Not dense. Just aware. Guess I got under your skin didnt I? Jealousy and envy are synonyms. Yeah sure, it'd be cool to drive a Ferrari once or twice, but the maintenance plan on cars like that are outrageous. What am I gonna do with a multi-million dollar mansion? I dont want either. I could sleep just as well in a 200k dollar home. Were you saying that I couldnt get a $200k home with $200k take home pay? or even 180k? I dunno how you figure that considering I have a $150k home right now, taking home 30k. So yes, I could have a nice home, nice car, go on vacation when I wanted, and have my kids college paid for. $200k goes plenty far. I was definitely right about CEO's personal and business assests separate. Then you proved me in your own statement. Jobs may be the best example, as he only gets a salary of one cold George Washington. This man is worth BILLIONS of dollars, and if he sells a couple less iphones one month, Jobs will be worth BILLIONS of dollars

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And why is this wrong? Why should the owner of the company, the one that took all of the risks in starting the company, lower his standard of living? Greed is supposed to be this dirty word designed to make otherwise honest businesspeople seem to be the enemy.
This statement particularly chilled me. I dont think my job should be at stake because my bosses tax rate doubled and now he cant afford his second Murcielago. If you think thats ok, then whatever. Just doesnt seem right to me. I wonder if im the only one. Remind me never to work for you.

I dont think I have enough space to list all the examples of greed for greed's sake. So I'll just list a couple. Heres the most recent example of Borders on the verge of folding, laying off thousands of jobs, and paying almost $9 million in bonuses to executives...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...969830886.html

Heres a few words that should put a foul taste in anyones alive in the past 5 years. Greed.
AIG
Goldman Sachs
Lehman Brothers

Hey, after some more research, you're right. It did work for Reagan, and his buddy Donald Reagan, A.K.A. Director of the SIPC, CEO of Merril Lynch, and vice chairman of the NYSE. and thats it.

BTW, liberals always seem to think the best way to make a "fair" society is to bring the top down, not bring the bottom up.
And its the conservatives that always seem to think "Lets keep the bottom where they're at and lets bring the top even higher"