[geologist]

I believe in freedom ... not in the rip off of a company simply because one has the power to siphon it off ... I see it as a different policy all together. If it were a tax issue the government would certainly tell you . you can not skim off much of the profits and not show it to be what it is.

Do you actually believe it is okay to make a deal with a few of the heads of a company to give you a salary 0f #300 million dollars as a bonus? The companies are almost all owned by stockholders. IT IS THE SAME THEFT THE GOVERNMENT IS DOING NOW.

I guess I am incapable of clearly expressing the situation.

[Osage Orange]

All I was addressing...was your apparent notion that no one is worth ( pick a $$$ number here...).

I think that is a very dangerous precedent that we don't want to start.

[skeeter]

We conservatives should not allow ourselves to be maneuvered into the position of defending the likes of Franklin Raines, who made 20 million in salaries and bonuses in 2003.

I won't condemn the board's decision to pay the SOB so much, but I'll be damned if I'll defend it either.

Let the recipients of all that dough defend it themselves.