You know, the Hollywood stars get paid their enormous salaries even on movies that flop at the box office. So your argument doesn't hold water.

Tell me.....should the CEO of Exxon get 1/29th of that corporation's profits???

Is there anybody else who is not buying the "busy on laptops" excuse of the pilots? I'm thinking they were just getting busy in the cockpit. So now we have Congress to the rescue saying no laptops in the pilot seats. I feel so much safer now.

That article on Bartering Away Free Speech for the Sake of International Consensus is very informative.
Free speech is the only real right we have. With it, we can change any other right; and we can change it back if we don't like the result.
Without it we have nothing and we are nothing.

Neal, I was driving and couldn't write down the URL for the Obama calculator. Please post it in your notes?

You screwed it up once, second time you gotta provide proof of purchase, padre. Let's see a link.

actually my math was correct...my reporting of their 3rd quarter gross was wrong...it should have read 24 billion. and yes that would be an excessive salary.

Airlines should charge the passengers for the extra ride. They only paid for a 300 mile shorter ride.
B!tch ... b!tch ... b!tch
Same passengers that grip because the airlines didn't hold the flight until they themselves showed up 10 minutes late for takeoff.

Gee, it's really too bad that snarkybird doesn't actually read the articles that Neal Posts here, then she come to understand how Lame her founding fathers/three branches of government line has become.

let me get this straight...you think it is ok for someone to recieve one dollar from every 29 dollars a company grosses? wow..I would love to be in charge of that company...let's see...FMC grossed 28 billion last quarter...based on your 29 to 1 formula the CEO should be paid 827 million....and that is for just one quarter!

As the regulars here know, man-made global warming is a religious belief; it certainly has nothing to do with science.

Perhaps environmental beliefs here can be given the same protection we currently afford to Christianity, i.e. ZERO.

If we treated it the same way, you wouldn't be able to mention global warming in government schools.

It's the difference between success and failure. For every dollar Matt Damon earned for his role in the Bourne Ultimatum, the movie grossed $29.

Boortz doesn't come out and say he's for salary limits in Hollywood, nor does he even have the guts to say unsuccessful banks and successful movies should be subject to the same Federal rules -- he and Dan Gifford just want to play the victim card for Wall Street like . Wah.

How can that unscrupulous construction worker feed his four uncalled-for children with government food stamps when Wall Street bankers are being subjected to such inhumane regulations?

Hey lefties, how would you *feel* if the government imposed salary caps upon the overpaid and greedy celebrities that instruct you on how to think? On the one hand, they violate the anti-capitalist rhetoric they instruct you to repeat but on the other hand they are your gods and you can't limit the power of a god.

I'm sure you feel your strings being pulled at this moment to resist this. The Geppettos of Hollywood are a powerful force, but don't you have a portion of your mind that isn't under Hollywood's control that is bothered by this blatant hypocrisy?

I’m a democrat waking up this fine Nov morning. I am fully aware of the major hurdles facing my party in ‘10 and ’12. Some bullets to ponder on democrat strategy of survival…

>How the heck are we going to get the entitlement and minority crowd into the voting booth?
>I’m calling ACORN immediately to see what ideas they have (e.g. money, busses, money, “escorts”, money, multi-votes, money, etc).
>Got to find some more independents to use as sacrificial anodes – like we tried with Dagget. Remember to allocate some funding for the robo-calls we’ll be making endorsing these guys.
>got to derail this insane conservative freight train – must discredit by any means necessary. See if maddow, olberman, stewart, and maher have any ideas…
>send warning letter to CNN – some of their commentary is becoming too critical of the Chosen One – zere vill be consequences if zis continues…
>remember to get lists of recently deceased in 2010 and 2012 (valuable absentee ballots!).
>need mainstream African-Americans who are articulate and bright and clean and nice-looking guys (hey-if Biden said it then it’s okay) to put on the big race ballots. This will help with first bullet above.
>must get supporters to start breathing through their noses and firming up jaw muscles
>see if we can get recount margin criteria expanded – if we can get the recount going then it’s in the bag once we manufacture enough votes. (note to self – call franken for advise on this)
>keep putting moles like snowe, collins, and graham into their ranks – true GOP reform is gonna wipe us out if we don’t.
>it’s not over in VA and NJ – maybe we can find enough discrimination and disenfranchised voters for another election (call all the race pimps ASAP)
>I’m not laughing so hard at those tea parties anymore – those a$$holes mean business! (sigh)
>I’m going to take a bubble bath now – maybe I’ll throw some glitter in the water – that’ll cheer me up!

The reason the left has no problems with salaries of actors, directors, artists, and atheletes is that they earn that on their personal abilities.
The thought is they would be just as good and talented if they were alone.
While CEOs and the ilk get paid because they exploint the workers.
If that's true Adrian Peterson would still lead the league if he played for the Lions.