The richest 400 Americans - that's right, /just four hundred people/ -
own MORE than the bottom 150 million Americans combined.
400 rich Americans
<http://www.forbes.com/2008/09/16/forbes-400-billionaires-lists-400list08_cx_mn_0917richamericans_land.html>
have got more stashed away than half the entire country!
Their combined net worth is $1.6 trillion.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=237
See How Much These Big-Name CEOs Took Home Each Year
/CEO/ /Cash Salary/ /Stock, Other Pay/ /Total Pay/
*Lehman Brothers*
2007
Richard Fuld $5,000,000 $66,770,000 $71,770,000
2006
Richard Fuld $7,000,000 $55,323,679 $62,323,679
2005
Richard Fuld $14,500,000 $89,500,000 $104,000,000
2004
Richard Fuld $11,000,000 $24,300,000 $35,300,000
*Morgan Stanley*
2007 John Mack $800,000
$16,431,500 $17,231,500
2006 John Mack $800,000
$6,321,000 $7,121,000
2005 John Mack $337,534
$30,000,000 $30,337,534
*Goldman Sachs*
2007 Lloyd Blankfein $27,600,000 $15,500,000 $43,100,000
2006 Lloyd Blankfein $27,800,000 $15,700,000 $43,500,000
2006 Henry Paulson $129,087,000 $34,900,000 $163,987,000
2005 Henry Paulson $600,000 $3,363,422 $3,963,422
2004 Henry Paulson $600,000 $11,660,000 $12,260,000
*Bear Stearns*
2006
James Cayne $17,300,000 $14,800,000 $32,100,000
2005
James Cayne $12,900,000 $10,300,000 $23,200,000
2004
James Cayne $10,200,000 $9,500,000 $19,700,000
*Merrill Lynch*
2007 John Thain $15,800,000
$0 $15,800,000
2007 E. Stanley O'Neal $584,000
$161,000,000 $161,584,000
2006 E. Stanley O'Neal $19,200,000
$45,116,327 $64,316,327
2005 E. Stanley O'Neal $14,800,000
$3,120,000 $17,920,000
2004 E. Stanley O'Neal $700,000
$16,766,448 $17,466,448
*Washington Mutual*
2007 Kerry K. Killinger $1,000,000 $3,468,625 $4,468,625
2006 Kerry K. Killinger $5,100,000 $17,153,715 $22,253,715
2005 Kerry K. Killinger $4,600,000 $8,876,608 $13,476,608
2004 Kerry K. Killinger $2,900,000 $12,335,416 $15,235,416
*AIG*
2007
Martin J. Sullivan $10,200,000 $5,647,439 $15,847,439
2006
Martin J. Sullivan $16,900,000 $5,838,656 $22,738,656
2005
Martin J. Sullivan $7,750,000 $159,000 $7,909,000
2004
M.R. "Hank" Greenberg $1,400,000 $12,002,880 $13,402,880
*Fannie Mae*
2007 Daniel Mudd $3,200,000 $5,200,000 $8,400,000
2006 Daniel Mudd $4,400,000 $2,290,000 $6,690,000
*Freddie Mac*
2007 Richard Syron $5,590,000 $0 $5,590,000
2006 Richard Syron $5,150,000 $0 $5,150,000
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=5876413
As Michael Moore points out:
The richest 400 Americans -- that's right, /just four hundred people/ --
own MORE than the bottom 150 million Americans combined. 400 rich
Americans
<http://www.forbes.com/2008/09/16/forbes-400-billionaires-lists-400list08_cx_mn_0917richamericans_land.html>
have got more stashed away than half the entire country! Their combined
net worth is $1.6 trillion.
Now, after stealing a half trillion dollars to line the pockets of their
war-profiteering backers for the past five years, after lining the
pockets of their fellow oilmen to the tune of over a hundred billion
dollars in just the last two years, Bush and his cronies -- who must
soon vacate the White House -- are looting the U.S. Treasury of every
dollar they can grab. They are swiping as much of the silverware as they
can on their way out the door.
. . .
This bailout's mission is to protect the obscene amount of wealth that
has been accumulated in the last eight years. It's to protect the top
shareholders who own and control corporate America. It's to make sure
their yachts and mansions and "way of life" go uninterrupted while the
rest of America suffers and struggles to pay the bills. Let the rich
suffer for once. Let them pay for the bailout. We are spending 400
million dollars a day on the war in Iraq. Let them end the war
immediately and save us all another half-trillion dollars!
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=237
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2008-09-29
Now these poor little rich boys are going to get $700 thousand million
dollars more, coupled with some handy tax breaks, of course.
http://www.kirotv.com/save-money/17596060/detail.html
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14196.html
Meanwhile, as the banksters make off like bandits:
http://bailoutmainstreet.com/
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=237
Millions of ordinary people are protesting
"NO BAILOUT" "YOU BROKE IT YOU BUY IT" Wall Street Protest
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEWvegDAtkQ&feature=email>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEWvegDAtkQ&feature=email
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEWvegDAtkQ&feature=email>
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/02-1
Ordinary Americans are sleeping in cars and tent cities are springing up
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7585696.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7297093.stm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnnOOo6tRs8
Militias are getting ready to move on the streets to 'keep order'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/02
and millions of Iraqis are dead, maimed, imprisoned, tortured, refugees,
homeless or even selling their children into prostitution.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/15/9640
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/307209
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. Bankers own the
earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create
money, and with a flick of the pen, they will create enough money to
buy it back again.
Take this great power away from them and all the great fortunes like
mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for then this
would be a better world to live in. But if you want to continue to
be slaves of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then
let bankers continue to create money and control credit.
- The writings of Sir Josiah Stamp, President of the Bank of
England, at the University of Texas, 1920.
We don't need a $700 billion bailout package - We need !REVOLUTION!
After 10,000 years of slaves and masters, aren't you sick of this sh*?
Surely it's time the human race tried something new?
Surely another world is possible?
Surely?
Linda
*http://freedetainees.org <http://freedetainees.org/>
*
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