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White House Appoints Czar to Oversee Executive Pay
New York Times ^ | June 10, 2009 | Stephen Labaton

Posted on 06/10/2009 8:45:42 AM PDT by reaganaut1

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Instead of government setting pay, a recipe for corruption and conflicts of interest, we must wind down the bailouts! In America, the president is not supposed to be a "czar", much less the people he appoints.
1 posted on 06/10/2009 8:45:42 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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I was looking for the satire label. This isn’t, is it?
The Boy King consolidates his power. Soon it will be a real tyranny we’re living in, not a “soft” tyranny.


2 posted on 06/10/2009 8:47:16 AM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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These ‘czars’ are not accountable to Congress (the people). They are only accountable to Bozo.


3 posted on 06/10/2009 8:48:35 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: Right Cal Gal

Today is slap an obama voter day


4 posted on 06/10/2009 8:48:39 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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If this is a duplicate submission is there a way to point that out so comments are merged? Or do we wait for the moderators to catch it?


5 posted on 06/10/2009 8:49:31 AM PDT by TomOnTheRun
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The first American dictator....many of his fellow African Americans are certainly proud that he is drawing American blood....


6 posted on 06/10/2009 8:49:47 AM PDT by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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`czar’: short for commissar. 20+ and counting, and accountable only to Zero.


7 posted on 06/10/2009 8:52:42 AM PDT by tumblindice (The outer party were comparable to the hands, while the inner party were the brains of Big Brother)
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If Poland get a flat tax, how many of these Exec's will take immersed language programs, take their capital and bolt.... Look at their overall taxes, I may be ahead of the curve here...
8 posted on 06/10/2009 8:54:50 AM PDT by taildragger (Palin / Mulally 2012)
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Hopefully, they'll be reviewing the compensation of all those University Presidents and Basketball coaches too for institutions which accept Federal Grants.

ML/NJ

9 posted on 06/10/2009 8:55:32 AM PDT by ml/nj
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another czar. another unaccountable dictator.

I am sure one company run by Dems will be able to have higher exec pay than one run by Repubs.

You just know that. We have no rule of law in this country.


10 posted on 06/10/2009 8:56:44 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <----go there now,----> tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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will have broad discretion to set the pay for 175 top executives at seven of the nation’s largest companies

I can only hope to see 175 retirements in the next few months.

11 posted on 06/10/2009 8:56:47 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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It is now "US" against "THEM".

Sadly, "We" will lose.

We've been fighting this crap for almost fifty years yet it still is overtaking us.

12 posted on 06/10/2009 8:57:19 AM PDT by ex91B10 (The only response now is mass resistance.)
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WHAT ABOUT PAY RECEIVED FROM THE TAXPAYER TO FAILING CONGRESSMEN, SENATORS, TEACHERS, ALL GOVERNMENT WORKERS?


13 posted on 06/10/2009 8:58:32 AM PDT by roses of sharon (We must get a grip on what we can, and hold on. Hold on with energy, imagination, and ferocity)
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I’m getting very tired of this “Czar” $hit. When are the courts going to limit (or, more properly and better yet, eliminate) the authority of these unelected, unconfirmed and unaccountable dictators?

I’m just waiting to see what the Czar of Czars and his Keystone Kops will do when there’s 12% unemployment (admitted, that is, as U6, the traditional measure, is already near 16%) and 1/4 of the population goes John Galt. WTF are they going to do? Mass arrests, internment camps, WHAT?

The country is falling apart - just wait until the first failure of a Treasury auction (i.e. where the Fed has to buy the entire issue or nearly all of it, as no one else wants the bonds), THEN you’ll see massive problems. Yet all that the Czar of Czars (Capo di Tutti Capi, in a language closer to ours than Russian) can do is go for $20,000 dinners with his anti-American wife, when he’s not further nationalizing companies, proposing confiscatory taxes, violating contract law and just plain old lying his arse off, that is.

The Founders must be doing about 10,000 RPM in their graves, right about now.


14 posted on 06/10/2009 9:02:33 AM PDT by Ancesthntr (Tyrant: "Spartans, lay down your weapons." Free man: "Persian, come and get them!")
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Weren’t the czars the people in power before the Russian revolution? I think it is time for another revolution here.


15 posted on 06/10/2009 9:05:34 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
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Greedy politicians, not greedy corporations, are responsible for jobs leaving this country.

This will be another incentive to move operations out of this country and into more favorable business climates.

16 posted on 06/10/2009 9:07:50 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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If Poland get a flat tax, how many of these Exec's will take immersed language programs, take their capital and bolt.... Look at their overall taxes, I may be ahead of the curve here...

I find it interesting - in the Twilight Zone sense of that word - the Pravda sought fit a couple of weeks ago to warn us of the perils of Socialism - PRAVDA, for crying out loud! What a friggin' joke - we vanquish the Soviet Empire with no shots fired, merely by spending a modest amount on defense for 8 or so years (7% or so of GNP, not really a lot), and these jokers in power are RUSHING us, PUSHING, CAJOLING, FORCING us toward that system as fast as possible.

I'm beginning to wonder if I died and went to Hell - but I know that it can't be because I still have my guns (and yeah, I know, these freaks in DC are working on that - well, I'm from Texas: Come and take them).

17 posted on 06/10/2009 9:07:52 AM PDT by Ancesthntr (Tyrant: "Spartans, lay down your weapons." Free man: "Persian, come and get them!")
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When is CONGRESS going to see that they aren’t in control?
Glenn Beck said yesterday that there are 16 czars reporting directly to “O”. WHY is NO ONE in DC screaming about this?


18 posted on 06/10/2009 9:10:11 AM PDT by RebelTXRose
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19 posted on 06/10/2009 9:13:29 AM PDT by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: reaganaut1

Almost every decision made by this administation so far is a softball to hit out of the park by an actual freedom loving conservative candidate in 2012. Time to cap the size of government and send the Czars back to Russia where they can only be seen from an island off Alaska.


20 posted on 06/10/2009 9:15:23 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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