Actually, I think the reason why military morale has improved is because Clinton is out and Bush is in!
Parsy, I think you'd be better off if you would start working on your law practice and stop worrying about how much other people are getting paid.
CEO's get paid a lot of money because they have a lot of responsibility. No one is holding a gun to Board's head and saying, "Up the CEO's salary." They are paid commensurate with their value to the company. Workers are also paid commensurate to their value to the company. You don't like that, and want to whine about it.
Grow up and get to work. The rest of us are tired of hearing about your "feelings," none of which are backed up by reason and objective facts. You are a perfect example of the type of economic illiteracy that is so prevalent in our society today, and you a law school graduate! Incredible.
Ouch! That really hurt! But, I am going to ignore my hurt feelings and respond thusly: First, as an attorney, you know that most law is not "facts." It is philosophy and concepts. Concepts like equity and fairness. Concepts like responsibility. Just to give you one example, take minwages. Do you not realize that these were present in the Code of Hammurabi? (and before him, actually.) So were business regulations. See what happened to naughty beer-maids who watered down their beer or shortchanged the serving.
Check out your Blackstone. I recall reading in there that a man could be more or less forced to work a job that paid reasonable wages, but not one that paid an unfair wage. Head on back to Greece and check out a fella named Solon. Look for something called "The Great Shaking Out."
Some of these wierd leftish things I support are actually nothing but the necessary underpinnings of a fair and equitable society.
When you are thru with the history lesson, head on over to your old Contracts textbook. Read some of that stuff dealing with K's of Adhesion, Durees, Unconscionabilty. Then come back to this thread and tell me that voluntary=fair.
I'll write more later. Busy right now trying to get a corporate client out of a bind...parsy.