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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (191242)10/11/2001 11:05:12 PM
From: Thehammer  Read Replies (3) of 769669
 
Thanks for the statistics Flap,

1) The International Labor Organization recently reported that U.S. employees are putting in the longest hours of all workers in the industrialized world.

Just no coincidence that our economy is in much better shape than most of the others. What is wrong with hard work? What is the average work week?

(2) According to Business Week magazine, CEO pay now stands at 531 times that of the average worker.

Why not compare them to the average baseball player? What is the percentage in base salary? How much is derived from stock options attributable to a rising stock price?

(3) If annual pay for production workers had kept pace with that of the executive suite, average earnings last year would have been $120,491, instead of $24,668.

By what rationale do you think that it should?

(4) Similarly, the minimum wage -- still stuck at $5.15 an hour, up from $3.80 an hour in 1990 -- now would be at $25.50 an hour.

Ditto, I might buy inflation.

(5) Only 37 percent of American workers believe their company's communications with them are always honest.

Ok so "always" means what? How do you propose to control what these folks believe? How does this relate to the other? Do I understand your logic correctly? We should tax corporations based on the perception of honesty?

In other words, the climate for the average American worker is getting worse, while the average American CEO is earning 571% more in 2000 than he did in 1990.

Now wait a minute pal.....This was the decade of Clinton. Are you saying that the average working man got screwed on the watch of Bill? C'mon

Hammer
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