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The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

RE: We're all being screwed by the man!

Every time some corporate CEO takes home $2,000,000, every employee in the entire company is being screwed!! First of all, no one is worth that kind of money. And that salary is coming out of everyone else's potential salary, health care plan, or retirement.

Good grief, what utter BS. I hope you're not planning a future in business. If you had responsibility to keep thousands of customers, thousands of employees, and thousands of shareholders happy all at once, I expect you would sing a different tune. If your every decision had the potential of simultaneously ruining your life as well as those of thousands of other people, I expect your story would be very different. And before you start your socialist whining about dishonest and overpaid CEOs, of course there are some, just as there are dishonest and underpaid liberals in cube-land. But you were the one painting with the broad brush.

If the top brass at the corporations weren't so fixated on what they were taking home, the rest of us might fair a little better.

More BS. I can personally attest that many of those people you refer to as top brass are far more concerned with keeping their companies running profitably than in what their paycheck looks like. Consider this: If you are factory worker Jones making widgets for United Widgets of America and you make a mistake that screws up an entire customer order, and it is the first time you ever made such a mistake, the worst that will happen to you is probably a reprimand. However, if you are the CEO and your decision results in the customer leaving to go to the competition, not only will you lose your job, you will probably have a hard time getting another job and you will have potentially put dozens or hundreds of factory worker Jones on unemployment and potentially thousands of your investors may see their money go down the drain. Big fat paychecks are useless if you're not getting them. Good CEOs do something cube-land liberals don't: they take the long view.

There is no regard for community or fellow employee anymore.

So I guess United Widgets should just forget about the business of making widgets and keeping their customers happy, they should immediately stop doing that in favor of making their employees feel good and building a community. That is so incredibly naive, I can't even believe I'm reading it.

And I personally don't believe Jesus has a problem with government assistance.

Apparently you are talking about Jesus Smith. If you understood the words, "Render to Caesar..." you would understand that you couldn't possibly be referring to Jesus of Nazareth.

You live in a fantasy world. The Marxist utopia is a proven lie. Wake up.

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