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To: pt17
There is a certain degree of honesty that says that you are only entitled to the amount of compensation that you deserve. Anything above and beyond this is stealing. Many people take pride in the fact that they earned a day's wage for a day's work.

How this type of people can steal from the shareholders and wage earners and grant themselves earnings beyond any reasonable figure is hard to fathom. They can't have any pride in the company and its success. The emphasis has to placed only on themselves. The recent scandals have shown that the typical company, with this type of management, fails because of the capital looted from the business.

This is part of the 'feel good', 'to hell with the other guy' attitude which has taken over our country. The United States cannot survive over a period of time with this attitude. Capitalism does not give license for robbery, which these scandals surely show.

14 posted on 06/29/2002 3:56:57 AM PDT by meenie
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To: meenie
This is part of the 'feel good', 'to hell with the other guy' attitude which has taken over our country

Yes, it seems like a national disease that, IMHO, is being propogated by lack of strength of character and values coupled with an over-relliance on image over substance.
16 posted on 06/29/2002 4:10:44 AM PDT by pt17
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To: meenie
How this type of people can steal from the shareholders and wage earners and grant themselves earnings beyond any reasonable figure is hard to fathom.

Oddly enough, it wasn't long ago you would have been flamed by many here saying it wasn't any of your business how much a CEO was compensated, nor are YOU capable of determining what a "reasonable figure" is, that they are worth it...they run the country..errr I mean company.

They would be the same ones (globalists) screaming about your high pay and and union wages VS cheap foreign labor .....

OH yea, they'd also be telling you how important it would be for YOU if corporate taxes were eliminated because the poor babies don't have money to invest.

24 posted on 06/29/2002 9:46:34 AM PDT by lewislynn
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To: meenie
How this type of people can steal from the shareholders and wage earners and grant themselves earnings beyond any reasonable figure is hard to fathom.

I was talking with a man yesterday who has lost $100,000 in the stock market (it's times like this that I'm glad I never had much to invest) and his whole retirement is now in jeopardy. Like he said ---why does mugging someone for $100 in their wallet or robbing a bank for $2000 get you jail time but these "white-collar" crooks expect to get off scot-free?

28 posted on 06/29/2002 10:23:37 AM PDT by FITZ
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