Street level target practice.

Let the CEO Punch-In-The-Face Games begin!

Thanks for the PSA! Will do!

More like "hey man, can you spare $36 billion" but hey, who's counting at this point?

@ViperBorg: you know, that might actually be worth a quarter-million.

I'll just take the $400k "retreat" on the taxpayer's dime.

Ha ha! That's funny. Add to the CEOs all the people that Gawker fired.

Funny!

Wanda Sykes has a bit about the whole Enron thing vs. walking through the projects at night. She says "You get mugged, you might lose what you got on that DAY. But I ain't never been mugged of my FUTURE."

HOLY &*(# Main Street Failed!!!
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Ok, just a really small bank named Main Street. Guess I panicked for no good reason.

The best panhandling sign I've ever seen was, "Bet you can't hit me with a quarter."

I guess the CEO version is, "Bet you can't hit me with a gold brick."

Allegory - - - or I just like "Migraine Boy"???

Does anyone here think that they can make CEO pay more reasonable? For instance, buy up stock in a company and then as a shareholder make the CEO take a reasonable pay package?

Just asking...

@MayorBee is getting what plants crave: LOL

@humphrmi:
The problem is you pretty much need to have the same kind of money that they do in order to get that kind of control. And even then you'd probably never be able to do more than one or two companies.

The fact that high-level executives can make gobs of money without ever really having a stake in the long-term (or in some cases, even short-term) health of their company is one of the biggest (but not the only) causes of EVERYTHING WRONG WITH THE ECONOMY EVER. It is a problem that only government (or maybe a killing decades-long "in the long run we're all dead" depression) can solve. Maybe it can be done just with threats? There's no time like the present.

What we have now is a perversion of the capitalist ideal of risk-and-reward. There is no risk being taken, but tremendous reward being granted. The free market cannot protect the very ideals that are invoked to protect the free market.

Jeffrey Brown is a cool guy. Too bad I'm going to miss him at the Windy City Comicon.

Nice!

@humphrmi:
Yeah. Sue the fuckers running the corporation for not doing that which is in the stock holders' best interests.

The disgraced AIG CEO got a $16 million golden parachute and another fired executive is earning $1,000,000 per month as a consultant for doing nothing. I would switch lives with them in a second!