Good Old Neon

At the moment, in some cases, from our tax dollars. In case you hadn

Sure, but the IT guy or gal would have to live hundreds and hundreds of lives before he or she could even begin to approach the golden parachute purse many CEO

Given that, more and more often, industry is unable to police itself, the government should step in and set some limits. You can counter by saying that

Yes. Many CEO salaries are now structured in such a way that they are grossly over-compensated even when the company as a whole underperforms, or, as in GM

A spread like that would set you back a cool 500+ G here on the east coast, not including the cars. We

Well sure, but with that sweet bike I bet he

Damn, do you live in a milk carton and drive Boy Scout Pinewood Derby cars?

Though I agree many people live beyond their means, I don

Well said. Dave Eggers struck a similar note in his forward to the tenth anniversary edition of IJ: In recent years, there have been a few literary dustups

It

What is the annual salary of an average car manufacturing schmoe I wonder? And I wonder by what factor an average schmoe

I watched it last night, what a great song. However, and maybe it

The view outside his master bedroom should look something like this:

GM CEO's 2008 compensation valued at $14.9 million http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Intern...how/4230444.cms I mean it

Gorgeous - I'm sure you're well aware of this Bonnie Prince, Scout Niblett duet? It gives me them goosebumps. Oh and this other one - ignore the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuh9e-C7neA

Ahem, and so and ummm...where might a fella come into possession of the Bonnie Prince's new material?

Werd. All bitching aside, the Sisyphusian boulder now baring down on Obama, this country, is propelled by 8 or more years of violently mismanaged momentum.

The idea that Obama represents, or has ever represented real, meaningful change was and is more a fiction dreamed up by for hire Madison Avenue types, than anything having to do with reality. Both parties are entirely beholden to corporate interests - a candidate that represented real, demonstrable change, would never find him or herself at the top of either party. Obama got where he is, because he knows how to play the game. If he truly represented change in the face of entrenched power, he wouldn

GM: 'Substantial doubt' about survival Automaker's annual report says it hopes to get $7.7 billion from the government to remain viable. http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/05/news/compa...M_10K/index.htm I think now might be the time to stop throwing good money after bad, and just let them go.

Happy Birthday!!!

One thing that always sort of confuses me w/r/t conservatives, is how they are usually fairly strict law and order types who tend to believe that humans require laws to ensure that they behave themselves, but then quite conversely, for some reason also tend to believe in deregulation, as if business is some other entity not subject to the same sort of selfish, socially destructive (for the rest of us) whims that often lead the individual to behave vilely where no laws, i.e. regulations, exist. Why is that? If, on the individual level, humans are selfish and cannot be trusted to do the righ

That probably is the most accurate economic indicator at the moment. What happens when we fall below

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