The House floor was the scene of some heated exchanges after Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) took the floor to address the 9/11 Health and Compensation Act.
While this is merely a heated and not offensive exchange. It is representative of the diminishing level of discourse in Congress on both sides. Congress is becoming the WWF without the folding chairs and pile drivers.
Bdaman:
wont that churning action also oxygenate the water as well?
Blouise:
So what did you do?
Anonymously Yours
1, August 1, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Blouise,
Is your Significant Other going or does he not mind?
You said you are doing Mexican right?
I just love Mexican too….
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AY, I love you!! He always tags along. We met when we were 19, engaged for 2 years and now married for 44 years. For the first few years I performed on stage and he learned how to handle jealousy. He tells everyone that his sole purpose in living is to provide me with whatever support I need for whatever it is I choose to do next. Now … how can one not love a man like that!?
Food!!
Yea me too, I’m off to the kitchen, all the restaurants here suck.
The McDonalds is doing well and I’m pretty sure it’s at both locations.
Buddha:
“He’d likely prove you wrong vis a vis his view of current executive pay if he were around.”
Considering I agree with Deming on executive compensation I am not at all sure what you mean. Can you please explain.
By the way, I also think that 25 million or 50 million is too much to pay an executive but then it is also too much to pay movie stars and professional athletes. But then if someone is stupid enough to pay them that is a free market. I don’t think the government should be telling anyone what they can make. It will lead to wage controls across all sectors of the economy.
Byron,
The people who need it are called entrepreneurs and they create jobs for people like me and you.
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Oh brother, I couldn’t let that condescending remark pass without responding.
Honey, I am an entrepreneur and my investors were more than happy to risks their funds because I’m that good. Their profit when I sold the business … 225% … not counting dividends through the years. Not a one of them claimed to be doing anything more than looking for a way to make money.
Save your preaching for the dumb bunnies who only know how to talk the game … I’ve played it, won, and am not at all impressed by your rhetoric!
Now … off to one of the 4 new restaurants that have opened within the last 3 months.
Mexican here too, but homemade.
Beef enchiladas, guacamole and ranchero-style beans (pintos with chorizo, jalapeños and cilantro).
Speaking of which . . .
Things are good, getting ready for what should be Tropical Storm Colin around Wednesday and a Cat. 1 or possibly 2 lurking in the Bahamas by weekend.
Thats when the forecast gets a little iffy. Hopefully it will get into the Gulf and become a huge washing machine to help clean up the mess, then on it’s way to Northern Louisianana. Break all that oil down some more so them microbes can eat.
Looks like they’ll starve themselves to death shortly.
Well, Byron, those aren’t the people sitting on the huge reserves you’re worried about then.
Buddha:
I don’t agree with the Wall St. bail out period, I think they should have gone out of business or been taken over.
I was thinking of the many small businessmen and women who are actually afraid of the course the economy is taking. The ones that employ 5, 10, 20 up to a couple of hundred people and don’t want to hire because they don’t know what is coming.
The big corporations and Wall St. can worry about themselves. Small business people are the ones that create most of the jobs in this country and if they can have extra cash they can hire someone or buy a new piece of equipment which would allow another company to hire someone.
Blouise,
Is your Significant Other going or does he not mind?
You said you are doing Mexican right?
I just love Mexican too….
Have a good dinner Blouise
Blouise,
How can Battery Manufuckyouers afford Hammers at the price that the Government buys them for NASA at…Why sell them to a Manufacture at 10 dollars when you can sell the same ones to NASA for 319 and earn a better ROI with less workers. You must be kidding me.
Byron,
Deming is dead and he died before the era of the Clown Bush when CEO pay really rocketed to it’s current ridiculous disproportions. A PA clearly reveals that’s part of the problem with corporations right now. It’s draining operating capital into a top heavy executive. That Aesop Frog story just as easily applies to corporations you know. I wouldn’t hang your hat on the opinion of a man who died before the situation changed drastically to back you up considering the rest of the efficiency geared nature of his work. He’d likely prove you wrong vis a vis his view of current executive pay if he were around.
Off to dinner … lots of new restaurants opening around here … I wonder what that means ….
AY,
Doing Mexican this evening
Blouise:
I own a Ford, actually 2 and a Jeep. I don’t like rice rockets.
I had read that Ford was doing well and that the other companies were having some problems. If what you are saying is correct, that is very good news.
Actually an economy needs all types of people doing all different things. Wall St. is necessary because they bring money from people who have it to people who need it. The people who need it are called entrepreneurs and they create jobs for people like me and you.
If this mechanism wasn’t in place there would not be very many jobs available because it would be hard to find money to start companies.
I guess you agree with me then that the oil drilling moratorium was a bad thing and hurt many people.
… the misspelling of your name was a typo … I’m into real divisiveness, not cheap shots
Brfyuon,
You cannot have a growing middle class in a stagnant economy.
Wrong oh republican wise one, A growing middle class ends the stagnate economy
But anyway the simple fact of the matter is that you see the jobs created by government spending, what you don’t see is the jobs not created by the government spending money that would have been used by private individuals to create jobs in other areas. So the people that produce batteries (as in your example) are taking jobs from people that might have produced hammers.
Wrong again … battery manufacturers need hammers
badtroll,
You couldn’t beat me at pool or with a cue. Although your intimations of violence make me laugh in your face, if it helps your shattered ego, think what you like.
Byron,
Nice to see you still think the 1%’s shouldn’t have to carry their fair share of the load after the tax payers bailed them out of their Ponzi schemes on Wall St. Those “individuals” you’re so worried about were in part given the money so they’d use it to rebuild the economy, not sit on it like Croesus for their personal benefit and the benefit of their non-employee shareholders. Screw their worries.
You serving cake with rationalized greed or is it ala carte?
Smom:
I have figured out that Bush was a very bad president, but executive salaries were capped during the Clinton years and other methods were found for compensation.
Personally I like what W. Edwards Deming has to say about executive compensation.