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Horrible bosses!
Philadelphia's filthy rich CEOs got a lot richer (32.6 percent, on average) last year, and they did it by freezing your pay and slashing your benefits:
ONCE UPON A TIME - when the local founding Pew family was still in control - workers at Sunoco's sprawling Marcus Hook refinery joked about working for "Uncle Sunny," the kind of company in which a generous health plan for early retirees was negotiated with a simple handshake.
But today the dwindling number of time-clock punchers at the region's largest oil refiner say that they're so shell-shocked from the loss of 400 jobs at Sunoco's shuttered South Jersey site, a looming pension freeze and news that workers under 50 now won't be getting that retiree health coverage, they cringe at what might be next.
"Your blood pressure is up from the time you check in until the time you leave," said Dave Miller, president of Local 10-901 of the United Steelworkers, which represents some Marcus Hook workers. His union cohort, Mike McLain, nodded in agreement: He was six months shy of his 50th birthday when Sunoco killed off the future-retiree health benefits for its under-50 workers.
But at least one Sunoco employee did all right by "Uncle Sunny" in 2010: its CEO, Lynn Elsenhans.
Elsenhans arrived at Sunoco in 2008 to carry out an aggressive program of cost-cutting. That apparently did not include her own compensation package - which rose last year by a staggering 524 percent, to more than $11.7 million.
They earned it, right? Maybe. But such gross inequality tears at the fabric of society. The rich can do things in our current so-called democracy -- buy candidates and elections, for example -- that you and I can't. And their formula for boosting their individual company's bottom line -- and lining their own pockets in the process -- is crushing the broader economy, creating a middle class with no money and no confidence in the future. But go ahead -- bow at the powerful altar of the (rigged) "free market."
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There is no right to a job or benefits. Tell these loser union members to work somewhere else if they aren't happy. At least they have a job. They should be grateful.— Captain Terrific
Comment removed.- Lynn's official town of residence is Houston, not Philadelphia. You don't really think she has any loyalty to Sunoco or it's people do you? My guess is they sell off the company bit by bit, and move the pipeline company to Houston which she will continue to head up. This allows her the prestige of being a corporate CEO (and the social standing which comes with it), and she is in her "home town".— cb54
- So, you doesn't like free market economics, eh Will? What's your alternative? Government-regulated compensation, a "Pay Czar" for everybody? Government-run economy?— pschulze
- Capitalism with the government keeping an eye on things by efficient regulation is the answer. Without regulation by government, you have problems pop up like the Great Depression, or nuclear plants melting down as they did in "free market" Japan, because government took the private sector CEO's word for it that everything was under control after the earthquake. The electricity that powers everything we do is heavily regulated by the US Gov.t., yet we have the lowest energy rates, including auto and home heating fuel of any of the industrialized countries. Government does a pretty good job sometimes, except for when it is corrupted by producers like the Koch Brothers and the Marcellus Shale people here in Pennsylvania who game the system from day one. There is little or no regulation of the gas drilling in Pennsylvania so your free market claims will be put to test in the next few years. How much do you want to bet that the gas rates will NEVER go down for the consumer, even when they've reached full production? Any money the consumer should have saved on rates will simply be kept by the greedy producers and put in their own pockets. Any problems with contamination such as destroyed local water supplies will be paid for by the taxpayers. Privatize profits and stick the taxpayers with the risk of any losses. It worked out well for the bankers and Wall Streeters. As the CEO of ADM said years ago, "the free market exists only in the mouths of delusional politicians."
The ridiculous disparity between Labor, Management and Investors – between those who produce it, those who manage it, and those who invest in the production – has been so extreme that it truly deserves the label that Eleanor Bloxham gave it – INSANE.
I'll add - perverted greed.
The reward for a productive business is income. And that income should be shared reasonably by all who contributed to the productive effort that produced the income. Not hoarded by some contributors at the expense of most of the other contributors.
Today, income is NOT being reasonably shared – it's being horribly HOARDED.
