Time to Strip the Fat From the CEOs

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Wednesday June 10, 2009 · 12:23 PM PDT

2009/06/10 · 12:23

New York Times today details the White House appointment of an overseer to set compensation for top executives at companies currently on what I like to call "corporate welfare."

It seems these guys just got a caseworker. Maybe it's time for a home visit. In what is shaping up to be the most effective use of the title "Welfare to Work," will the titans of capital finally be subjected to their own policies?

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Top Executives Should Be Paid

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Top Executives Should Be Paid

Minimum wage

4 votes

Peanuts

0 votes

In experience they can list on a resume, it's internship time!

2 votes

Community Service--they can count it against future jail time

4 votes

Pay them billions and billions of dollars--but in Zimbabwean Dollars

6 votes

At Market Rate--which means, basically nothing

11 votes

Making Cents: The Trend for Long Term Change

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Monday July 21, 2008 · 3:49 PM PDT

2008/07/21 · 15:49

Fired up and ready to go? The typical American consumer is tired and fed up, and some of those lifestyle changes we are seeing in the face of high gas prices, growing inflation and the rising cost of living are quickly becoming habits that may have long-term staying power.

Republicans are brutally effective at taking advantage of whatever conditions present themselves to push forward their odious agendas, but in the face of the economic squeeze, here's a look at what the situation may portend for the long-term progressive agenda, and an opportunity to harness the positive changes for the advance of society.

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Which direction is the country heading?

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Which direction is the country heading?

Moving Left

9 votes

Moving Lefter

0 votes

Moving Leftest

5 votes

Kossacks Under 35: Starting Your Online Radio Show

theKK

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Thursday March 27, 2008 · 6:02 PM PDT

2008/03/27 · 18:02

Want to start your own radio show? Well, you're going to need an agent, a lawyer and a big contract. Just kidding! With new online radio platforms, all you need to get started are a few basics. Oh, and co-hosts aren't a bad idea.

***Scroll down for an On Topic radio show discussing this diary***

theKK

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Saturday March 15, 2008 · 2:24 PM PDT

2008/03/15 · 14:24

The primary wars have gotten ugly, but when we look back, the beauty of the 2007/2008 primary cycle is going to be the battle of the small and large donor, the 50 States strategy and the DLC focus-on-the-states-you-can-win strategy, and the old politics versus the progressive people-powered politics.

Yet in another shining example that the Clinton crowd just doesn't get it, we have big Clinton donors threatening to withdraw their sizable donations to the DNC if they don't get their way: Seat Florida and Michigan for Clinton or WHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! We will take our money and go home.

I don't want to hit too hard on the old versus new theme, but as has been made very apparent this this cycle **NEWSFLASH**: it's the small donors, stupid!

Michigan and Florida and politics, OH MY!

theKK

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Friday August 31, 2007 · 12:47 PM PDT

2007/08/31 · 12:47

A girl's gotta have her offline life, too, right? And while lately I've been guilty of indulging of late in a little too much of things apolitical, it always helps to have an ear to the ground.

My friends don't read Daily Kos. They don't really understand why I went to Chicago for a political nerd convention" and they were really surprised when I told them we got profiled in LA CityBeat for this campaign we are working on down in CA-42 for Ron Shepston. And even though they love me, they don't listen to my Political Nexus radio shows.

But you won't believe what I have been hearing. Because it sounds a lot more like drinking liberally than girls' night.

theKK

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Thursday May 10, 2007 · 6:12 PM PDT

2007/05/10 · 18:12

Do you keep finding jobs only to be told you need more experience? Or graduate from college only to realize that every help wanted ad asks for a years worth of experience, minimum? What do you do when all you have is that degree you spent %#*! for? And how are you supposed to get any experience if you have no experience!?!?

Believe me, I know how frustrating it is as a Young Kossack to navigate your way through the entry level job transition. You often feel you're barely qualified to apply for anything--including jobs you aren't even interested in.

