A reason to hire me
Let’s look at the value added by CEOs
There’s been much discussion about whether or not CEOs of large corporations are paid too much, since many of them get as much as 322 times the pay of their average employee. The question should be, what value do they…
Instead of us paying more, Ameren execs could take less
AmerenUE now wants an 18% rate hike. The third requested in 3 years.
Here is a better idea. Why don’t we have Mr. Baxter and all the high-paid execs take a big pay cut.
Instead of making their millions in pay, bonuses…
Restricting compensation would hinder recovery
| Banks already have begun to return federal assistance money. They don’t want to live with restrictions in executive compensation and other areas. While these restrictions have support amongst the uninformed, they are counter-recovery – a classic example of unintended consequences.
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Limiting CEO pay isn’t the solution
Bill McClellan suggested a maximum wage for executives of publicly traded companies. The current methods for awarding executive compensation lack effective checks against abuse of power. It’s difficult to find anyone except those in the executive fraternity themselves, who feels…
What is wrong with us that we allow CEOs to treat us as slaves?
I would like to add my 2 cents worth. The column Bill McClellan wrote 11/21 was right on target. The payment to people who rise to the top of a company is obscene. They are thieves who when they leave…
Free trade should not mean shipping all of our jobs overseas
McClellan has started something.
On Nov.21 Bill McClellan wrote an article dealing with gross injustices by the big CEOs of big and small ompanies.Even though I agree with Bill on most of his views, I disagree on bailing out the Big…
Can we at least prosecute the CEOs for malfeasance?
OK, we taxpayers are bailing out financial institutions that paid their top executives millions in bonuses even when those executives knew their companies were not only failing but cooked the books so they could make even more money. Let’s prosecute…
Lower taxes for the rich as our taxes are used to bail out their mistakes?
Thanks for showing theh annual pay for the top executives in St. Louis in the Sept. 28 in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Post-Dispatch founder Joseph Pulitzer started his career by exposing wealthy tax dodgers using similar public disclosure as a…

