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...as opposed to your incessant spew of verbal diarrhea effecting any change in government.

Again and again we hear about how much money Division I sports programs bring in to a school, but fuck it sure costs a lot to run those programs, now doesn't it. Why again are education costs going through the roof? Never mind, no matter, j_bot and prole will just make it "free".

j_bot regularly exhibits his two-faced inconsistencies, claiming to stand for one thing as he bashes capitalism and the private sector in one breath, while using the same practices as an excuse to rationalize what occurs in the public sector in the very next breath.

How long do I need to stop posting before you off yourself? It is very tempting.

We're there, bro! There's actually a metric used to measure this. WE'RE 44TH! Believe it or not, you might have seen it mentioned earlier in this thread if you were paying attention. Oh, it's awful. How DO you refrain from slitting your wrists?

Not as catchy as Obama.

Feel free to tell us exactly how you would change the compensation structure of CEO's compared to the rank-and-file fixing your oft-cited wealth gap. Let's hear some concrete explicit steps rather than typical progtard whining and hand-waving. I would think the oft-cited charts would make that answer obvious, roll back the "Reagan Revolution": retie wages and benefits to gains in productivity, enforce rules against union busting, tax the shit out of the global casino, deficit spending in the near-term to fund infrastructure and improvements in education while putting people to work, limit the access and influence of corporate cash in the political system, re-regulate finance, break up the big banks and/or run them as public utilities, close loopholes, limit tax offshoring, and prosecute avoiders and evaders, write off onerous debt for homeowners facing foreclosure, reduce health care costs by the only means available, a national single-payer health care system, penalize corporations seeking to reduce environmental and labor costs through offshoring and other 'race to the bottom' advantage-seeking behavior, tighten rules around repatriation of corporate profits, etc. Darn, did I mention CEO compensation? Sounds like a great recipe for an immediate and total economic collapse. And I sure don't see anything individual - or combined set of changes - actually changing the fact that there are always a very few very rich who run everything and the vast majority living at a much lower standard.

Any attempt by congress to legislate upper limits on compensate would go into court-gridlock and you damn-well know it. Tell us all again how smart you are. Aborted "graduate coursework", notwithstanding.

Yeah, that would be constitutional.

Feel free to tell us exactly how you would change the compensation structure of CEO's compared to the rank-and-file fixing your oft-cited wealth gap. Let's hear some concrete explicit steps rather than typical progtard whining and hand-waving. Crickets.

C'mon now - we've already had two! Clinton was the first, after all.

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Feel free to tell us exactly how you would change the compensation structure of CEO's compared to the rank-and-file fixing your oft-cited wealth gap. Let's hear some concrete explicit steps rather than typical progtard whining and hand-waving.

Start small and build up to huge conglomerates. You're hilarious. Two moobs for you! What it won't work? Neither does Marxism.

*yawn* Same old boring shit from a boring old loser. A loser that runs two of his own businesses. Perhaps you could write a 'how to' for us. Or a helpful pamphlet on improving the American work ethic. Oooh, that's so impressive. Just like your "graduate-level coursework" and your shitty art, and your GF "waiting for you" whiile you climb lib ridge. Fuck off, asshole.

Start small and build up to huge conglomerates. Surely plenty of your like-minded (and rich) libtards can start corporations and avoid all the self-gratifying high compensation packages?

*yawn* Same old boring shit from a boring old loser.

You are perfectly welcome to start your OWN business, pay yourself less, your workers more, and run a more equitable business. If all your like-minded liberal friends do the same then you'd effect real change. Oh, wait, that would actually require DOING something.

$167,000 for WA Governor? Shit, that just ain't worth it for what you'd have to put up with... That's just salary - total comp is gonna include all kinds of goodies.

What about Gib ledges?

What they are being asked to do is give up on part of the benefits that they have been promised... in other words to allow their employer to renege on part of their compensation package. I don't blame these folks for saying "no, thanks". Typically, these folks have to fight for salary increases which lag the market/rate of inflation. And I wonder, which benefits in particular is Gov. Gregoire forgoing... as a sign of good faith and soldarity with the state employees that she is is asking to make sacrifices and the people of the state of Washington? Maybe she is taking a 10% cut in her >150K salary? Or perhaps she is paying all her medical premiums?

I may have typed it in wrong (so no flaming), but with the drop in 2010, the # of state employees went up about 37% and the population about 38% from 1990 to 2011. So, yeah, pretty commensurate.