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  • Posted By: tucannon @ 10/05/2008 8:09:13 PM

    We need to give these guys a break---I heard one had to give up his private jet--he was devastated

  • Posted By: Nins @ 10/04/2008 11:16:09 PM

    Gag me with a spoon. What the failed CEOs need is not feel-good therapy. They need to grow a CONSCIENCE about what they have done and work to fix it. Cold day in hell before that happens.

  • Posted By: piinalu @ 10/04/2008 7:55:09 AM

    Add my revulsion so the list. This is pathetic.

  • Posted By: cani77 @ 10/03/2008 10:05:03 PM

    The Bush Depression


    In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years
    is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
    The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide the largest morgage bank in the world,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. Also, Fanny and Freddy Mae which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States.
    The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt.If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash and we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before.

    McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
    That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
    Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.

    Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
    Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
    No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He either didn't care or didn't realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime.
    It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
    even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit.Bush created a national debt larger then the first 42 presidents combined
    If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
    When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
    So why isnt obama 25 points ahead

    The chairman of McCains campaign recently said that people don't vote on issues they vote on a personality composite. Which means he is trying to sell you personality instead of results.

    Let's teach him we are smarter than that .

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  • Posted By: marcharino @ 10/03/2008 3:55:10 PM

    This article sickens me. The avarice and crass nature of these executives is as sickening as the yearly corporate downsizing of thousands of employees in many Fortune 500 companies sickens me. These executives toil away in their extremely posh ivory tower offices drawing tens of millions of dollars in salary and bonuses. And if they fail at their job, then they are severed with a $180 million golden parachute because they drove down the stock price and value of the company. And one cannot forget that the CEO is not responsible for the thousands of dollars in stock options given to employees as an incentive for performance now to find they are worthless. This article should sicken anyone who has worked under these highly compensated and worthless executives who are hired to stress everyone else!

  • Posted By: ndrock @ 10/03/2008 2:25:57 PM

    They have got to be kidding! They billions of dollars and they are stressed out! Over what? How to hide their incompetence, their greed, their spending of money that belongs to the tax payers? They better start spending some of that money on security, as this thing gets worse, there are a lot of fruitcakes out there, and a lot of people have lost money. I'll bet we will be reading in the news someday about just that. And they are smart ones runnning the big companies that went under? And they publize the fact that they spend that much money to spend time in what amounts to a weekend semimar and vacation. UNBELIEVEABLE.

  • Posted By: Boulder Sue @ 10/03/2008 1:54:43 PM

    I have a very practical suggestion for these poor sressed out CEOs, etc.: quit. I'm sure you have plent y of money to tide you over for quite a while. If you really want to work, physical activity is supposed to be very good for for stress. Go dig ditches for the county or work for a moving company. Then send that $15,000 to some family used to living on that amount per year.

  • Posted By: mlayotte @ 10/03/2008 12:55:36 PM

    Where do I enroll? I am very stressed that I can't feed my family properly, I can't afford gas to drive to work every day and I am MAJORLY stressed over how I can avoid getting my heat shut off this winter. Oh wait, this isn't free for regular people, Ok, I'll just charge the cost to my WAMU credit card, and give me the discount please, I have 250,000 people that will be coming with me to de-stress....

  • Posted By: patrickbuckles @ 10/03/2008 12:42:52 PM

    Poor, poor babies!! I'm thinking a work camp in a Louisiana swamp would be much more appropriate!!

  • Posted By: drvein99 @ 10/03/2008 12:05:41 PM

    These poor bastards. How can they possibly cope with making fewer millions of dollars per year?

  • Posted By: Omnius @ 10/03/2008 11:42:11 AM

    Oh isn't that cute that the Worthless Wall Street Wimp CEO's have a high end stress center to cry their little eyes out at if things get tough? Where's the stress centers for the real American workers, like for the 159,000 that lost their jobs last month or the over 750,000 who lost their jobs this year? This kind of pampering of the CEO class of overpaid overhyped loafers is what makes this country decrepit.