This is producing a perverted CONCENTRATION of wealth in hands that do NOT deserve it.
Today, Producers are called on to 'sacrifice' so the business can survive.
This is a LIE.
Producers are being lied to and EXPLOITED for the benefit of Management and Investors.
Why Labor is tolerating this abuse is mind-boggling.
The entire concept of FAIR business practices and their effect on society went out the window back in the late 1960s-early 1970s.- Dave and Mike should quit, risk their own capital, start their own oil company and pay their own employees whatever they want to.— tr88
- Yeah and if they can't afford to do that then they should just shut up, do what they are told...and respect their betters! — dearolddad
- The US government disrespected the American Producer and shamelessly sold-out America to the International Elite Financiers. Laws and government agencies that promoted offshore business development (like PICA) undermined the American Producer and created the divide & conquer strategy of competition in low-wages.
With NO care or concern for America, or any social conscience whatsoever, these depraved International Elite raped and pillaged the American working class and concentrated more & more wealth into their hands to influence (payoff) politics and rape more societies.
Since then the American Producer has slid into an abyss, exploited by Investors-Financiers who perversely reward these managers of the businesses they've set-up around the world.
FAIRNESS needs to return the US and throughout the world.
The exploitation and abusive atrocities perpetrated worldwide by the offshore garment business is a perfect example of the reckless, careless, and money-salivating perverted greed of the 'investors'.
This is where OUR government needs to step in and establish FAIR labor laws and put a STOP to the exploitation of production and the destruction of societies by the International Elite. - Wah, I don't have a good job that pays well...wah, my friends make more money and have a nicer house and cars....wah, I want what they have....wah, we should take from them and give to me...wah, I'm Will Bunch— jimmymack
- You wish you were Will Bunch — dearolddad
- Listen to the drones and Reagan idol worshipers. In the name of the Father and of the "Free Market" and the "Holy Corporation" Amen. What these fools don't understand is that the U.S. economy is about 70% consumer spending. When the "union thugs" and grateful job-holders have less money to put into the economy and are paying more for health benefits it hurts the entrepreneurs/small businesses they love so much because they can not patronize them, invest in their stock or have money in savings accounts that entrepreneurs can access. When a huge percentage of money is sitting with the top 5% to 10%, it damages the economy and is the product of what Newt termed "right wing social engineering." It did not happen because of "natural competition" like the mouth breathing ditto heads claim.— mick-of-the-moment
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- Keep the comments clean folks, no making fun of Rachel Maddow or the appearance of female soccer players. That gets Will all hot-and-bothered.— General Turgidson
- What I would like to know is how you get paid for this stuff, you just use a picture or someone elses article type a few words and WAMMO checks in the mail, Nice work if you can get it. Today was actually a good day a whole paragraph containing more than ten words. You really must be tired after that.— ease
- Actually Will wrote the article that he refers to here in his blog. A bit of a double dip, writing an opinion piece in the DN, then using it a second time here (maybe a little lazy, or he may really be proud of his writing). — cb54
- You took quite and basic economic smack down by Chris Stigall this morning. Are you OK? Don't want your delicate feminine leftist sensibilities brused, eh?— Kaiser Sosa
Resentment and envy are among the darker emotions to which we humans are too easily susceptible when dissatisfied with life, which makes it all the more reprehensible when politicians (and writers like Mr. Bunch) stoke those emotions during tough times as a way of promoting class warfare and attacking capitalism.
Leftists always seek to restrict individual freedom and opportunity in their pursuit of greater control, and use the allure of "economic equality" to do it.
