mightlike.
Bill O'Reilly earns his pay. He can easily justify it because his program is rated Number One, the most watched show on TV right now.
Americans don't want that but when bonuses and severance packages are doled out willy nilly then the adversarial model is fed and the company's workers get snubbed.
If there was $400 million kicking around to benefit the company what good did it do to give it to one retiring man like that?.
Cavuto has MS...hidden disability, but disability.
I recently heard an interview with him on the NMSS site called Face of MS. It's at http://www.faceofms.org
He has three short statements on the site (you have to search the "tiles" to find his) and in one he explains that some days, he can't even get out of bed. Other times, he says, he does great, and occasionally he'll be doing his show, everything going along great, and come back from a break only to have his eyes affected by the MS and find that he's lost much of his sight.
He also has one interview on the site that talks about his disability in relationship to his life...and he tells a very interesting story about what happened to him on 9/10, the day before 9/11. His story puts "life" in perspective.
But this bizarre class of corporate management that's cropped-up - CEOs who've been brought into the company and showered with obscenely lavish pay by a board of directors who are playing the "I'll scratch your back" game - pisses me off.
I'm no socialist but, come on...it's ridiculous.
It's out of control.
Hi Tator!
Yes, I know. Still don't think he's worth it though.
I know that he does, but you are right, he rarely mentions it. I always cringe when he reads e-mails from people in the audience who accuse him of never knowing a day of suffering.
You've identified a serious problem with Board of Directors doling out large sums of the company's money. It may be as you suggest, a scratch each other's back ploy, which does nobody but the BOD members any good.
Are these your feelings on wealth, in general? Ever given much thought to how much Bill Gates is worth? Money is never obscene. What is obscene is that people chose to use it unwisely. Money should not end with shame. The people who have it, generally have earned it. Capitalism at its best.
My respect for Neil grows a little more each day.
Dobbs is an asshole.
I hate that SOB.
He is not conservative at all, but rips Bush all the time on issues a conservative would agree with him on, not just immigration.
However, that does seem to be all he can ever talk about. That, or China.
Your Kidding, Lou Dobbs is a dyed in the wool socialist if there ever was one. He is a joke as a 'business analyst'.
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