Hayward makes $456 an hour 24 hours a day, plus stock, golden parachute and perks...

[AnArmyVeteran]

So while testifying today before congress and avoiding questions or lying, Hayward made a couple of thousand dollars. He makes $11,000 a day in his basic salary. Any decent, compassionate person would give up some of his fortune to those he either killed or destroyed. But Hayward won't lose a penny from his personal fortune. He gets to go back to his mansions and live like a king, while those people he destroyed are wondering where they are going to get enough money to eat tonight.

There is something mentally defective with most wealthy people. Yeah, I know, some give a lot of their money to charity, but not one that I know of has given enough to cause them any financial distress to the point where they will have to miss a meal or a mortgage payment. If someone has 100 billion dollars and gives away 99 billion, I don't consider that an act of charity. After all, the guy's still a billionaire with no worries about money for the rest of his life. I get sickened when I hear of a athlete who gives $5,000 to a charity and it gets front page coverage. But when an average person gives a higher percentage of their wealth and time to others than any millionaire he gets zero recognition. Nothing will be named after them and they don't want anything named after them. They give because they have hearts and compassion.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. Please pay me $456 an hour to lie and say I don't know

[burnsei sensei]

2. He makes as much in one day

as I make in about a year.

[Tansy_Gold]

3. That makes two of us n/t

[LonePirate]

4. If it makes you feel any better, he'd be making 10x that amount or more if he was an American CEO

[Turbineguy]

5. He may be one of the few CEO's

who will actually get a chance to earn it.

If you take out the fact that Members of Congress are running for re-election on the taxpayer dime, you come away with an entirely different view. The questions were repetitive and more statements than questions to show that your representatives are on the case and making this guy squirm.

A lot of the questions were asked in the full knowledge that he could not answer until all the facts are in. The point was not to find anything out but to grandstand. Questions that he could answer he did.

Very little (if any) new knowledge was gained about what really happened.

Most of it was the opposite side of the same coin as what Barton said.

[spin]

6. For that amount of money ...

he should know a little more about the business he is in charge of.

Hayward looked and acted incompetent during the hearings today.

[Ruby the Liberal]

8. He's a PhD in Geology. You weren't witnessing incompetence as much as you

were witnessing post-counsel coaching.

"What, who, me?"

[AnArmyVeteran]

9. Very few CEOs know what the hell is going on

Enron executives testified and they said they didn't know what went on in their company.

Tobacco executives testified under oath and said they had no knowledge of any dangers to smoking.

BP executives say they had no knowledge of what was going on at one of their biggest rigs.

Of course they are all lying. If they were so clueless then why were they all making millions a year? And all of them were either evasive or said they had no idea what was going on.

Anyone can be a CEO of a major corporation. All you have to do is have 90% of your brain removed, 100% of your heart removed and just be able to breathe. Oh yeah, and to be a CEO you have to be a sociopath because to make big money you almost always have to hurt people to get it through deception, deceit, negligence or outright murder.

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. The story of the "Widow's Mite" is one of my favorites

Bible Matthew 12:41-44

Jesus went over to the collection box in the temple and sat and watched as the crowds dropped in their money. Many rich people put in large amounts. Then a poor widow came and dropped in a mite (two pennies). He called his disciples over to him and said, "I assure you, this poor widow has given more than all the others have given. For they gave a tiny part of their surplus, but she, poor as she is, has given everything she has, for they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her whole livelihood."

Are you LISTENING Republicans?? Supply Side Jesus is a figment of your brainwashed imagination.

[AnArmyVeteran]

10. I like that story too and that was the point I made in my post below:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8583028

The wealthy never give anything that will change their lifestyle or put them in a position that left them in need of anything. So when a wealthy person gives away 10 billion and still has a billion, they aren't giving up anything. They will continue their lavish lifestyle, while a homeless person who gives his last dime is the truly charitable person. I get sick of stories of the wealthy giving away money and getting so much credit, having buildings named after them and getting the press to gush all over them.

I firmly believe no one can be a conservative and a Christian at the same time. They are exact opposites and if Jesus returned they would nail him to the cross again and if somehow Jesus was pulled down from the cross before dying conservatives would stand around calling him a deadbeat for not having insurance, and they would just watch him die. And they call themselves Christians.