But guess what: that Mephistophelian bargain never pays off. Innovators and investors move elsewhere, production and demand sag, leaving the misguided masses to demand more "entitlements" from a government that simply prints money to deliver them -- until it all implodes.- John, the implosion is imminent.— RG
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- Let me ask one question of atkinsdiet and the other members of the Fox/Tea crowd. If Republican economic philosophy worked, shouldn't we have been in an economic boom by 2006? There was Republican control of Congress since '94 and Republican Pres. since 2000. What happened?— mick-of-the-moment
- Mick, if government spending stimulates growth how come the rate of debt has outpaced growth after all these years of increased gov spending?— RG
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- @RG--Republican wars and tax cuts for the rich.— mick-of-the-moment
- @RG--Republican wars and tax cuts for the rich.— mick-of-the-moment
- Can any of you stop attacking the good points the left has for one minute to point out why a CEOs compensation should go up when they're cutting worker pay and the economy is in the toilet?— HandNik
- Mick, clearly you havent looked at the federal budget. Second tax cuts to the middle class cost the gov more revenue than cuts to high earners, thats simply a fact. I doubt you ll give up your tax cut. Obama and the Dems are free to end the wars when they please. It was Obama who issued a surge in Afghanistan and authorized Libya.— RG
- Bunch...you are insane. It is called capitalism and it's pursuit of profit is what built our country and made it thrive. The greatest thing about capitalism is that any low level employee has the opportunity to work hard and be the guy making 700X his current income. Corporations do not exist for some fairy tale better good- they exist to maximize shareholder profit. If you don't like that I suggest you freely do 1 of 2 things Bunch...either 1.) dig into your pockets and invest in those corporations, so you too can enjoy the benefit of shareholder profit or 2.) move to Cuba where your utopian society already exists...you will love the quality of life they have to offer.— kelprod2
- ///Can any of you stop attacking the good points the left has for one minute to point out why a CEOs compensation should go up when they're cutting worker pay and the economy is in the toilet? ///
Personally, I don't think it should. But CEOs are paid to have the company make money, they're not paid based on the number of employees.— General Turgidson - @HandNik: It's the same as the stimulus "saving" jobs. Without the skills of high-paid CEOs, there would be fewer workers to be paid anything.— philly2flag
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- "They earned it, right?" . . . . . . No doubt. But when the you-know-what hits the fan, will they be ready to accept that they earned their fate as well, or just expect another bail-out as the privilege of being too big to fail? More and more we're seeing signs pointing to France's situation in the 1780s, crushing debt due to endless wars (including, ironically, support for the American revolution), inadequate and regressive taxation, and impoverishment of the lower classes. The political unwillingness to reform the tax system, and instead lay more burdens on the poor. (note the parallels between the current debt talks and the 1788 Assembly of Notables). How long before the storming of the Bastille? Power is power, whether it's in private concentration or public, and nature demands equilibrium. We shall see.— montani semper liberi
- The crushing debt is hardly due to the wars or regressive taxation. Look at the budget. Then look at the states and Europe. Finally, look at WW2. That debt was repaid partially bc the gov cut spending.— RG
- WB should not talk live on the radio with people that speak to the logic and reality of this business issue of layoffs and why they happen...just like this silly column filled with emotional victimology. The American Producer is NOT the 'working man' the Medic is wailing on about; the Producer put their money and life at risk to bidon, win and execute on a job. The rest are the actors, who do their job for a price to help the Producer make a buck...You do that well and you might get a chance to share in the buck and work on the next job that the Producer competes for and wins.....Otherwise, go to Havana where everybody gets the same 3squares and a cot. Just like Graterford— kevindoc33
- "It is called capitalism and it's pursuit of profit is what built our country and made it thrive." . . . . . Of course, government seizure of lands from the natives, suppression of labor costs through immigration quotas, laws protecting the right to own slaves as chattel, regulated land distribution upon the opening of the territories, the construction and regulation of highways (e.g., I live near the first National Road, Route 40), the ports and railroads, protection of commerce through tariffs and antitrust laws, yada and so on, had nothing to do with it. Yet Henry Ford would be appalled at his counterparts today, who have no clue how to manage capitalism.— montani semper liberi
