re: #149 Skip Intro

Wait a minute here. I’d consider that as a last option, after the CEO’s salary, benefits, and assets were attached, along with those of everyone else in senior management and the board of directors, to cover the shortfall.

Why should they be able to slink off unscathed and financially whole while the obligations they were responsible for go unpaid? There’s no way I’d agree that they can just dump them on the government’s back without first doing everything possible to make the pension fund whole.

It’s not just “unscathed and financially whole”; if the Wright and Tilton histories belong to the same timeline, Tilton was more than made whole — his total compensation frigging skyrocketed the year after the pension fund went bust.

This “I’m entitled to everything and you’re entitled to nothing” mentality pisses me off to no end.

I don’t think there was anything intrinsically wrong with President Bush’s “growing the pie” metaphor, but when you grow the pie and the guys up top still take everything, all the rest of us are left with are nothing but crumbs.