What I find truly messed up about this whole situation is that these AIG execs (and others, not just AIG) are getting a taste of real life and expecting sympathy-welcome to our world-but schools (elementary and high schools) are barely scraping by, sometimes not well at all. It's hard for me to feel any sort of sympathy for the Wall Street execs when (for example) a local grade school superintendant has put 34 buckets in an elementary school building just to catch rainwater that leaks in faster than he can squeegee it off of the roof during a pouring rainstorm. This is a building for children that is literally falling apart, but there is no money to build a new one (part of that is ex-Governor Blagoiavich's fault). In my opinion, the man who oversees children's education should be paid more than the Wall Street exec. and $163 mil would build at least 10 new schools. But, as Annette sometimes says, "don't get me started..."
Carol Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Psychology St. Ambrose University Davenport, Iowa 52803 phone: 563-333-6482 e-mail: [email protected] From: Paul Brandon [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:50 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Op-Ed Contributor - Dear A.I.G., I Quit! - NYTimes.com It's interesting that no one on this list has said anything about athletes and other entertainers, some of whom 'earn' as much yearly as the entire AIG bonus list! And yes, you pay for their salaries through advertising costs passed on to you through the products you purchase (where do you think that the money comes from?). On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:21 PM, Michael Smith wrote: Well, it wouldn't change my opinion. No one, I believe, should receive $742,006.40 bonus after taxes. If that is the bonus, what was his salary!!!??? And, whatever his salary was, he thinks he earned it because the areas he was involved with made lots of money. Unlike most Canadians and probably Americans I think salaries and bonuses like this far exceed anyone's contribution to anything. No one should ever be paid these amounts. Democracy and Capitalism are not the same thing. Paul Brandon 10 Crown Hill Lane Mankato, MN 56001 [email protected] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