- "The crushing debt is hardly due to the wars or regressive taxation." . . . . . . Don't be a fool, RG. We had relatively progressive taxation through WW2 and the Cold War (remember the 90% top bracket?), until Reagan and then Shrub introduced the folly of supply side theory and increased military spending. Remember, Bush inherited a surplus that had followed the 1993 income tax increase under Clinton, but unlike Reagan, refused to back off his tax cut even with an open-ended War on Terror to subsidize. There are scores of regressive consumer taxes on basic commodities such as food, clothing, fuel, for Social Security and Medicare participation, etc, that have only increased since the Reagan era.— montani semper liberi
- A 90% bracket is "relatively progrressive"? LOL. Btw, it was JFK who cut that bracket, not Reagan. Clinton never had a surplus, as outstanding debt never decreased. He balanced the budget more off of higher revenues from the internet boom than higher rates. Sales taxes are a state not federal issue. Plus, dont you want higher carbon fuel taxes?— RG
- You know, bikers have a patch for the members who kill people for the club: The Filthy Few. I think the bros inadvertently coined a term for these CEOs!— Hamlet
- I'd strongly encourage everyone to read this link to get a grasp on what we're facing. The interest alone on the debt is scheduled to grow larger than the entire economy in a few decades. This, of course, wont happen because we'll implode first. Spending must be cut. http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=190082— RG
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[P]rofit margins have reached levels not seen in decades. The challenge, which we have discussed many times before: what is driving these margins? One useful way to deconstruct profits is to measure them from peak to peak, and analyze what changed. As shown in the first chart, S&P 500 profit margins increased by 1.3% from 2000 to 2007. There are a lot of moving parts in the margin equation, but as shown in the second chart, reductions in wages and benefits explain the majority of the net improvement in margins. This trend has continued; as we have shown several times over the last two years, US labor compensation is now at a 50-year low relative to both company sales and US GDP (see EoTM April 26, 2011).
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http://www.investorvillage.com/uploads/44821/files/07-11-11_-_EOTM_-_Twilight_of_the_Gods__PWM_.pdf— Talking point sleuth - --snip--
New data released by the IRS reveals that, over a period of 12 years, tax rates for the richest 400 Americans were effectively cut in half. In 1995, the richest 400 Americans paid, on average, 29.93% of their income in federal taxes. In 2007, the last year for which the IRS has released data, the richest 400 Americans paid just 16.63%.
In 1995, just 12 of the 400 richest Americans paid an effective tax rat of between zero and 15%. By 2007, that number skyrocketed to over 150. The massive reduction is due to both Bush-era tax reductions for the wealthy and the aggressive exploitation of tax dodges and shelters.
--snip--— Talking point sleuth - --snip--
Interesting interview about the taxes American corporations avoid paying by moving money overseas:
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&prgDate=4-17-2011
Factoids: The U.S. loses some 90 billion per year in corporate taxes due to financial contortions using overseas subsidiaries.
In 2005, HP brought back some $14.5 billion revenue into the country under a one-time exclusion on taxes. The same year they laid off some 14,000 workers.
In 2004 Congress passed a bill that allowed companies to bring revenues of $312 billion back into the country w/o paying taxes. Studies shows that it resulted in virtually no job creation. (Must have been because they were unsure what would happen when Obama was elected some 4 years later)
--snip--— Talking point sleuth - I have no faith in the survival of this nation when I read comments from people like kevindoc33 who forget where they came from, how they got the standard of living they were raised in, and why their current living standard is collapsing. Their mentality is based on entirely on slavery to the wealthy and investors. They have no concept of social wealth or community. They live in a dreamworld where they think they can escape to whatever environment they please, setup shop, buy off a few corrupt slobs, and that the masses of people will simply put up with their greed and arrogance.
The myth these posters espouse is that the wealthy control society merely by the ownership of wealth. That social power lies in their decisions of when and where to invest their capital.
They're ignorant about social capital and the natural need for people to have community and the ability of people to come together to create production to support their community.
Why do they believe this wealth-power myth? - Because they're ignorant of the many local currency systems throughout the world that do not depend on PRIVATE ownership of wealth, such as 'time dollar' systems, the WIR in Switzerland, and the numerous and successful barter dollar systems.
