[Hoot Gibson]

Anyone care to address the base concept that the CEO to employee salary ratio differential in the last thirty years suggests the larger prinicple that the system is structured to redistribute money upward?

Let's just cut everybody's pay to minimum wage level so we can pay off the national debt. That would be fair, wouldn't it, CM?

If the owner(s) of a company wants to pay his CEO $1 billion a year but can still manage to pay me a competitive salary, then my only question is, "To whom should I send my resume?"

The class warfare of the socialists in this country turns my stomach. A healthy economy is not a zero-sum game. Obama can instruct his "pay czar" to cap CEOs' salaries in this country at 10 times the lowest paid employee's pay rate and nobody would be any better off as a result.

You could take all of the wealth in this country and distribute it among the poorest 50 percent of the population, and within a generation the wealth distribution would not be much different than it is today. Success is generally not a matter of luck.

I have read many tragic stories of lottery winners who squander their fortunes but I cannot recall a single story of a lottery winner joining the ranks of the "uber" rich. Easy come, easy go is the rule and not the exception among lottery winners.