Tea Party Enraged! OWS Efforts Lead to Lower Pay for CEOs

by **pimpdave** on Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:40 am

The Tea Party (a violent, racist organization) was enraged today at news that Citigroup's CEO's proposed pay raise was voted down by shareholders. The Tea Party of course wants to see the wealthiest one percent only get more wealthy by robbing from the middle class.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/ ... -pay-plan/

What do you guys think? Should the Tea Party, neo-cons, and the Koch brothers always get their way? Or are you glad that the OWS movement is having a real positive effect on the irrational exuberance that has led to our severe recessions in the last decade?

by **kentington** on Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:02 pm

pimpdave wrote:The Tea Party (a violent, racist organization) was enraged today at news that Citigroup's CEO's proposed pay raise was voted down by shareholders. The Tea Party of course wants to see the wealthiest one percent only get more wealthy by robbing from the middle class.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/ ... -pay-plan/

What do you guys think? Should the Tea Party, neo-cons, and the Koch brothers always get their way? Or are you glad that the OWS movement is having a real positive effect on the irrational exuberance that has led to our severe recessions in the last decade?

The Tea Party (a kind, gun toting respectful working class organization) was not mentioned at all in this article, least of all does it say they were enraged. The Tea Party wants the people to control things not the government. Thus, what happened here would make the Tea Party happen. They don't mind if the share holders decide not to pay more, they mind when the government tells the shareholders they can't pay more or tell the CEO they can't make more.

by **pimpdave** on Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:12 pm

Why does the Tea Party get so enraged by the success of populist and virtuous movements such as OWS?

by **kentington** on Wed Apr 18, 2012 7:05 pm

I haven't seen any outrage. I certainly wouldn't say one shareholder vote is success for OWS either. OWS doesn't exactly know what it wants. They hardly agree.
When did selfishness/laziness/stealing = virtuous?