The Most Outrageous Acts of Corporate America: Footnoted.com

people are mad because all these corporation make vast profits, take taxpayer money in the form of subsidies and then complain they are running out of money and need MORE tax dollars in the form of bailouts or the economy will collapse!! then they pay outrageous salaries and bonuses to executives whose only profit increasing idea is to send job overseas so they can get away with paying slave wages. which in turn allows them to raise their own salaries and bonuses!!

When the jobs are all gone overseas and the corporation go to the gov't for their weekly corporate welfare and find out the gov't has no money left to give them, then maybe the american people will understand how the economic crisis happened!!

people have got to stop watching fox news. why is it that every little thing the government does wrong is outrageously magnified, but corporations get away scott free? riddle me that

the only reason this is relevant is all the bailout money that has been passed out recently. corporations dont want regulation but they sure wanted tax money when they went bust. other than that, youre right, who cares if shareholders dont care. its their money

Apparently corporations feel it���s appropriate to lavish such gifts on their executives because they are their little snookums and their poopsie-boopkin honey snuggles, and no expense is too great if it makes their little sweetie-bunches happy.

for most part when you vote republican your voteing for theese pigs,never mind that they use religion to get elected-the above is what there realy about.they give organised religion what ever they want, they personaly could care less but theyw ill use organised religion to get elected to office-look at john mCcane of republican party-when asked how many homes he owned,he said that question would half to be referred to his secratary.this man doznt know what home hes going to at the end of the day.yet hes in touch with the american people,yet he never saw the finacial crise we were in he had to be told,rest the country new.its just dicusting and sick.

I find nothing outrageous about any of this. The issue here is whether the US is a free country. Corporations express their will through elected corporate boards. Ralph Lauren should be able to expense his relatives by paying them reasonable amounts. What's reasonable? These numbers may seem high but I am not troubled because I consider that this income is taxed.
I'll tell you whats outrageous-what we get for our taxes. Schools that don't teach, gestural, ineffective wars, agencies that don't regulate, the SEC, the MMS, etc., or wreak havoc, Fannie, et al. Most odious, gov acts as a robin hood, redistributing earned income to the undeserving poor, almost half the population.

Wow! I am finally getting some attention. The undeserving poor is a from GBS. I have a serious problem with them. 1or2 percent should need assistance. Not half. I plan to take over later this year and I want everyones support. Our biggest problem is the poor quality of our people. Those who need assistance must stop having children. 20% support a welfare state of 150M. D CJohnston, FreeLunch, P11. This trend will result in 10% supporting 200M in ten to twenty years. P11. The ten percent will impose a dictatorship to protect their wealth. I have a better idea. My plan is to acknowledge that our government is a scandal and misfortune and replace gov workers at all levels with retired volunteers, end the wars and most gov programs and spend the trillions saved on infrastructure. We doubled GDP in the five war years. I will double it in three, provide full employment and double family wealth. Half of our population is addicted and /or retarded. All Illicit drugs can be replaced by prescribed equivalents. All you have to do is go to a pain clinic and say your back hurts. This implies that the war on illegal drugs is futile. I would release all drug offenders and treat drugs as a medical problem. I want a population of self sufficient people who don't need gov in loco parentis. People who can save for their own retirement and health care. The animals in the field care for their young. Most Americans can't even take care of themselves. We have to allow/encourage them to die childless. They are tragedies for themselves and society.
Our Wienocracy must go. I want direct democracy by referendum. I will live in half a duplex in DC and fly coach. The Roman Empire was administered from one building in Rome. I will administer all functions of government at all levels with my volunteers. Could 70 year olds have done what the Seals did to Bin Laden? Hell yes. What will you call me? How about Trustee in Bankruptcy? I don't want to be elected. I want to be chosen by acclamation, like the first President. But by Amendment. I'll tell you when to get your pitchforks.
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67,000 doesn't buy such a great car - it's a mid-range Benz or Mercedez, maybe an Audi.

Please, CDS are by far the most outrageous acts of WS.

The real seat of Government is in Gotham, not DC.

These Corrupt Regimes the past 40 years are responsible for the DEBT, not the people, not the working class and certainly not the unborn.

You ocksuckers.

Are you serious? This is outrageous???? Move to Greece and stop the moronic reporting.

Dan and Michelle aren't outraged their envious. These are all private enterprises that are spending their own money on compensation for their employees and real estate purchases. Dan and Michelle are free to question the the wisdom decisions, but it's frankly it doesn't matter what they think.

This is one of the stupidest pieces I have seen on this video spot.

Nitpicking jealous liberals! That beach resort will employ lots of maids and dishwashers. Jerome and David Lauren contribute untold billions to the economy by choosing the right buttons for shirts, and airbrushing those bulging crotches in the magazine ads. Those crotches ain't gonna bulge themselves! And the Grumman hardware that gets blown up killing Arabs, well, even at $10 million per dead Arab, you can't put a price on being able to stick your finger in the air and bellow "USA NUMBER ONE!!!!" Money well spent, and I for one support the troops and send every spare dime I can to DoD, Arlington, VA. And you're a communist if you don't do the same.

Cut taxes for the wealthy, close the socialist public schools, vote Palin 2012!

i sure dont remember people keeping track of bush jrs travel expenses but i could be wrong

Wow! Michelle Leder, Daniel Gross and the Daily Ticker crowd are clearly some pretty easily outraged peeps.

1. Oh, oh! A company buys a piece of real estate with its own money. How very strange! How very horrible. Doesn't Athena Health know that only government politicians such as Christopher Dodd have the right to buy real estate?

2. Oh, no! Ralph Lauren gave a nice job to his own relative! How could he do that? Doesn't he understand that nepotism should be done entirely at government expense as with Hillary Clinton being appointed Secretary of State for no better reason than who she was married to?

3. Wahhhh! Northup-Grumman is paying money to help its employees with a move that it itself had ordained. Don't they understand that they should be like liberals in Congress and just mandate expenses for other people without paying for them? Wahhh!

4. Oh dear! Advanced Analogic Technologies traded gadgets with a departing employee to make sure that proprietary information stayed proprietary. Doubtless Michelle Leder would be happier with them if they went the TSA route and started confiscating personal property at the point of a gun.

*This* is the best they can do for outrageous things in corporate America? I sincerely doubt they'd last 5 minutes around Chicago politicians like Mr. Obama if this is all it takes to outrage them! :P

I guess Dan and Michelle is then totally outraged with Mrs. Obama taking a weeks vacation at taxpayers expense of over $255,000 just because she can still get away with it.
Mr. Obama's trip around the world to see his Muslims roots cost taxpayers several millions of dollars that along with the trillions on additional debt he has been able to run up must also be on there mine.

Guys, corporate America is spending THEIR money: the companies you cite were NOT bailout recipients. Why not concentrate on the foolish things the GOVERNMENT is spending money on? Oh yeah, I forget liberals think that corporate spending is bad, government spending is good. Sorry...

These companys are all demonrat supporters. The rich demonrats at work again. Greddy @#$%.