Fuel prices supposed to spike!

I guess I agree with most sentiments here because I'm not rich, EXCEPT!

If most of you found yourselves in a ceo position, how long till you began to think in the same manner? I'm saying it's easy to condem a rich person for their actions, but untill you have been there, you don't know what you would do.

Example, The Ex President of the United Way here in the Carolinas, wrote her own contract for pay. She chose to pay herself a huge sum of money, and she was called out for it. It cost the United Way alot of dignity. She was challenged with greed and she lost, I'll step way out on a limb and say I bet she was a liberal. She succumed to the greed. I'm sure she did many good things prior, but her last will be her most remembered.

I appreciate the rich folks that step out and create companies that inturn create jobs and wealth. They must be able to see a light at the end of their tunnel in order for them to place themselves at risk. Their gamble is not always positive. Way more lose than win, SO, there MUST be a large reward for the chances they take.
Poor people create nothing but negative issues with their constant need for a free hand out. Don't get me wrong, ANYONE can find themselves on hard times, but a hard working someone will always dig themselves out. Not create a way of life.

Sorry if I offended anyone, it's just my opinion.
 
I guess I agree with most sentiments here because I'm not rich, EXCEPT!

I'm not rich either, and research has found that most humans cannot think beyond their little world. It is a lot to get a basic overview of the our world, that is why "JayWalking" is so funny.

If most of you found yourselves in a ceo position, how long till you began to think in the same manner? I'm saying it's easy to condem a rich person for their actions, but untill you have been there, you don't know what you would do.

Many here that comment have never started a business, hired, fired, lost all they had trying to start a business, nor for that matter even studied business.


Example, The Ex President of the United Way here in the Carolinas, wrote her own contract for pay. She chose to pay herself a huge sum of money, and she was called out for it. It cost the United Way alot of dignity. She was challenged with greed and she lost, I'll step way out on a limb and say I bet she was a liberal. She succumed to the greed. I'm sure she did many good things prior, but her last will be her most remembered.

Is it possible she paid herself what what she was worth on the open market? The amount others would pay her to do the same work for their company?

I appreciate the rich folks that step out and create companies that inturn create jobs and wealth. They must be able to see a light at the end of their tunnel in order for them to place themselves at risk. Their gamble is not always positive. Way more lose than win, SO, there MUST be a large reward for the chances they take.
Poor people create nothing but negative issues with their constant need for a free hand out. Don't get me wrong, ANYONE can find themselves on hard times, but a hard working someone will always dig themselves out. Not create a way of life.

Well stated.

Sorry if I offended anyone, it's just my opinion.

Comment in RED above. MM
 
Just for the record. I have read Atlas Shrugged. I made the statement to illustrate how the book seems to paralell the depravity of times we live in. Maybe we need a Wyatt's Torch event to get Washington to take some notice. Glad to see that there are some Ayn Rand fans though.:thumbsup:
 
Honestly I don't think the attention that the CEO pay thing gets is warranted and I get tired of hearing the word 'greed'. When I was a kid and the plate of pork chops was passed around I alway tried to grab the biggest one, what's wrong with that? Some one was going to get it, why not me? The large salaries of a couple hundred large company CEO's has everyone in a tizzy. How about the tens of thousands of other companys? It would be interesting to see a study on CEO compensation based on company income and profits. Walmarts CEO gets 18-20mil, lets make him work for free and we'll disperse his salary among the 1.5 million employees...now they make 12-13 bucks more each yr...does it matter. Have all the employees financial problems been solved? What if he made 200mil a year and we give that away, the employees would get another 135 bucks a year.:huh:
 
Breaking News! As expected, the White House has rejected the Keystone Pipeline Permits

Right. Totally expected.

Better to campaign saying "Obama rejected the pipeline" than "We are developing a better pipeline route that doesn't upset Nebraska's Business friendly Republican Government";

This is exactly why the Republicans forced the early decision.
 
Right. Totally expected.

Better to campaign saying "Obama rejected the pipeline" than "We are developing a better pipeline route that doesn't upset Nebraska's Business friendly Republican Government";

This is exactly why the Republicans forced the early decision.

Actually Republicans were in a heads I win tails you lose. This decision can be campaigned on and it further hurts Obama with working class Democrats. This also shows how beholden to the enviro lobby he is, as several unions wanted this. MM
 
Yes; I agree. No way would a President let Congress push him around this way. Actually. . . I would argue that this was actually the Congressional Republican's desired outcome. As I said above: the decision was no surprise.

Funny how unions wanted the approval and Republicans (at the state level) were opposed.

I don't really think this changes anything; I am sure this will go through once the routing is changed; as was stated last fall.
 

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