Distractions
If you added up all the compensation for the top 500 CEOs in 2007, including salaries, bonuses, stock grants, and stock gains, you get a grand total of $6.4 billion.
This entire sum would pay for Obama's 2010 annual Federal budget for about sixteen hours.
It is eight-tenths of one percent of the "stimulus" bill. 1.6 percent of Bush's TARP bill (so far).
You really think this "unfairness" is what's tipping the economy over?
This entire class warfare canard has only one purpose: to distract people from the real economic issues.