Average CEO Pay 2011 Nearly $10 Million At Public Companies: AP Study

You mean you didn't get a 200% raise this year? When will the 1% realize that the 99% outnumber them? It is only a matter of time....
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Bank locally - save community banks and credit unions

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blog/jeff-blumenthal/2012/05/another-bank-paying-millions-to-settle.html?ana=handmark

Here is another reason to bank locally with your community bank or credit union.  Although politicians may feel these mega banks are too big to fail; apparently they are not too big to charge fees thru the nose.  If people don't start abandoning these mega banks and support local (like any other business) then we all will be a the whim of 4-5 huge financial institutions.  Who is going to stop them when they form a cartel an control all fees and charges?  Think about it...

Brett Lawrie Ejected: Blue Jays' 3B Throws Helmet That Hits Umpire Bill Miller After Called Strike (VIDEO)

It's a kids game that you make big bucks for you schmuck. You know how many people would just love to get paid to play the game and a jerk like this, Brett Lawrie, has to give players a black eye. Go get a real job or maybe next time hit the ball if it is close to being a strike.....
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Yolanda Quesada Fired From Wells Fargo For Shoplifting 40 Years Ago

It is amazing that Wells Fargo will fire this woman for a crime committed 40 years ago when she was 18. Shoplifting as a teenager.... Wow. In the mean time the top honchos of this Mega bank have been ripping off the consumers for years... Causing a mortgage crisis and housing crisis.... Now charging senior citizens with bogus fees that were not charged to them when they banked with the prior bank Wells Fargo gobbled up. The following people with their huge salaries should be ashamed of themselves...How do they sleep at night?

Richard M. Kovacevich, Chairman $22.9million

John G. Stumpf, Pres & CEO $12million

Howard I. Atkins, SEVP & CFO $5.1Million

David A. Hoyt, SEVP & Wholesale Banking $6.4million

Mark C. Oman,SEVP & Consumer Finance $6.4million

Carrie L. Tolstedt, SEVP & Community Banking $4million

Total compensation = $56.8million...... Wonder how much Yolanda Quesada will be set back once she hits the unemployment line.....

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Bank Of America Names Global Ad Agency In Aim To Revamp Its Reputation

This is a perfect reason why people should be patronizing their local neighborhood banks and credit unions; that is if they are still around. B of A's mea culpa is too late. They along with the other larger banks (there is only one larger then them) are the cause for the mortgage and housing mess that this country is in today. As the upper management of these super banks reap or rather rape millions for themselves; how could they ever identify with the working class people. Again the power of the people lies in their consumer power. If we all refuse to bank with these super banks - maybe then they will identify...

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'Good Morning America' Beat 'Today' Last Week: Report

This is the fallout from the Today show having no-term Gov. Palin on. She may have won the battle against an avid reader like Katie Couric, but golly gee she cost the Today show the war.
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Rush Limbaugh On Hilary Rosen's Ann Romney Comments: Democrats Launched 'War On Motherhood' (AUDIO)

Why do these super rich 1%'s always want to say they identify with the working class or the working poor. Mitt Romney probably has never been in a supermarket or pumped gas in his privileged life unless it was for a campaign photo shoot. And albeit that Mrs. Romney worked hard as a mother - and being a full time mother is a hard job, but you mean to tell me she didn't have help as opposed to the single mom who has to work 2 jobs and be a mother. Wake up - you are not like the working class and never will be. I commend you on reaching a status that many of us want to reach - but stop trying to be like the other 99% who suffer day to day. Cause once you walked in their shoes, for campaign reasons, you have the the comfort of taking those shoes of and putting your $500.00 loafers back on.
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