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Sidney Poitier: Cap CEO Salaries In Hollywood and Everywhere Else
CNSNews.com ^ | Thursday, February 19, 2009 | Nicholas Ballasy

Posted on 02/19/2009 4:21:45 PM PST by TaoOfSteve

Academy award-winning actor Sidney Poitier told CNSNews.com that the salaries of CEOs everywhere, not just those of U.S. banks, should be capped at $500,000 per year. At the beginning of February, President Obama put a $500,000 per year cap on the salaries of bank CEOs as part of the $700 billion financial bailout.

When asked if the salaries of CEOs in Hollywood should be capped at $500,000 per year given the current economic crisis, Poitier said the cap should not be restricted to just Hollywood or U.S. banks.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: bailout; ceo; hollywood; obama; paycap; poitier; socialists
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Excellent. In the fascist feeding frenzy, their duller lights are starting to eat their own. Go Sidney!
1 posted on 02/19/2009 4:21:46 PM PST by TaoOfSteve
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To: TaoOfSteve

why not ALL salaries??


2 posted on 02/19/2009 4:22:12 PM PST by GeronL (Hey, won't you be my Face Book friend??)
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To: TaoOfSteve

good little brownshirt


3 posted on 02/19/2009 4:23:14 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: TaoOfSteve

A-men! Cap actor salaries! Or just cap ‘em!


4 posted on 02/19/2009 4:23:37 PM PST by dr_who
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To: GeronL

Actors salary’s should also be capped at 500K/year, not just per movie. let them live in the world they want to create for others.


5 posted on 02/19/2009 4:24:28 PM PST by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: TaoOfSteve; Bender2

Can’t wait till he tells his “buds” in the Screen Actors Guild that their salaries will be capped at $500,000....oh, you mean that does not apply to them?


6 posted on 02/19/2009 4:26:05 PM PST by big'ol_freeper ("From hell's heart I stab at thee... I spit my last breath at thee." ~ Khan Noonien Singh)
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To: TaoOfSteve

Poitier and Danny Glover are two of the dumbest people on the planet. Yes, people are always sticking a microphone in their face and asking them to pontificate on subjects their pea-sized brains can’t even begin to understand.

Sydney, stick to pretending to be someone else for a living and leave global financial policy to people that aren’t on the short bus.


7 posted on 02/19/2009 4:26:30 PM PST by Big_Monkey
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To: MPJackal

make them live in public housing too, and take the bus


8 posted on 02/19/2009 4:26:50 PM PST by GeronL (Hey, won't you be my Face Book friend??)
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Yes their should be caps on what Actors and Actesses get for film work!


9 posted on 02/19/2009 4:26:54 PM PST by classified
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To: classified

pay the extra’s in table scraps


10 posted on 02/19/2009 4:28:13 PM PST by GeronL (Hey, won't you be my Face Book friend??)
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To: TaoOfSteve

Does that cap include salaries of actors?


11 posted on 02/19/2009 4:29:26 PM PST by psjones (u)
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A-men! Cap actor salaries! Or just cap ‘em!

Give it just a bit more time. The Party Purges must begin before they try to attack the Right. There must be unity in the One Party before they take on 60 million of us armed heretics.

Sidney Yezhov will be taken care of by Uncle Adolph Obama's faithful.



12 posted on 02/19/2009 4:29:30 PM PST by TaoOfSteve
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And just how many CEOs would put up with all of the crap they have to put up with, just to make $500,000 a year, especially when they already have enough money saved up to not have to work?


13 posted on 02/19/2009 4:30:56 PM PST by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: big'ol_freeper
Can’t wait till he tells his “buds” in the Screen Actors Guild that their salaries will be capped at $500,000....oh, you mean that does not apply to them?

It's easy for him to say since he hasn't seen the inside of a movie studio for 20 or 30 years.
14 posted on 02/19/2009 4:32:41 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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How about it Sid, perhaps we should retroactively ask all the actors and actresses that have earned more than $500K/year redistribute their weath to those fleckless “home owners” who are unable to pay for their bloated mortgage payments.
15 posted on 02/19/2009 4:32:46 PM PST by blaveda (blaveda)
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To: big'ol_freeper
"From hell's heart I stab at thee... I spit my last breath at thee." ~ Khan Noonien Singh

You know that was Khan quoting Melville? It is a quote within a quote...

16 posted on 02/19/2009 4:33:23 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
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So. Let's see. If the actors get less money, and the management gets less money; and everyone keeps paying $10 (or whatever) to see a movie, who is going to keep all that leftover money?

ML/NJ

17 posted on 02/19/2009 4:33:29 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: TaoOfSteve

To the rice fields with all of them.


18 posted on 02/19/2009 4:33:41 PM PST by kabar
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To: TaoOfSteve

Hey, Sidney, you make some nice money off of your royalties. Why don’t YOU take a pay cut?


19 posted on 02/19/2009 4:34:00 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: ml/nj

Free movies


20 posted on 02/19/2009 4:34:33 PM PST by kabar
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