Ummm… sounds commendable. Just make sure it doesn’t TAKE you to a little thing I like to call shadow-government approved genocide; AKA “Eugenics”. I mean… COME ON! Did you ever wonder… “Do robots dream of electric sheep?” See you in Hell, with Hitler and a Pine-apple! lol XD

As much as I would like to stay on the far right with Toronto Chris and let the free market work its own magic on corporate salaries, I fear that greed will rule the day. I have absolutley no problem with anyone who makes a huge amount of money. I feel that everyone in this country has ample oppurtunity to gain as much success as they can within their own abilities. Not everyone has what it takes to manage a compnay, let alone a vast multi-national company. In short, everyone is allowed to rise to the level of their own incompetence.

That being said, the disparity between executive pay and worker pay is rather appalling to me. I am still hesitant to agree to governement controls though. Businesses need to be free to pay the right amounts to get the talent they need, but at the same time need to excercise some restraint.

I posted this as my status on Facebook the other day to see what kind of responses I would get, “The average CEO’s salary in the US is 475 times greater than the average worker’s salary. In Japan, it’s 11 times greater, in France 15, Canada 20, South Africa 21, and Britain 22.” The responses were about what I would expect, liberals were all about how unfair this practice was and many of the Republicans came out harshly in favor of a free market system without regard to these numbers.

Chris, strangely enough European and Asian companies stay competitive with American companies without this disparity, so why do you feel it is justifiable in our system.

Your argument against Rich is that the top business minds will remain at the helm of companies, to keep them competitive, if this trend is allowed to continue. Well, Secretary-General Angel Gurri of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) stated that, “Greater income inequality stifles upward mobility between generations, making it harder for talented and hardworking people to get the rewards they deserve, it polarizes societies, it divides regions within countries, and it carves up the world between rich and poor.” (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27295405/)

Additionally Chris, in 2005 a study was done by interviewing 1,000 members of the American Economists Assoc. and 71% said that the income disparity that I cited above was unsustainable and that a redistribution of wealth was necessary to the sound advancement of our economy. 81 % stated that this was an appropriate action for our government to take.

I am not necessarily for that, but seeing as we all talk about accountability, don’t you think it is appropriate that the Captain of the ships that were saved from sinking because of the Governments intervention should offer up a portion (salaries are not included) their much-greater-than meager incomes because they failed to perform and otherwise would be on the streets without a job? It is technically a small price to pay in this financial climate.