    It's time for these White Collar Criminals to be spending some time in prison for their nefarious criminal misdeeds that have brought our economy so low. Time to make them pay for their wicked ways by making them members of the chain gang busting rocks all day long. About time to make these pampered creeps work honestly for once in their lives.

    It's because of this pampered crowd of overpaid wimps that we need Obama/Biden more than ever. We can thank the Voo Doo economics crowd for CEO pay rising from 24 times what an average worker makes 20 years ago to around 265 times what an real worker makes now. Plus the repugnant ones have given these pampered fools tax cuts they never deserved. Disgusting!

  • Posted By: Misbehavin @ 10/03/2008 11:25:38 AM

    Stressed out CEO? Please. Even if he loses his job he likely has a severance package. What about the Average Joe who can only look towards the overcrowded unemployment line? It's hard to feel sorry for most of these CEO's who are out of touch with the real world...

  • Posted By: gtwntx @ 10/03/2008 11:18:36 AM

    Oh My God !!! A camp to take more money from a company owned by stockholders to treat the poor little mama's boy or girl who is the ceo, who is already ripping the company off for millions in his/her contract? What a crock and furthermore, what a ripoff. For both the two idiots running the "camp" and anyone the company who sends and/or pays for their ceo to go there. Go sit on Mommy's lap and you'll feel all better and it won't cost you a cent. In fact, she might make you a bowl of chicken soup.

  • Posted By: bobgorde @ 10/03/2008 11:16:03 AM

    let me name a few more camps for c.e.o.'s, and centers for "journey of Self-discovery.
    Your new camp advisor is "Bubba" from cell block 4
    Leavenworth, Parchment, Yuma, Petersburg, Atlanta, EglinAFB, and Marion IL Federal Correction
    centers, Sing-Sing, Folsom and C.E.O. camps new theme song "Orange Blossom Special"

  • Posted By: mhorn515 @ 10/03/2008 10:36:21 AM

    The onl y problem with Medicare paying for this would be - They would be charged regular price or a little more and kick back the cash difference to the "stressed out exec" or back to the congress man that passed the bill. I feel so sorry for their "stress". How are they going to pay for their vacation home? What a crock!

  • Posted By: onepatriot @ 10/03/2008 9:37:41 AM

    no mercy, hang them all

  • Posted By: wishccr @ 10/03/2008 8:51:05 AM

    Awwww, I wonder if they get fries with that? Perhaps they could get their buddies in Congress to pass a bill to make the fees payable by Medicare. Their problems are nothing compared to the Americans who have lost their homes, lost their jobs, have no medical coverage, and have used up savings to pay their bills as the economy tanked while the execs walked away with $ for their "expertise". Bah.

  • Posted By: GregHere @ 10/03/2008 8:49:01 AM

    .........................We see on all of the many types television programs how opulently the wealthy in this Country are living and all of the many, many possesions that they have. McCain is a Poster Dude for the wealthy with his 7 homes, 13 vehicles and an airplane plus so many other luxuries that we have not been shown because they might hurt him politically. America is not fair and Americans see it every month if not every day. These CEO's and other Top Executives are living posh lives and they put the Republicans to preserve their lofty positions and exclusive life styles. I can not believe that they suffer much stress, is that a joke????

  • Posted By: wishccr @ 10/03/2008 8:42:38 AM

    I wonder if they get fries with that.

    Perhaps Medicare could pay for it. These poor chaps, going from millions of dollars a year to perhaps half a million, so sad. Now they know how we unemployed feel....NOT.

  • Posted By: farmgirl567 @ 10/03/2008 8:22:19 AM

    Execs in an unstable corporate environment have stress issues. When people imply that CEO's have "*special* stress becasue they've achieved a high rank it's really annoying. A person at any level can experience this level of stress. Many people aren't that far away from job-loss and homelessness. There's a little more stress there than the media would like to admit. Perhaps it's not as much fun to write about what's happening to America's manufacturing jobs as a result of our free-trade policy with nations that ignore environmental standards and minimum wage requirements. .

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