yeah,well,a lot of us “citizens” don’t get $35,000 for a years work,much less an hour or speaking.
No wonder so many are fed up with ALL the “people in charge”.
The huge disparities in wages or salary are going to lead to a French-stlye Revolution eventually.The 1950s era of 50 or 60 to 1 ratio between the new kid in the mailroom and the company president was also an era of American prosperity;todays 600 or 1000 to 1 pay ratio is not.
Yeah, well...people educate themselves and use their education to make a living. That is called “free enterprise,” Newt did not approach them..they came to him. There is NOTHING illegal about being a consultant. What he made is a lot less than other consultants make...it is much ado about nothing
“yeah,well,a lot of us “citizens” don’t get $35,000 for a years work,much less an hour or speaking.”
Ah, but we don’t all resent others making it. That’s usually the lefties department. They’re down the hall...
Well clearly some of us make too much then... Perhaps you can advise us all on what we should make? Perhaps you can also advise on how best to spread the wealth from some of us who make too much according to you?
Seriously re-read what you said... if this is truly what you believe you may belong at Huffington post, expressing thoughts on how some people make more than you and it’s not fair...
Your ratio is completely bogus. The reality is we should pay for the skill. The mail-room boy has been replaced by email, the shipping person outsourced to a company who can provide it for the least cost.
Consultants provide value for their time. If they do not they don’t get retained further... however on the other hand... our supreme leader commands $25k for a plate of dinner and provides negative value... for it’s time you can’t ever get back...
I’d suggest if you don’t make more than $35k/year, you need to change what you are doing. Granted if you are fixed income, disabled, SSI etc... well then that is another issue, whole other thread on that.
“yeah,well,a lot of us “citizens” don’t get $35,000 for a years work,much less an hour or speaking.”
Your right. That’s 3X the minimum wage! /S
Are you forgetting that this is a conservative site that has little respect for class envy and that appreciates those who use their education and skill to enrich themselves legally? If you want class envy, the Dems have your perfect candidate.
A mail boy, or any menial labor employee, is useless now-a-days compared to a CEO whose vision drives the company, which employs hundreds and thousands of people.
Spoken like a true communist...what the heck are you talking about? I do not want everybody making the same....are you insane? Do you think doctors should make as much as 7-11 cash register worker? Go to Cuba, were you will be much happier comrade.
The reality is if you are a wealthy person who made their money honestly, then you you have already contributed to society with every dollar that you made. Somebody might make a fortune selling DVDs, but every person who purchased from them did so willingly and because that DVD was worth more to them than the money they parted with. That’s why there is no reason there should be a tax surcharge on a wealthy person’s income above what anyone else pays. They got their money because they deserved it for contributing something to other people’s lives.
The issue at hand is that the actual producers - inventors, engineers, manufactures - take a back seat to the do-nothing types - welfare cheats, Wall Street investors, and anybody else who takes income for no actual work output.
I realize it is not popular within a certain segment of Republicanism, but we won World War II not by talking, not by posing, but by working our asses off and doing.