Newsweek: "What They Got Away With" (photo gallery of CEOs and their mammoth Golden Parachutes)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

It's a Flash photo Gallery, so I can't copy and paste anything here. The link is a slideshow with descriptive text and the amount of each payout:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/159439

[Raschel]

1. Criminals

Great link. Their photos should be put up in every post office.

I noticed they all look perverted.

[asdjrocky]

2. This could be an enemies list for the revolution. nt

[phusion]

3. Just look at these men...

Conniving weasels, all of them. I wouldn't trust any of them one bit!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. Too many smiling faces in those photos...

...I'm reminded of the expression "the wheels are coming off the world."

:patriot:

[Overseas]

4. These stories are the toughest. CEOs getting huge pay for dismal performances !

Even though I've known for years that they are on each others' boards of directors voting on compensation levels and have thus rigged the game,

it is still revolting to see the actual packages received for such incompetence.


But what do they care? They can buy gas at any price, and lots of new homes to hide away in.

[oldtime dfl_er]

5. and guess who they're probably going to vote for

it ain't our guy. They should have their vote taken away from them.

[vanderBeth]

7. I couldn't get thorugh it all without getting sick.

:puke:

[Orsino]

8. Meet your ruling class.

Take pride in the lavish lifestyles you have financed, DU! Only in America are parasites so pampered.

[progressoid]

9. Sickening

[fortyfeetunder]

10. No surprise here

I hope the payout is enough to infuriate people...

[angstlessk]

11. if this were China they would be holding tribunals for these theives....

which ones should be put to death and which ones should be simply sent to rot in prison..here we are figuring ways to transfer MORE funds from the middle class to them without any repurcussions leagly or politically...:grr:

[mdmc]

12. nice thanks for the link

:kick:

[alfredo]

13. We need to remember their names. If any of them show up on the board

of any company, we should organize a boycott of that business. If they move into a neighborhood, let's make sure they are treated like child molesters.

[Greyhound]

15. They will all show up on boards and in make-work jobs paying millions.

Bet on it.

[alfredo]

16. Never forget, never forgive.

[DemoTex]

14. Not the big league, but don't forget US Airways' CEO Dave Siegel

He was CEO when the US Airways Pilots Pension plan (my pension!) was terminated by a Federal Bankruptcy judge on 3/31/2003. Siegel was shown the bail-out door a few months later by the board and jumped with a $10+ million golden 'chute.

[Usrename]

17. Does Hank Greenberg deserve to be on this list?

He might be a decent human being.

[Captain Hilts]

18. I look forward to the day when some women will get the chance to be so corrupt. nt