Credit Crisis Sharpens Anger Over CEO Pay

Submitted By Trader Mark
Expect a lot more of this in the coming year as more and more ordinary Americans are "left behind". And the Heads We Win, Tails We Still Win continues at the top of corporate America. Again, let me throw out the hairbrained idea of if like Germany we limit executive compensation to say 50x the median worker. (they limit it to 7x) "Free market" capitalists will say, then the "best and brightest" will leave. I ask - to where? The only exclusions would be people who founded their own company and thus can enjoy the fruits of their labor as they take their company public - the shares they get at IPO should more than make for enough wealth for 50-100 people. Then if they are unhappy with the 50 to 1 ratio for CEO pay they can leave and start a new company - which would be good for US innovation. Most of the rest of the CEOs are highly paid babysitters. Is Coke really going to go out of business if some guy in middle management ran it? I know it won't change - and after a year or two of anger things will continue on their old path, but just asking the questions - i.e. how can German companies stay in business of they are led by such incompetents who somehow only made 7x the average wage? And ... do you think the median wage in America would go up if the CEOs own wage was tied to the median in their company? I think that answer is very easy to figure out....

Let the shareholders decide? We've tried that system for a long while and it hasn't done a thing. Other than Carl Icahn and a few others who actually try to buck the system, it's broken. Most shareholders with scale are institutions who don't want to get involved in this, their job is to make money - not be corporate activists.
  • Arizona design teacher Marsha Minniss believes the culture of paying sky-high salaries to U.S. executives is "insane." Public health director Paul Pisinski from Massachusetts thinks multi-million dollar payouts for CEOs are "unfair" and "unwarranted" as a global financial crisis deepens. Minniss, who was out shopping in upscale Scottsdale, Arizona, agreed. "The whole thing's insane and I think the average American feels that way." (note to Ms Minniss - the average American however does not pay for the political parties or lobbyists)
  • Texan market stall holder Alan Smythe just wishes someone would pay him a million dollars to run a Wall Street financial firm into the ground. "They gave the guy from (American International Group) $40 million. Give me a million and I'll run it into the ground faster than that, I'll run it into the ground in six months," he said.
  • The United States places a high value on the pursuit of wealth and many speak of the American Dream in which anyone can achieve riches and success through hard work—and resentment toward the rich is comparatively rare. But as U.S. lawmakers consider a $700 billion bailout for Wall Street using public money, many on Main Street are turning against the culture of lavish executive pay, analysts say.
  • Last year CEOs of companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 index on average took in $10.5 million in pay, 344 times that of the typical U.S. worker, according to the Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy
  • "It's an issue that people are outraged about across the political spectrum," said Sarah Anderson, an IPS analyst specializing in executive pay. "The public feel outraged, but they feel disempowered. They don't know what they can do about it," she said.
  • Up until now, the justification for golden CEO payouts has been that they recognize performance in a competitive international market. But as firms buckle under in the present crisis, and taxpayers are being asked to pick up the tab for some of their worst errors, many Americans are questioning that long held belief.
  • "I do not think it holds up," Pisinski told Reuters. "I don't think it's fair, I don't think it's warranted for anybody to be paid the bonuses and benefits that they have received, especially in light of the fact that they seem to be rewarded for failure."
  • "I don't see that leaving it to shareholders has led us anywhere. Shareholders, all they care about are their profits," she said.
  • "People that work hard and start their own companies, if they make a lot of money, great. But if they're not doing a good job, then no," she said, although she drew the line at laws to curb executive pay. I just wish (executives would) have a conscience and take care of the people who work for them."
50 to 1... if they are unhappy with that go start a new business with your "1 in a million type of abilities" or go to another country to be CEO where you will get far less than 50 to 1. The United States was somehow competitive in the 70s and 80s when it was below 50 to 1... I'm sure we'll find a way to compete under this new "socialistic" rule. ;)

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