re: #518 BryanS

If it were so easy to be a CEO of a major company, why can’t anybody just do it? I mean, for what they get paid you’d think there’s thousands of applications for each opening. Actually, there probably is! Is it fair that some get paid millions to throw a ball around a field for entertainment? I’m just trying to ascertain what you feel is unfair—is it just the compensation or the work they do for that compensation?

OK My main point is that we can have both. We can have CEOs making billions. And we can also have bus drivers that will occasionally make 159K. I think the latter is only a true reflection of our wealth and not so much the unions which of course help. But there’s room for both. We can have more wealth for EVERYONE but only if we try harder and watch how we spend public money and generate revenue. The problem isn’t the CEO nor the bus driver. It’s in how we distribute and allocate wealth and generate tax revenue. The CEO gets his massive tax break and creates wealth, earnings, and jobs and the bus driver gets his salary from a healthy bus system that generate revenue for the city and helps cut down on pollution.