They are community ignorant, anti-social, selfish and spiteful people.
They don't care about people, community or society.
The ONLY thoughts they have are about I - ME – MINE. And to hell with everyone and everything else.
They are the reason this nation is collpasing. The ideology they support is cannibalism and ruin, not sustainability and society.
And if they think the worlds people are going to put with the I'm the King-Investor-Owner and you are all serfs on my property – they're going to get a VERY FATAL awakening as they're ripped into the streets and beaten by the angry masses – just as what happened back in the early colonial days.
The people came together at that time in mind & spirit to build a nation for The People.
The I – ME – MINE group seems to have forgotten this important American history.
Could it be their love of money over all other things – including people and nation? - "Btw, it was JFK who cut that bracket, not Reagan." . . . . . Oh my, RG, even JFK understood a 90% top rate was ridiculous under Keynsian theory, and was a leftover of the war to combat inflationary growth, so he proposed 65%. Do you know why the debt clock was removed from Times Sq near the end of Clinton's term? When it started to run backwards, it was "sending the wrong message". How could corporate America keep us prols scared of big bad gubmint without the specter of rising public debt? As for carbon taxes on us prols, I'll settle for JFK's tax rates, deal?— montani semper liberi
- The international Elite don't care about you, your community, your state, your nation or anything else - just themselves and their lifestyle, and how extract more wealth from the world and societies.
So when I read comments from ignorant posters I wonder how they became puppets of these International Elite - so damaged and clueless about real wealth.
Real wealth is given and shared. It isn't extracted and hoarded.
Yet, these puppets just parrot the same extraction and wealth CONCENTRATION concepts of their ideological icons and don't realize that wealth concentration means the STARVATION of the other PEOPLE in their SOCIETY.
Stupid, reckless, mindless puppets of the International Elite. - But you wont accept meaningful spending cuts, without which will still lead to unsustainable deficits.— RG
- We have reached the point where a Conservative, largely ignorant of thorough analysis, pretty much blindly defends these unbelievably greedy, hypocritical ("cost cutting"), bumbling CEOs and shamelessly excoriate the worker. Granted, yes, the CEO is there to maximize earnings, and ultimately the stock price. So how has Ms. Elsenhans performed? Last year earnings growth was -59.62%. The 3-year stock price return is ~13%, but lags in relative performance. Granted a significant portion of that price movement is systemic, due to a general recovery, but energy as a sector didn't drop this precipitiously, suggesting that relative, adverse price performance in the stock was due to lousy performance. So how did the CEO get rewarded for relatively terrible peformance? Exactly. It's despicable, and is an example of a totally broken BofD structure. Oh what do you know look who's the Chairman, and has control over the compensation structure of the executives!— Murrayman
- RG, I'd accept heavy cuts in discretionary spending once we've gotten the economy back to health, so it can absorb the shock. In fact, I'd even settle for no new taxes provided we make the overall burden more progressive and close special interest loopholes that impede natural innovation. As for your silly hair-splitting over federal and state taxes, since when did collective state tax policies have no impact on the national economy, or become immune to right-wing orthodoxy? I've always maintained that federalism is an outdated drain on economic growth by duplicating unnecessary layers of bureaucracy and taxation, while the modern economy has long been nationalized and is now globalized. If the right and left can meet each other half-way on this, and we all can dump our 2nd wave ideologies for thinking outside the box (sorry for the cliches), we can be the great nation JFK and Reagan each dreamed of.— montani semper liberi
- Good post, msl. RGs posts are pure rubbish, plain and simple -- data mining blog comments. "or become immune to the right-wing orthodoxy" -- when a Democratic moderate capable to being labeled Marxist took office... or before that.— Murrayman
- //Factoids: The U.S. loses some 90 billion per year in corporate taxes due to financial contortions using overseas subsidiaries. //
Great. Get every cent of it and you only have $1.3 trillion per year to go in order to close the gap.— General Turgidson - Maybe if they weren't paying for all the folks who retired at 50 instead of 62/65 there just might be something left!!!— sarah89
- Theres nothing rubbisg about math and expinential growth of dent and interest. Do it yourself on Excel. Assume an ultraconservative 8% growth of det, 5% GDP growth, and 3% interest. The interest payments still grow to an unmanageable % of GDP.— RG
- And if you think discretionary spending is the main budget driver in the future, you havent seen the projections on entitlements.— RG
- ===}}} Great. Get every cent of it and you only have $1.3 trillion per year to go in order to close the gap {{{===
Looks like Bucky has been studying at the RG School of Binary Thinking again.
