Correction, both major political parties solicit for donations.
didn't say they weren't both in the pockets of lobbyists and as greedy as a workday is long. I think you misunderstood me, or you have never read my previous posts. I hate all politicians on both sides of the American debate teams. All of them argue solely on behalf of greedy corporations and money mongers. Everything else they do is just posturing and pointless lip service.
And yet, New York has rent control measures in place. The issue is that too many people want to live there even though they clearly cannot afford it.
the fact that a city needs "rent control" shows that something is wrong. Dreadfully, horribly, greeeeeedily wrong.
While many companies do send their jobs overseas, we also get jobs from foreign companies setting up shop here, such as Honda, BMW, Toyota, shall I continue?
Yeah 'cause that's so helpful for our economy. (hit: the majority of that company's profits are not going into the American economy.)
This is pure bull****. As one of the largest employers, Home Depot has about 350,000 employees, full and part time. Payroll for 2009 was around $6B, with its CEO pay and allowances ranging less than $9M. So, yeah, 15% of 1% of the total payroll going to the CEO means he is making more than the rest of the company combined alright. If you take that $9M and divide it amongst the "regular" employees it comes to about $25.7 more a year in income for each person. (I edited due to bad, er, fuzzy math)
Then you have the highest paid CEO, Larry Ellison of Oracle, whose company employs over 105,000, receives pay and allowances over $80M annually. Employee payroll for Oracle is also hovering around $8B, so yeah, Larry is making about 1% of his company's payroll (he is also one of Oracle's creators and owners). If you take Larry's pay and divide it amongst his employees, each one will net an increase of about $800 per year. Keep in mind that most of Oracle's employees are already very well compensated.
You got really up-at-arms about a guy who has no chance at all. Did seeing a political candidate with some integrity infuriate you that much?
No one expects the ceo's to share their wages, no one argued that the people in charge don't deserve to get paid well. What lingers in most Americans minds (sorry the poor ones, you may have to try being poor for a while to develop some empathy..) is where is the divide actually at? the middle ground is being taken away and replaced with more people having to live below the poverty level.
What happened to the range where both parents working full time meant a chance to save up and move forward. Now both parents working full time means they can pay their rent, and maybe juggle their bills most of the time, as long as nothing goes wrong. (no one gets sick first of all.. that'll **** your budget right up in a hurry. Hooray for freerange privatized healthcare! Try not to get cancer or you're ****ed!)
This guy running on the "rent is too damn high" ticket is exactly right, plain and simple. There's no arguing that inflation itself is a sign that something is wrong with the system as it works and the system needs to be changed. Inflation is caused plain and simple by greed. nothing more. there's no validating it, at all, ever. Someone in charge wants to see bigger numbers they start a catalyst of events to cause the numbers to inflate. They profit while the rest of the system catches up, and they stay ahead of the curve.
As for your ceo argument, behind every single fortune is a series of crimes and shady dealings that left others with nothing, or at least substantially less than they started with. Even after they get done robbing and stealing their way to the top of whatever they were doing, for every ceo you can point out who manages to restrain themselves from robbing their employees blind, I could just as easily google one who has gone over the deep end and has been or is currently under investigation for all sorts of over complicated crimes that break down to "being a greedy a-hole" in less polite terminology.
Greed exists. Not everyone (hardly anyone who is wealthy) deserves their wealth. The top 2% of the world DO control FAR more than the other 98% of the world's wealth. Money goes uphill, not down. That stuff coming downhill, that's not money, no matter what those in charge would have you believe.
You pointed out 2 ceo's who manage to remain somewhat sane given their success (and how did they get that success boys and girls?). Pick up a newspaper, I'll bet there are 5 in there on any given day who couldn't keep their greed in check.