Congratulations! It's time to compensate for the gap between your our educational system and the job market! I could go on and on about how ridiculously our eduicational and employment sectors intersect, but that could be a whole other diary. Instead, four years out of college, let me walk you through some tips to compensate for that lack of "experience."

theKK

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Saturday February 10, 2007 · 1:44 PM PST

2007/02/10 · 13:44

Take me back to bobby socks, baby! Only in this scenario, let's envision what a modern meld of ~~Republican~~ Republic social engineering and their nostalgia for an idealized 1950s would get us. Follow me back in time and into the conservative mind...

theKK

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Thursday January 25, 2007 · 6:03 PM PST

2007/01/25 · 18:03

In case your pocket doesn’t feel fully picked by college costs, graduate school, wages that don't keep pace with inflation or that crappy service sector job, there is always the roof over your head to worry about. And when it comes to real estate, today’s young kossacks under 35 are swimming against the tide--of lemmings.

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What is your status?

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What is your status?

I bought at the bottom

11 votes

I bought at the top

4 votes

I bought, therefore I am

21 votes

I rent

69 votes

I go to craigslistâ€<sup>TM</sup>s real estate and search â€oereducedâ€ for fun

4 votes

I am Casey Serin, and I'm facing foreclosure

2 votes

I.R.S. Corporate Auditors Jumping Ship due to Lax Enforcement

theKK

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Friday January 12, 2007 · 12:45 PM PST

2007/01/12 · 12:45

In case the Bush tax cuts, the millions Halliburton has "lost" in Iraq, and the abolition of the Estate Tax (for those who work so hard at not working) weren't scandal enough, the New York Times reports on tax reforms from 2003 that are effectively allowing companies to defraud millions from the US government--and get away with it.

Oh, but those of you who work for a living? Don't get any funny ideas about your taxes : somebody needs to be left holding the bag.

theKK

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Wednesday January 10, 2007 · 2:07 PM PST

2007/01/10 · 14:07

Last year was a good year for global warming--from a PR perspective.

There was An Inconvenient Truth, this TIME cover here and that Newsweek cover there. Blowhards like Neil Cavuto railed against Happy Feet for what they shrilly decried as "far left" propaganda. There was also, unfortunately, the discovery that "a giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada's Arctic."

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Will they ever get it?

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Will they ever get it?

When Hell freezes over

43 votes

When their ice hole doesn't

137 votes

The High Cost of Low Mileage

theKK

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Saturday April 22, 2006 · 12:55 PM PDT

2006/04/22 · 12:55

I don't know about anyone else but I am tired of the constant lies and misinformation the media likes to promulgate regarding Hybrid cars. The same media culture that loves to promote all combination of risky financing for housing and frivolous spending is a real stickler for insisting that the Hybrid vehicle is a net loss--and that the gas a Hybrid will save you will not pay the sticker price.

theKK

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Thursday February 09, 2006 · 11:03 AM PST

2006/02/09 · 11:03

Bonddad's excellent recommended diary today was an excellent reminder of the perils facing twenty-somethings and the American economy in general.

However, there are a lot of misconceptions still out there about this issue, including and especially regarding college graduate employment figures. As one commenter responded to bondad:

College Grads Can't Find Jobs? Can that be right? The BLS tables show that the unemployment rate for college graduates currently is 2.1%...Unfortunately for many college graduates, it seems that the reading and writing standard English and speaking clearly requirements present insurmountable hurdles.

Unfortunately, there are many people (especially boomers) who carry this prejudice, and I feel it needs to be addressed.
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It's the small donors, stupid

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Policy Prescriptions from the 1950s

Kossacks Under 35: Real Estate

I.R.S. Corporate Auditors Jumping Ship due to Lax Enforcement

The Inconvenient Truth Dawns on Red State Outdoorsmen

The High Cost of Low Mileage

Don't Trust the Economy, Stupid!