CEO's make a ton of money. I've been in business all my life and I see it constantly. I'll also say, they deserve it. Sorry. They deserve to make more than a guy driving a bus. They work 20 hours a day and are accountable to millions of people. They make a ton of money and pay a ton of taxes. There is a huge cost with that sort of pay. It's not like they're working 9-5 with 2 hours for lunch and making that kind of money.
I teach my kids all the time that someone, somewhere, will always have more than you will. It's not a crime. Don't feel entitled. Earn what you get.
Clinton has no appreciation for business. She's never worked in a corporation. Never been accountable for employing people or reporting to shareholders. And corporations are already NOT getting a tax deduction for Executive Pay, so she can't go after them.
Sometimes life is unfair. It's not up to government to play Peter Pan. Education is the silver bullet. Lift these people up so that they don't HAVE to drive a bus. (or worse)
Attacking CEO's will accomplish nothing. It's mind boggling to me to think that there are "smart" people in D.C. who believe it will.
Big talk for someone getting $300,000 for a speech!
LOL. Every deranged liberal knows that Hillary! is in the hip pocket of any crony-capitalist CEO who will make a big donation to her campaign or foundation and that these “attacks” are just BS until the election is over. That’s the one cold comfort I’d have if this witch ever became president. The Left would be so disappointed that they’d go insane.
A rich person talking to poor people about the evils of rich people. Classic.
I find it amusing that they attack CEO’s but let the athletes slide. Just what is the average tenure of a CEO? I compare the two.
No word about Urban Meyer, (OSU Football Coach) signing a contract worth $6.5M/yr. Someone should challenge them on their ‘inequality’ statements.
Attacking CEO’s will accomplish nothing.
Agreed.
I can’t think of ANY one who doesn’t work for someone richer than they are.
Who could possibly be surprised by this?
Caren Bohan, Emily Flitter and Amanda Becker
So 3 dizzy leftist/Democrat broads shilling for the big H over at Roto-Reuters, I imagine with communications degrees and indoctrinated to the point where she appears as conservative as Maggie Thatcher by comparison.
But even taking that into account, how could a non-hysterical person with a passing familiarity with the Socratic method ever be surprised at that statement from an old-school red who wants "to take those profits... for the common good?"
The answer of course, is the usual corruption.
This coming from a person who refuses to give a 1-hour speech for less than $250,000.
What is worse, CEOs who keep a company afloat to keep jobs going, create jobs in the private industry, or a woman who becomes a multi-multi millionaire through the taxpayer? There is gall then there is Hitlery Clinton. What was that story a few months ago? Her demand that 65 secret service agents fly up to Cananda with her so she could give a speech for $300,000. You think any of that $300,000 went to pay for all those SS agents? Yeah right
“American families were still facing financial hardship at a time “when the average CEO makes about 300 times what the average worker makes.”
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._H._Boetcker
What you say is absolutely true. What gets me is all those CEO’s she denigrates will line up all the way around a Wall Street block to give her millions of dollars either for her foundation or her election. I do not understand why every damn one of them do not give money to true capitalists instead of a communist???
Same song they have been singing for decades.
Next to the climate change crap, evil CEOs making a lot of money is a mainstay issue for the progressives/Libs/Dems.
Notice how many CEOs and corporations have made out very lucratively under those same progressives/Libs/Dems.
Hypocrisy, but they still get away with the doublespeak.
What a CEO is paid is for the Board of Directors and company stockholders to decide—No one else.
The ‘left wing of the Democrat party’?????
What other wing is there?
On the topic of CEO pay: Hillary certainly has hubris.
Her totally no-talent daughter is being paid $600,000 a year to be a director of the the Clinton Foundation.
I don’t think there is another place in the entire USA who would pay Chelsea even $60,000 a year if they didn’t know who she was & she had to EARN a SALARY on her own.
My brother built a company literally from the ground up. Bought the land—built the building—bought the desks, chairs, computers, etc. Hired the best persons he could find. He worked 7 days a week often. This continued for over 24 years.
When he finally retired, he was paying himself a bit over $200,000 a year, and he was a Sub-S corp, so all the taxes flowed thru to him-—after Corp taxes were paid.
He had as many as 65 on payroll at any one time. Staff was working 2 shifts at certain times of the year.
That is how this country works-—
There is no success built into the Clinton methods.
Let’s see her cut Chelsea’s pay first———and cut it to about $50,000. (Still overpaid). Also-— have her stop the Clinton Foundation from taking millions of dollars from people from other countries.
SCAM is the middle name of all the Clinton’s.
Hillary should reduce CEO pay at the Clinton Foundation and save millions in kickbacks.
***..voiced concern about the hefty paychecks of some corporate executives in an email to supporters.***
Strange. In my understanding, CEOs get a stipend to live on, and then they are voted lots of company stock as their pay. Such stock must be approved by the stock holders.
If the CEO manages the company right, all the stock will increase in value. If they fail, the stock value will decrease.
We always watched the CEO to see when he would dump his stock, usually when he had done so well to increase the value of the company and company stock.
When he dumped his stock and took the money, we dumped what little we had as we knew the stock would then tank for a while.
So she IS worried about Fiorina.
As long as CEO pay is generated by performance factors whatever it ends up to be is fine with me. Delivering value to stockholders is the key.