PFB - well this one needs some popcorn

[Andara Bledin]

But I don't like witch hunts, and there's a lot of that going on in America lately. CEOs are not the enemy.

It's going to keep getting worse until the people at the bottom (which is something like 1/3 of the country's population at this point) stop feeling like they're helpless and repressed.

CEO's aren't really the right target, but they're highly visible and they're the "bar" that most everybody else measures themselves against.

^-.-^

[Rapscallion]

I don't think they're the enemy, but the gap in their wages and those of their workers is the real issue. It's the ratio of earning that's at the heart of this. From what I understand, this gap is growing - causing an effective underclass that cannot afford to educate itself out of the lower status they find themselves born into.

In short, the CEOs are going for everything they can get. In a capitalist society, this isn't unusual or anything you can really blame people for. However, the gap between rich and poor is growing. The ratios are skewed too far.

Rapscallion

[mikoyan29]

I don't think they're the enemy, but the gap in their wages and those of their workers is the real issue. It's the ratio of earning that's at the heart of this. From what I understand, this gap is growing - causing an effective underclass that cannot afford to educate itself out of the lower status they find themselves born into.

In short, the CEOs are going for everything they can get. In a capitalist society, this isn't unusual or anything you can really blame people for. However, the gap between rich and poor is growing. The ratios are skewed too far.

Rapscallion

I presume that a number of the CEOs have read history books because they might want to brush up on what happens when that gap gets to be too much.

Anyways, there was a pretty interesting article in the Washington Post either yesterday or Sunday about the Capital Gains tax. Mainly because that is one of the vehicles where finances are getting out of whack.