Your post is a vast oversimplification and barely a half truth. Neither large nor small companies start at the top when trimming fat. I've yet in my life to see a scenario where a company failed to reach it's goals and responded by lowering the salaries of it's highest paid employees. There are always layoffs to be made, divisions to be jettisoned, and benefits to be cut.
So you admit government spending has gone down under Obama.
Neither large nor small companies start at the top when trimming fat. I've yet in my life to see a scenario where a company failed to reach it's goals and responded by lowering the salaries of it's highest paid employees. There are always layoffs to be made, divisions to be jettisoned, and benefits to be cut.
I am sure Obama wants the smallest government possible. He will join the Libertarian Party when he retires from office.
Look at government spending, the number of regulations, the number of mandates. Government is getting more onerous all the time. It is too big.
That is a very good point, I'll admit to having been talking out of my ass on that one. Small business owners certainly do make sacrifices for the benefit of their employees.You clearly have never been on the ownership side of a small business. Most small business owners feel a tremendous amount of responsibility for their employees and will go out of their way to ensure the employees are paid first and are the last to feel the knife when times are tough. When you hear about small business employees taking a pay cut you don't hear about how the owner has already gone months with a pay cut first, or where the owner has taken on more debt to try and get the company back on good financial footing.
Large businesses on the other hand...
That is a very good point, I'll admit to having been talking out of my ass on that one. Small business owners certainly do make sacrifices for the benefit of their employees.
2&2's rebuttal was also a good one, those examples do contradict my anecdotal argument. From those examples it was nearly all stock and ownership benefits that fluctuated, right?
Ah so when proven wrong, tj has to go to namecalling. When the reality, the numbers the facts all prove you wrong, rather than admitting it, this is your response.
The chart is useless. There were no social programs before the late thirties and life expectancy has grown dramatically since then. Add to these factors the Baby Boom after WWII.
Look at government spending, the number of regulations, the number of mandates. Government is getting more onerous all the time. It is too big.