Are you kidding me!?  Capping executive pay at $500k is a joke!   Please explain to me what someone can do to be worth $500k!   How about some real salary caps for these jokers who caused this mess?  Hmm… maybe something more like $200k with the promise of a huge bonus IF they produce results?

It is sad that corporate America has put such a high value on these positions.   Frankly, many of which would not even do their jobs at all if it were not for the support staff keeping them afloat.  Don’t get me wrong, I believe people should be compensated when they produce results.  The compensation should reflect those results and that compensation should be equally distributed to that “team” not just to one individual.  That one individual could not have done their job without the assistance of a lot of other people under them.

Frankly, I believe those financial companies that took bailout money and paid out huge bonuses should not only be ashamed of themselves, they should be forced to return the money and be fired!   In case they weren’t paying attention, here goes; YOUR COMPANY WAS/IS LOSING MONEY, YOU TOOK BAILOUT MONEY, HOW DO YOU CONSIDER THAT WORTH REWARDING WITH A BONUS? 

I believe these high level officials have gotten so used to getting huge sums, they no longer know how to live on a “real” salary.  Most of them reached a point when things in the financial world started to fall apart where they said “oh no, how will we make it?”  This of course justified for them to continue to take bonuses that they no longer truly earned any more.  Many of them had developed such lavish lifestyles that they would have to give up completely without the bonuses to support them.    All I can say is, poor baby, learn to live with less, the rest of us have to!

$500k salary caps?  Give me a break!  How about salary caps which better represent the true value someone brings to the company and not the perceived value.   I strongly believe bonuses have their place, when the company is doing well and wants to share the wealth with those that made it successful.  Rewarding people for just being there and holding a high position in the company or being a ”name” of importance in the industry is just so wrong!

Lower the salary caps to about half of what they are, watch those executives work their collective asses off to truly ”earn” their bonuses in order to support a realistic lifestyle and not one which is based around the excess they have grown accustomed to. 

 Oh, and just in case someone says “the owner should be paid whatever they want to be paid” or something along those lines.  I am not referring to business owners.  Business owners (not shareholders) should pay themselves what they think they are worth.  They merely have to remember that they still have a business to run and keep running.  You drain it too much, there is nothing left to help your continuity.  I know many successful business owners who do not live lavish lifestyles and only take a salary for what they truly need to comfortably support their families.

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