Tired of getting raped at the pump?

Skogen · Post by **Skogen** » April 17, 2006, 1:04 pm

This should make you feel better:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1841989

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » April 17, 2006, 1:33 pm

Any other company doing something like that for a retiring CEO would hardly be noticed. He helped turn the company into what it is now, and they are rewarding him for it.

Skogen · Post by **Skogen** » April 17, 2006, 1:34 pm

Boogahz wrote:Any other company doing something like that for a retiring CEO would hardly be noticed. He helped turn the company into what it is now, and they are rewarding him for it.

Because in our society, gasoline is not your average good or service sold.
America is a car culture....and that culture needs gas to run.

Siji · Post by **Siji** » April 17, 2006, 2:28 pm

Just imagine how many poverty level families that could employ or feed outright.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » April 17, 2006, 3:00 pm

Skogen wrote:
Boogahz wrote:Any other company doing something like that for a retiring CEO would hardly be noticed. He helped turn the company into what it is now, and they are rewarding him for it.
Because in our society, gasoline is not your average good or service sold.
America is a car culture....and that culture needs gas to run.

I wasn't trying to justify the reward he was being given.

Post by **Xouqoa** » April 17, 2006, 3:45 pm

Siji wrote:Just imagine how many poverty level families that could employ or feed outright.

go go capitalism

Arborealus · Post by **Arborealus** » April 17, 2006, 3:51 pm

I dunno nigh on half a billion is pretty darn noticeable.

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » April 17, 2006, 3:59 pm

Socialism now! (with free Enterprise of course

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Post by **Xouqoa** » April 17, 2006, 4:32 pm

Marbus wrote:Socialism now! (with free Enterprise of course )

I don't know if that would really work either.

Capitalism is great on paper, just like most economic systems. It's just unfortunate that people can't be more altruistic with their success. Who the fuck needs $500 million dollars? I mean really, what are you going to do with all that money?

I like to think that if I ever had a ridiculous amount of money I'd be pretty generous with it, but who knows. Maybe I'd turn into a prick too.

redeemed · Post by **redeemed** » April 17, 2006, 4:49 pm

too much money makes you grow tiny horns and a forked tail.. this is a fact, however, once these grow the evil money peoples just pay to have them surgically removed

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » April 17, 2006, 5:08 pm

Boogahz wrote:Any other company doing something like that for a retiring CEO would hardly be noticed. He helped turn the company into what it is now, and they are rewarding him for it.

you're fine with him being rewarded for price fixing and bribing the government to allow them to get away with it?

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » April 17, 2006, 5:29 pm

IMHO a Government that is truly for the people by the people is one that will, with the help of the people, set some limits on personal compensation. However America is not that country... as a society we can't praise and idolize the movie star who makes $10M per film and think that they somehow diserve that because they can read some lines off a peice of paper. The same holds true for sports and large corporations.

We barley fund public education then wonder why our kids can't compete? We pay our policemen shit then wonder why there is so much corruption? These aren't difficult problems to solve, we just have to be willing to solve them... the willing is the difficult part as those in power are in power (this goes for both Dems and Reps) because they had the money and/or financial backing to get there. True reform will never happen in our 2 party system and we are years away from anything else...

Marb

Markulas · Post by **Markulas** » April 17, 2006, 7:36 pm

It seems so strange that people actually benefit from the peak of a natural resource that harms the environment. I personally would rather to the government allocate the money gained from the supply and demand rather than having the rich get richer. Capitalism seems so damn cold sometimes.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » April 17, 2006, 7:52 pm

kyoukan wrote:
Boogahz wrote:Any other company doing something like that for a retiring CEO would hardly be noticed. He helped turn the company into what it is now, and they are rewarding him for it.
you're fine with him being rewarded for price fixing and bribing the government to allow them to get away with it?

Where in my post did I say it was ok?

Tyek · Post by **Tyek** » April 17, 2006, 10:12 pm

You did not Boog, you made a valid point that many exec's that retire get balloon payments as thanks for years of service. You never implied it was a good thing, and you definitely did not imply that you supported it. In fact you even pointed out you did not say you supported it, but if Kyou actually read people's posts she couldn't come up with all those quippy one liners.

It's much easier to attack then to actually notice something posted pretty clearly I guess.