Here's a hint, Bucky - reducing corporate tax loopholes is not mutually exclusive with other measures that would reduce the deficit, such as increased top-end income tax rates, cuts in defense spending, and entitlement reforms.
Tough concept, I know, but keep working on it and I'm sure you'll get it eventually.
The point of the excerpts I posted is that they put a lie to the inane talking point that reducing taxes necessarily increases employment.
Work on that for a while and I'm confident that you can understand that also.— Talking point sleuth - Entitlement reforms will never come. The AARP is already running scare ads, and Reid and Pelosi have said theyll never support it. The system will collapse, but shoot a bb at the train by collecting that $90 bil if itll make you feel better.— RG
- ===}}} And if you think discretionary spending is the main budget driver in the future, you havent seen the projections on entitlements. {{{===
Here's what exposes the faux "outrage" about chicken-little deficit whiners: they oppose addressing a fundamental aspect of future deficit expansion - health care costs. Of course, their constant whining about taxes on the uber-rich and corporations also help to expose their Fraudytood.
Libertarian extremists such as RG use faux "concern" about deficits as a cover to obscure their real interest - a radical transformation of society so that their precious tax dollars don't have to go towards helping folks that they call the "parasite class," - you know, like tens of millions of working poor, tens of millions of elderly that require help with medical costs, and tens of millions of children born into poverty.
Because, you know, they want out country to be more like the libertarian Shangri-La you can find in other countries such as.....
Oh...
Wait...
There are no such countries. As far as democratic societies with high standards of living, we actually rank near the bottom in taxes and at the top in the cost of healthcare.
— Talking point sleuth - We can put healrh care right next to housing abd college as things govwernment promised to make affordable. The only reason hc costs affect the deficit in the first place is bc gov decided to get involved via medicare. The die is cast and we're approaching endgame. Then youll get a clue on what forced disorderly austerity looks like.— RG
- The social welfare model has existed for a very small blip over human existence. The model is unsustainable and will collapse. Sovereign debt is the event horizon.— RG
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- "Tell these loser union members to work somewhere else if they aren't happy. At least they have a job. They should be grateful. " Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, NYC, March 25, 1911 (the workers there protested their conditions not long before that date)— Hamlet
- RG, there are many different proposals for Social Security reform that warrant consideration, individually or in concert. I'd like to see the retirement age indexed to life expectancy, the payroll tax applied to income over the current cap of 106,000 at a modestly progressive rate, and greater diversification of the trust fund's portfolio to achieve a higher rate of return. Persons can opt out of the system if they maintain a privately managed IRA with a slightly reduced rate of tax deferment, provided the additional tax is paid into the fund, and the Government in return guarantees a minimum rate of return from the IRA or supplements distributions with a COLA.— montani semper liberi
- Not sure how we got off track here with CEO compensation BUT, as far as what the CEO's make oh well. I don't see anyone on here saying A-Rod, LaBron, Payton, etc need to ask for a salary reduction. People get paid what the market will bear. Oh I am not a CEO and I bet I make more than you Bunch...mad at me???????— TKL008
- MSL! Privatizing retirement??? That's original.— philly2flag
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- Tax the rich. Do it fairly and progressively but do it before the solution is to take them out. America is starting to have the feel of Versailles in 1792. And if Louis deserved his fate, so do these CEOs— NJSmith
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