Comments on: Bush Takes Aim At Huge CEO Pay

President Touts Good Economic News While Acknowledging Anger Over Executive Salaries

[inventagod]

OK, Mr. Bu$h - Let's start at the top. You're FIRED!

[clemenhagen1]

At least Jessie James used a gun when he robbed, these CEO's use a pin. Posted by mjv2944

MJV: "It's through this world you'll ramble, you'll see lots of funny men, some will rob you with a six-gun & some with a fountain pen...It's through this world you'll ramble and through this world you'll roam, you won't ever see an outlaw drive a family from it's home."

Woody Guthrie - "The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd"

Great song - great post - sad how the song remains the same throughout all these decades.

[fascistusa]

Our Government is FASCIST.

NOTHING will change unless we REVOLT. Nothing.

Our News is Propoganda.

All the ideas and all the ******** in the World will NOT CHANGE A THING.

REVOLUTION IS INEVITABLE.

[oxmyx-2009]

ANOTHER FAKE ECONOMY- like the Reagan years. Wall street thieves gleefully making it hand over fist
while the middle class is watching decent jobs dissappear, losing its health coverage and pensions and falling into poverty more and more every year. We're all just beasts of burden to be ridden by the rich as empowered by their perennial protectors- the republicans.

[exusmcsgt]

President Bush took aim Wednesday at lavish salaries and bonuses for corporate executives, standing on Wall Street to issue a sharp warning for corporate boards to "step up to their responsibilities" and tie compensation packages to performance.

This man has the audacity to publicly ask for a tie between compensation and performance? How do you spell HYPOCRITE?

[noloyalisti]

All Bush and his conservative cronies want is to spread privatization to this country and to the world. His policies over the last 6 years is to concentrate as much wealth as possible in the hands of the CEOs of the companies that are supporting his criminal party. His lies don't fool anyone.

[dixiebobh]

What to do with Bush? There is nothing short of impeachment that will amount to a thing. Is there sufficient hard evidence to accomplish impeachment? I have no idea.

This I do know. The American people are fed up -many dangerously so. A calmer, more intellegent tact will be more helpful in the long run, than cussing and raising print hell.

[fleshmonger6]

When he is standing in front of those who have all taken advantage of our country and it's people at some lavish dinner, he tells them that this is a gathering of the finest people in our country, "the haves and the have-more's" Then when it suits him, he stands in front of the people upon whose back's all that lavish wealth is derived and then tells us that there needs to be some kind of responsibility by the same people he lauds over in their presence... I only wish more people were thinking enough not to fall for this kind of baseless propaganda.

[j-whitman]

Bush's new appointee to run our Nations Security comes from the defense contracting industry & made millions on top of millions from our tax payers.

[blondmadison]

They pay CEO's top dog salaries and the CEO's shmooze Wall Street for insider tips in trading and off they go into millionaire and billionaire status while the average employee loses retirement, pensions and investment accounts investing their time, energy and funds into a "company"? Or, into the owners, board members and upper managements personal bank accounts?

And this is called fair market "business" and "land of opportunity"? Gag me. How about ROBBERY with a suit and tie instead of a mask and gun?

[cathaleen]

Didn't he at one time refer to these people as his base?

[walt1944-2009]

Working in corporate environments, I know full well how corporate executives are over-payed, over-perked, but definitely not over-worked! That's what they have the clerical staff for. One Executive VP I know took a limo to and from work every day while his car was in the shop, for 2 weeks at $1,000 a day. Company paid for naturally! This is just one example and you know it goes on a lot everywhere you go. Companies are making big profits, but it stays at the top and gets spent at the top. As for Bush, he should talk! If he were paid based on performance, he would be owing the government instead of having us tax payers supporting him for the rest of his life. As if he needs it!!

[j-whitman]

I'm watching these idiots on Wall street welcoming Bush,,,,, SHAME, SHAME - That show's America's Yellow Backbone,, The cowardly SOB ran from active duty & was found guilty of Savings & Loan Fraud 2 times.

[j-whitman]

And Bush wants "Line Item Veto" & "Fast Track" --- BAD IDEA

[mjv2944]

At least Jessie James used a gun when he robbed, these CEO's use a pin. What a bunch of BS that they pay these thieves that kind of money and bonuses with out tieing it to profitability. No matter how lousy a job they do, they still make the big bucks and bonuses. It borders on being criminal.

[j-whitman]

ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING -- THAT ENRON SOB CAN'T STOP LYING

[luvny-2009]

What a line of $hit our of Bush's mouth that is. He's ONE OF THEM! Not to mention what we'll have to pay him for the rest of his slime life.

[antoniof123]

This is the main reason why those CEO's just keep getting more and more because of idiots like Bush.

[agnim]

What's driving these unconscionable salaries are UNMITIGATED GREED AND SELFISHNESS on the part of average CEO!

It they would only share the companies' accumulated wealth with the WORKERS who help to create the wealth, things wouldn't be so bad. But this greed and selfishness on the part of the typical CEO is despicable.

[maiingan]

So what? I just want to know when the politicians are going to do something to end long-term unemployment among college graduates who have no crime or drug records.