Posted on 05/08/2006 5:36:03 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
The Exxon-Mobil Exec's $400 mil compensation package was accrued over a period of several years. Now, let's say he wanted to give all that money back to the American public.
That figures out to less than $2.00 per person.
Viewed that way, it doesn't seem like the $400 mil has much effect on the price of gas.
You watch so we don't have to. I appreciate that!
You watch so we don't have to. I appreciate that!
Dang!
Good point. I'm curious as to the price rise of my cable bill versus gas prices over the last decade or so. Anyone know of any research?
That actually happened about 100 years ago with J.P. Morgan. Some average Joe wrote him and said he was too rich and he should share his wealth with all Americans. So, J.P. actually sent him a check for about a dollar or so, with a note saying.."OK, here is your share".
True story!
I'd like to stress what a fraud it is for GMA to use 'viewer questions.' Since GMA gets to choose which viewer questions to pose to guests, the exercise is little more than convenient cover for putting the MSM's own opinions in the mouths of others.
Consider that Gibson could surely have found viewer questions along the lines 'how much have consumers been hurt by restrictions on drilling in ANWR and the continental shelf?" But Charlie only picked questions that gave voice to the MSM's penchant for bashing the free-market system.
And I'm sure we don't pay you enough to sit and watch that shlock. Now, where's my checkbook?
Or when I hear a MSM reporter pose a question with the qualifier 'some say'.
I love this part... the moment in every local newscast where they drag us out to a local gas station and get some moron to whine and cry about high gas prices. It's always some toothless hick who has no clue how a free-enterprise market works. "Well I think it's ridiculous... Someone needs to do something about this." He tells this sob story as he is gassing up his big Ford F-250 that probably gets 19 miles a gallon on a good day. And what makes this scene hilarious is they always go to a place like the one single gas station in downtown Dallas where gas is $3.59 a gallon, but costs $2.89 everywhere else within 60 miles. Hey, Bubba... you deserve to get ripped off if you're that stupid. The price of a barrel of oil has exceeded your IQ.
The news media then explains how families are being "gouged". These are the same families that have no problem buying a bucket of KFC chicken for $23.99 on the way home from soccer practice, driving their 17 MPG SUV in heavy stop-and-go traffic with the a/c running full blast, drinking their $5 Starbucks cappucino. But ask them to pay an extra $10 a week for the convenience of fast, safe travel and they howl and wail and gnash their teeth like a Muslim reading the comics.
"Honey, i was just channel surfing when you happened to walk in during that soft-core porn movie on Cinemax! Honest, I was looking for the baseball game!"
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The whole talking head business should be outsourced. Why pay an airhead like Katie 17 million when you could get some educated Indian lady for 50 grand a year?
The only reason to have a news reader on the tube is for the blind. It drives me nuts, just have written reports scrolling down the screen, and I could get all the news in a few minutes instead of an hour.
Charlie must have missed that lesson in business. Also, I'm sure he wants all the companies that he owns stock in to totally ignore their shareholders and just make the consumers happy. Why just yesterday I read Apple is going to start giving iPods away and that ABC will be charging advertisers nothing to air their commercials!
A coke was 5 cent when I was a kid. We raised cane when they went to 6 cent.
"He tells this sob story as he is gassing up his big Ford F-250 that probably gets 19 miles a gallon on a good day. "
I would love to get 19 mpg. I get 14 in the city with my jeep grand cherokee with the high output V8 engine. Then again I am a rich evil conservative who can afford it. Usually I never turn off the engine, I just leave it idle all day. To fight global warming I just leave the window open and keep the AC on, and the envirowackos still complain.
When is Charlie Gibson going to rag out the executives of automobile manufacturing companies? The cost of an average new automobile has far outpaced inflation and even the price of oil over the past 25 years.
I was just waiting for the Seinfeld comment.
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