Comments on: Bush Takes Aim At Huge CEO Pay

President Touts Good Economic News While Acknowledging Anger Over Executive Salaries

[elgraz]

IF WE BASED BUSH'S COMPENSATION ON PERFORMANCE, HE WOULD GET A SALARY OF NADA AMIGOS.HE SHOULD GO BACK TO TEXAS BEFORE HIS TERM IS OVER, BEFORE HE DESTROYS OUR USA.

[diverinnl]

tuckerndfw, the higher earners in this country are able to keep on average .47 of each dollar they earn after full taxation (state and fed combined). If you win the lottery, you'll keep on average .75 on each dollar after taxes. Where is the fairness in that? How much of your money are you willing to give up?

[elgraz]

HOW DO ALL OF YOU ON THIS COMMENT SITE HAVE THE TIME TO COMMENT ? DON'T YOU HAVE JOBS AND RESPONSIBILITIES TO YOUR EMPLOYERS ? I KNOW WHO YOU ARE ???? I DON'T HAVE TO WORK BUT YOU DO.

[elgraz]

GEORGE BUSH IS AN INCOMPETENT *******.WHY DID I VOTE FOR THIS MORON ?

[tuckerndfw]

Perhaps people are beginning to understand why robber barons, under the old tax code, were taxed at 93% when their incomes crossed a certain threshold.

If companies have that kind of cash to throw away, it can be better used on roads, schools, police, fire & other government services.

The old tax code needs to be reimplemented with its disincentives to shower unearned money and benefits on people who do not need and did not earn them.

[one_american]

The morons who "live" on this board, who continually bash Bush are so diconnected with any reality, they couldn't find their own butts with both hands.

Sadly, this minority is the lowest common denominator of Americans, and destined to their own failed lives.

[tuckerndfw]

Once again, Bozo Bush proves himself to be a liar, without morals/integrity and demonstrates his supporters are imbeciles.

The overpaid robber barons he is complaining (?) about are the same people Republicans, with his full support & encouragement, have been showering with lavish tax breaks.

Texas Republicans recently shifted the tax burden from wealthy land owners, such as himself & *** Cheney, to cigarette smokers (cigars exempted), demonstrably the poorest Americans as a group.

George Bush is just another spoiled rich frat boy living off a trust fund established by his slimeball, war profiteering grandfather, CT Senator Prescott Bush.

Lying and *** taxpayers seems to run in the Bush family. Stupidity seems to be the common denominator amongst his supporters (who actually work for a living).

[pakaal]

Oh, and between 1950 and now, US unemployment rate has gone up and down between a little over 2% and a little over 9%, with most numbers in the 4-5% range. It went up when Bush was elected, it went down to about 4% in 2000 and by 2003 it was up to 6%. It's gone down in the past couple years, it'll go up again. Historically, the presidents to hope for in terms of actual employee payroll increases have been Democrats. Sorry to break the news, but Bush is certainly not doing any good in terms of the US economy.

[rsoxfan1123]

Oh look, Bush really is for the middle class. this proves it! all of those tax cuts for the extremely wealthy were just a smoke screen for his real agenda, his care for the middle class. I get it now.

[marcodele]

I'm amazed at the hypcrisy of this president. He certainly wasn't against outrageous CEO compensation during his Harken Oil years.

1990: Although Harken has no international expertise, it gets the attention of the Bahrain National Oil Company, which unexpectedly appears on the scene and bypasses big oil's Amoco and Chevron to sign a production agreement with the little Texas concern. The contract grants Harken exclusive rights to what seems to be a promising offshore area squeezed between two productive tracts owned by Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The Wall Street Journal speculates Bahrain was trying to cozy up to Daddy Bush, who was plotting an assault on Iraq after Saddam Hussein seized Kuwait.

Bass Enterprises Production Company finances the Bahrain drilling with $25 million, and Harvard Management raises its investment. A couple of members of the Fort Worth Bass family have places on Team 100, an elite business group contributing to the Republican National Committee.

In June, Harken drills two dry holes in Bahrain. The future looks bleak. Dubya dumps two-thirds of his Harken holdings (212,140 shares), for $848,560. He uses some of this money to buy into the Texas Rangers baseball club. This is a lot of stock to dump on the market all at once, and brokers say it was purchased by an unnamed institutional investor. That August, Harken posts a loss of $23 million.

[pakaal]

badaxmofo wrote: "Which part do you hate more Bush haters: 49 qtrs of GDP growth, 4.6% unempl, or historical low and stable interest rates?"

Not that I hate Bush so much as feel much pity for him, but let's see....

I'd have to say I hate the largest federal deficit ever, smallest job growth cycle ever (from 2001), hundreds of millions wasted on oversight-less projects in Iraq, growing wage disparity, witholding promised funds from public schools and Republicans blocking federal minimum wage increase.

These are a few of my least-favorite things, badaxmofo, thanks for asking.

[generey]

ROFLMMFAO - AGAIN!

Americans - Asleep at the wheel.

[jimfinster]

badaxmofo:

What I hate most are idiots that keep blindly following this President.

[j-whitman]

Badax,,, GDP growth at the cost of our manufacturing & American contractors in Iran helping thier economy, Bushiness & dual purpose semi-conductors sold to Communist China, Not to mention hidden btdgets & no accountablity ??? Bush witholds information we need for any educated answer to that Badax..... Let's wait & see.

[jimfinster]

Remember the video where Bush calls a crowd of super rich folks his "base" ? And his tax cuts targeted for the top 10% ?

How can we take this seriously ?

[fascistusa]

bobgee_1999 -

I love knowing so much about History and Human nature.

I know there were plenty of people like you who stood around George Washington and said, "Never Gonna Happen."

REVOLUTIONS HAPPEN.

IT"S ALREADY STARTED.

[jsilver2th]

El Presidentes idea of populism: Shaking hands on Wall Street where the little people congregate.

[bobgee_1999]

fascistusa: Inevitable in this country? Too many fat people are too content with thinking themselves rebels and being told how free they are, thrilling to quarrels between Rosie & Trump and glimpses of Paris's snatch while their civil rights disappear. Never gonna happen.

[mahasana]

LIAR, CON MAN, SNAKEOIL SALESMAN, HYPOCRITE, THIEF, MURDERER. How can anyone approve his handling of anything? Nobody knows what's what anyway. He tells the country that the economy is rising but leaves out the part "only for the mega-wealthy and the rest get nothing"

And this so-called "Surge." It is just ground troop placement for Iran. Could be a nuclear war with this demon in charge, who the hell knows. And, while I'm at it, he is about as "born-again" as the fleas on my dog's ***.

[exusmcsgt]

clemenhagen1-

I'll add Don Henley's line from "Gimme What You Got".

"A man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun".....