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ace--give me a break. if there's a consistent assumption at play in this rather tedious exchange, it is yours, and it is that ceo's are necessarily worth what they're paid. the second one is simpler still--that obama's statements concerning excessive executive compensation in the context of firms that are getting bailout money is somehow "empty"--and you seem to further assume that if you write the phrase "empty gesture" enough times that it will stop referring only to itself and will acquire some kind of weight for people who are not you.
but the facts are not with you on this, as they are not on most things when you try to argue from your rightwing political viewpoint: what prompted obama to say that such levels of compensation are "shameful" is obvious. that you do not think it was shameful has much to do with your sycophantic relation to the imaginary "captains of industry" that seem to dance about in Heroic Conservative Pseudo-accounts of contemporary capitalism and nowhere else.
the cause of these incidents is self-evident as well: no controls built into the first round of tarp money.
to dodge this, you adopted a kind of peculiar limbaugh-esque imaginary history that blames obama for it. fine, whatever.
you operate under the illusion that markets are rational, that bad actors are punished blah blah blah. at this point, i see no reason to take that nonsense seriously any more--i've made an effort to engage you on this and it's clearly a waste of my time.
in order to make this ridiculous a priori viewpoint operational in the present context, you are reduced to wishing away a significant crisis of captialism itself--and in that, you are simply dreaming. dream as you like, ace, but don't expect that your dreaming will be confused with an account of reality.
i'm going to do something that's more interesting than talking with you---i'm thinking that stapling my hand to my desk would be more fun. let's see, shall we?
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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