Underscoring who the real enemies of the USA are.

[MrPots]

They want to do business here in the USA, they want the american consumers money, they want the perks of being in the USA,

but they do not want to support the infrastructure, they do not want to pay american workers they don't want to pay their share of taxes. The want all the benefits but none of the cost. The rich...the 1%, corporate CEO's, and wall street...the real enemies of America. They may not fly planes into the WTC...but the damage they do is just as devastating.


Here's how much more CEOs earn than average workers:

It's no surprise that the people running the nation's largest corporations take home hefty paychecks. Possibly more eye-opening is the ever-widening gap between what CEOs earn and what their workers are paid.

Last year, the average chief executive of a company listed on the S&P 500 made $12.4 million, or 335 times the $36,875 paid to average workers. That ratio stood at 107-to-1 in 1990 and 42-to-1 a decade earlier. (meanwhile average worker pay is stagnant and has been for 30 years)

"Corporate CEOs have rewritten the rules of our economy," Heather Slavkin Corzo, director of the office of investment at the AFL-CIO, which used regulatory filings and Department of Labor statistics to compile its findings, said in a news conference to discuss the union's compensation findings. "They are also looting their companies and the public purse so they can keep getting richer. And they are squeezing workers and outsourcing jobs."

In addition to offering an accounting of what Corporate America's head honchos make, the AFL-CIO's annual PayWatch analysis looks at how CEO pay may relate to corporate income tax avoidance. Chief executives overseeing companies with the most cash held overseas to defer paying taxes are paid 79 percent more than other CEOs, it concludes.

U.S. companies hold a total of $2.4 trillion offshore, with the U.S. losing as much as $695 billion in tax revenues that could be used to "finance schools, bridges, hospitals, fire stations and other infrastructure projects around the country," Corzo said. "By failing to invest in infrastructure, education and our workforce, we are allowing the critical components of future U.S. economic success to atrophy."

Mondelez (MDLZ) chairman and CEO Irene Rosenfeld made $19.7 million in 2015, 534 times the average worker's pay, and her company holds $19.2 billion in unrepatriated profits, according to the AFL-CIO. Of late, critics have attacked the food conglomerate for trying to send 600 jobs from its Nabisco bakery in Chicago to a plant Mexico.

Among those already laid off from the Nabisco plant is Michael Smith, a 59-year-old father of four with prostate cancer, whose health insurance is scheduled to lapse three months after his March separation from the company.

"It's been a difficult year for me," Smith said during the press briefing, describing daily bouts of depression and worry about "whether, at my age, I could reinvent myself in today's job market."

Mondelez did not immediately return an emailed request for comment, and a call to its media line was not answered.

United Technologies (UTX), which plans to move two of its Carrier heating and ventilating parts plants from Indiana to Mexico and to eliminate more than 2,000 jobs in the U.S., also made the AFL-CIO's list of top tax dodgers. Its CEO, Gregory Hayes, made $10.7 million in 2015, while the company holds $29 billion overseas.

Verizon Communications (VZ) CEO Lowell McAdam earned $18.3 million in 2015, while the telecommunications company holds $1.8 billion outside the U.S. The company is engaged in a labor dispute with 39,000 striking workers as it looks to, as Corzo put it, "outsource work to low-paid contractors."

Neither United Technologies nor Verizon immediately returned requests for comment. (of course not...traitors and cowards always run)

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/heres-ho...erage-workers/

[Wasillaguy]

Verizon is crap up here. The other carriers build a cell site with 150' monopole and a nice environmentally controlled building for the equipment. Verizon puts their antennas on top of telephone poles and the gear in a metal cabinet. Then they hire non-union techs for $16/hr who can't keep the shit running.

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

Verizon is crap up here. The other carriers build a cell site with 150' monopole and a nice environmentally controlled building for the equipment. Verizon puts their antennas on top of telephone poles and the gear in a metal cabinet. Then they hire non-union techs for $16/hr who can't keep the shit running.

People don't realize that in the building trades union worker also means highly trained worker. Some apprenticeships last five years now. I couldn't dream of being able to do what some of these crafts do - what they produce from flat sheets of metal or a pile of boards.

[MrPots]

Pharmaceutical companies:

Elderly Mom Killed by Husband Who Couldn't Afford Medication:

An elderly man said he fatally shot his ailing wife while she slept because he couldn't afford her medication, according to an arrest affidavit.

William J. Hager, 86, allegedly told deputies who were sent to his home in Port St. Lucie, Florida, that he had "bad news" and had killed his wife about five hours earlier.

Carolyn F. Hager was found propped up with pillows and covered with a blanket in bed with a gunshot wound to the left side of her head.

The affidavit quoted the victim's husband as apologizing to police for not contacting them earlier. "I wanted to tell my kids what happened first," William Hager allegedly told an officer at the scene.

He said that his wife had suffered from several illnesses that required numerous medications, which he could no longer afford, the document added.

William Hager told officers that he had contemplated killing his wife for several days because she had been in pain. He said that his wife had stated in the past that she wanted to die, but had never specifically asked him to kill her.

Police told a news conference Tuesday the victim had been unwell for around 15 years.

NBC station WPTV reported that William Hager filed for bankruptcy in 2011 (at the age of 81) and took a job at Sears for a while to help pay for his wife's medication.

On Monday, he woke at around 7:30 a.m. ET to go to the bathroom, before retrieving a "Colt .32 caliber revolver from his nightstand" and went "into Carolyn's bedroom, where she was still asleep, and shot her in the head," police quoted William Hager as saying in the affidavit.

"Hager stated he put the gun down on a dresser and went out to the kitchen and drank coffee," the document added. He later contacted his daughters.

Hager was charged with first-degree murder and was being held without bond Wednesday at the St. Lucie County Jail.


*likely he won't live to see the trial and will die in jail. Pharmaceuticals cost roughly half outside the US what they do in the US. Why? Because the United States does not regulate industry so industry has free reign to do anything...including jacking up the price of drugs for the sole purpose of meeting wall street expectations. Yep...gotta keep those rich wall street investors happy at all cost. It doesn't matter to them if the rabble has to die for their millions in profits.

[BlueStreak]

Rich people raiding the nations wealth because our "government" does nothing to protect it?

Who could have seen THAT coming?

Thanks, Ronnie!

Oh, and the old man who shot his wife?

They should let him go............and arrest the pirates who see to it that the sole purpose of making medicines is to line their pockets.

[MrPots]

Indeed...

Poor guy, he did the hardest thing he ever had to do in his life out of love and desperation.

[Boreas]

In the words of that great American Philosopher, George Walker Bush, "Uniquely American."

[nailer]

Greed is good.

[Boreas]

Things such as this simply should not be allowed to happen and any economic system that allows them is morally bankrupt to the point of being evil. It should be completely done away with by any means necessary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4DlfEQ7cyk

[Tom Joad]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIvzp514odU