I am having trouble understanding a few things about the economy and how big business works. Right now the economy is in big trouble, we have the Banks that needed to be bailed out by the United States government, but the bank raises the fees for bounced checks and let more people go so there are fewer workers in the bank to take care of customers. Yet the CEO’s and anyone higher up the chain get bigger bonuses and more goodies even though they had to downsize; how does that make things right?

I used to work for Gateway as a customer support technician. They decided to move the operations overseas to India to save money so they could develop newer technologies and create new jobs. The only place they created anything is in their pockets. They may have developed newer computers faster smaller and all sorts of goodies, but this was all done over seas where the labor is cheaper, and they lined their pockets with more money.

About 5 years ago there was an airline that the workers were going to go on strike. The company CEO went to the Union Leaders and said look if you go for more money we will be forced into bankruptcy. He really pleaded and made the union think that they were all going to loose if they persisted. So the Union backed down. Guess what the CEO and board of directors did, they all gave themselves a pat on the back for avoiding a strike and lined their pockets with big fat bonuses. This did not sit well with the workers, in the end the Board of Directors found it prudent to return that nice little bonus and give it to the workers who are actually making the money for those idiots.

I wondered if we all got together and started to boycott certain business for a set period of time to really shake these jerks up a little and make them think about how they really do have it too nice. Would that make a difference?

One other thing right now there is a guy accused of insider trading. His name is Mark Cuban if he is found guilty I think it only fair that he pays back all of the funds that he made plus a fine in fact he should be kicked down to the bottom of the ladder. He is not just stealing money from insider trading we ALL suffer as it affects all of us. It devalues every bodies stocks and retirement funds. Look up past insider trading and see if after some sanctimonious CEO and board of directors who decided on a get rich scheme did not affect you retirement account.

I think all CEOs and anyone on the board of directors are overpaid and need to return all bonuses and perks until the US has a stable economy. Or do I have a warped view of the way it all works?

For every ones information the way they calculate the unemployment figures is BASED on people who are actually drawing an unemployment check, not the ones who have lost their benefits or those denied unemployment because they were terminated with cause.