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2007-11-12 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-11-12 05:11|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 So he's the Prince formerly known as "chairman"?

Posted by Mike 2007-11-12 08:28|| 2007-11-12 08:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Gee, if you make me chairman of Citibank - I will let you fire me for half the price.

Posted by 3dc 2007-11-12 10:37|| 2007-11-12 10:37|| Front Page Top

#3 This golden parachute bullshit needs to end. CEOs need to produce like everyone one else, and if they can't cut it then they need to piss off and get fired like everyone else. Go stand in the unemployment line, asshat.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-11-12 10:40|| 2007-11-12 10:40|| Front Page Top

#4 welcome to Bush America, you guys voted him in and supported him, now you get to reap the rewards : a new recession and a devalued dollar.

Posted by Uloluper Pelosi1910 2007-11-12 11:14|| 2007-11-12 11:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Somehow I knew someone would blame Bush. This President must be in control of everything. The shear stupidity of that last comment amazes me. NOT. Rewarding CEOs for bad performance precluded the Bush administration by many years.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-11-12 11:20|| 2007-11-12 11:20|| Front Page Top

#6 ENRON!!! Uh yeah, that happened under Clinton's watch?

BTW, the devaluation trajectory began in 1993 with the push to unlimited trade with China. Blame the Arkansas Hillbillies and their buddies, the Waltons.

Posted by ed 2007-11-12 11:38|| 2007-11-12 11:38|| Front Page Top

#7 I dont blame Bush, just his cronie string pullers who represent the elite of corporate America. To say this isnt true is to be putting your head in the sand. But, a sandy head wont help your impoverished ass when the financial they've so carefully laid in the US economy, GOES OFF, BOOM! all the middle class Americans are suddenly lower class americans with not much of a pot to piss in.

Posted by Claique McCoy1045 2007-11-12 13:45|| 2007-11-12 13:45|| Front Page Top

#8 with a very small or non existant middle class, the "elites" of corporate America can really get down to work. the only problem is, you dont want to kill the golden goose, just clip its wings a bit, therin lies the tricky part.

Posted by Claique McCoy1045 2007-11-12 13:47|| 2007-11-12 13:47|| Front Page Top

#9 One of the nice things about America is that the class warfare thingy just doesn't work here. The statistics show our class structure is more like a rolling boil than a layer cake, with people moving from poor to middle class to rich -- and the other way round -- over the course of decades, if not generations. A great many corporate senior vice presidents were the first one in their families to go to college.

With a very small middle class, the elites of corporate America would have no educated employees to do the work. Look at Pakistan or Mexico, or anywhere in the Third World, really. That's what economies look like without a large middle class. Honestly, Claique McCoy1045, even I know that much, and I'm just a little suburban housewife with no understanding of financial matters at all (much to Mr. Wife's dismay).

Posted by trailing wife 2007-11-12 14:26|| 2007-11-12 14:26|| Front Page Top

#10 corporations in america dont need educated employees as much as they once did, what with overseas outsourcing, also, corporations are not beholden to one country or another, they exist seperately and can change their "nationalities" at will, an example would be Halliburton, it is a Bahamian Company these days. Just wait and see what happens by the end of the reign of King George, just you want. smugness will avail you nothing trailing wife.

Posted by Claique McCoy1045 2007-11-12 14:32|| 2007-11-12 14:32|| Front Page Top

#11 McCoy, as one of the middle-class educated employees that you seem to think are about to evaporate, I can only say that that your left-wing, cartoon-grade stereotypes of the corporate world literally scream your total ignorance. You're rude too.

Posted by Darrell 2007-11-12 15:50|| 2007-11-12 15:50|| Front Page Top

#12 with a very small or non existant middle class, the "elites" of corporate America can really get down to work. the only problem is, you dont want to kill the golden goose, just clip its wings a bit, therin lies the tricky part.

LOL, lawz been awhile since we had a stone cold kook show. So are they black or in another dimension?

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-11-12 16:17|| 2007-11-12 16:17|| Front Page Top

#13 Saying Bush or his cronies are in charge of the corporate elite is about as retarded a statement as Bush caused Katrina. I blame the elite board of fucking directors that plays the good 'ol boys club. They look out for each others and make sure the stock doesn't go down too much. Maybe make a profit here and there. Other than that, they don't do much. And thus, their companies either stagnate or only progress through the buying of smaller, more agile and imaginative companies. Rinse, repeat. I don't want a law against it, since I believe in free markets, but big corporate America needs to wake up if they want to keep their nice salaries.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-11-12 17:55|| 2007-11-12 17:55|| Front Page Top

#14 The last time I participated in a free market was when I sold my spare fan belt to a guy with a busted one parked out in the Great American Desert. Made a 170% profit, taxfree.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-11-12 19:36|| 2007-11-12 19:36|| Front Page Top

#15 Good thing you unloaded that spare belt. In my experience, buying a spare belt is a sure way to hasten catastrophic engine/motor failure. And there's a 99.99% chance that the replacement machine will use a different belt. Doesn't matter if it's a car, a lawn mower, or a clothes dryer. It's a universal law.

Posted by Darrell 2007-11-12 20:50|| 2007-11-12 20:50|| Front Page Top

#16 The law you cite has been broken. The guy I encountered out in the desert had the exact same make & model I was driving, the belt was a perfect fit.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-11-12 23:02|| 2007-11-12 23:02|| Front Page Top

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