Posted on 04/14/2015 6:25:01 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
Hillary Clinton, under pressure from the left wing of her Democratic Party to aggressively campaign against income inequality, voiced concern about the hefty paychecks of some corporate executives in an email to supporters.
Striking a populist note, Clinton, who announced on Sunday she was running for president in 2016, said American families were still facing financial hardship at a time "when the average CEO makes about 300 times what the average worker makes."
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What you say is absolutely true. What gets me is all those CEO’s she denigrates will line up all the way around a Wall Street block to give her millions of dollars either for her foundation or her election. I do not understand why every damn one of them do not give money to true capitalists instead of a communist???
Same song they have been singing for decades.
Next to the climate change crap, evil CEOs making a lot of money is a mainstay issue for the progressives/Libs/Dems.
Notice how many CEOs and corporations have made out very lucratively under those same progressives/Libs/Dems.
Hypocrisy, but they still get away with the doublespeak.
What a CEO is paid is for the Board of Directors and company stockholders to decide—No one else.
She sat on the board at Wally World. Doesn’t the board vote for CEO pay?
The ‘left wing of the Democrat party’?????
What other wing is there?
On the topic of CEO pay: Hillary certainly has hubris.
Her totally no-talent daughter is being paid $600,000 a year to be a director of the the Clinton Foundation.
I don’t think there is another place in the entire USA who would pay Chelsea even $60,000 a year if they didn’t know who she was & she had to EARN a SALARY on her own.
My brother built a company literally from the ground up. Bought the land—built the building—bought the desks, chairs, computers, etc. Hired the best persons he could find. He worked 7 days a week often. This continued for over 24 years.
When he finally retired, he was paying himself a bit over $200,000 a year, and he was a Sub-S corp, so all the taxes flowed thru to him-—after Corp taxes were paid.
He had as many as 65 on payroll at any one time. Staff was working 2 shifts at certain times of the year.
That is how this country works-—
There is no success built into the Clinton methods.
Let’s see her cut Chelsea’s pay first———and cut it to about $50,000. (Still overpaid). Also-— have her stop the Clinton Foundation from taking millions of dollars from people from other countries.
SCAM is the middle name of all the Clinton’s.
Hillary should reduce CEO pay at the Clinton Foundation and save millions in kickbacks.
The speech was given with a limit of 100 people in the audience. 65 of those 100 were secret service agents!!!
HA HA-— A pretty good trick- Limit the audience & make hose who do attend pay more & make them feel like they are SPECIAL. Then, fill up the list of 100 with 65 Secret Service agents.
Maybe she needed so many agents to pick up her fat ass if she fell down.
***..voiced concern about the hefty paychecks of some corporate executives in an email to supporters.***
Strange. In my understanding, CEOs get a stipend to live on, and then they are voted lots of company stock as their pay. Such stock must be approved by the stock holders.
If the CEO manages the company right, all the stock will increase in value. If they fail, the stock value will decrease.
We always watched the CEO to see when he would dump his stock, usually when he had done so well to increase the value of the company and company stock.
When he dumped his stock and took the money, we dumped what little we had as we knew the stock would then tank for a while.
How stupid is America?
Remember the guy who sold PET ROCKS!!!
So she IS worried about Fiorina.
How stupid is America?
Looks who is President.
That’s the gist of it. Though I do support more tools for Shareholders to have more of a say — mainly some reform of ‘negative affirmation’ voting — wherein if you don’t vote, your proxy is assigned to the existing board.
I dont’ see much difference between CEO, senior executives and board members and successful politicians.
They’re wealthy, they perpetuate a ruling class when children of Politicians and high level Executives get accepted to top tier colleges and college programs because of their parents influence and affluence.
I think that at the very fundamental method of college and university acceptance needs to be overhauled with the rejection of legacy students, measured racial quotas and political stereotyping. In other words, a 100% blind acceptance based strictly on merit.
Dont’ forget also that the Federal dollars that go to these Universities must be looked at and redirected more towards student tuition breaks than lining the pockets of pseudo-scientist, racists of a different sort, and the intellectual dishonesty of advocates of “white privilege”, man made global warming/cooling, and social injustice.
As long as CEO pay is generated by performance factors whatever it ends up to be is fine with me. Delivering value to stockholders is the key.
CEO’s are leftist globalists. Let Hill butt tax the heck out of them. Who cares. They screw us left and left.
Hillary Rodham charges a college $300K for a speech ... but CEOs make too much money.
Lying wench.
The clintons have $3.2 billion in the their slush fund and the state dept is missing $6 billion when Hillary was there. Meanwhile Hillary’s brother is on the board of a company that has never turned over a shovel full of dirt that received a gold mine contract in Haiti that a real mining company figures is worth $25 billion. They were frozen out. The other “mining” company also includes a ex president of Haiti.
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