{"id":21,"date":"2008-02-22T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:27:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:27:48","slug":"pot-kettle-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Pot &#8211; Kettle &#8211; Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I see that our illustrious congressmen \/ congresswomen are going to <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/02\/22\/news\/newsmakers\/executive_pay\/index.htm?cnn=yes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">haul some bank executives to capitol hill<\/a> and grill them regarding their high paychecks. I am sure John Q Public will be cheering on the sidelines. After all, how DARE these CEOs collect multi million dollar salaries and bonuses while the mortgage industry is in crisis !<\/p>\n<p>So like the oil company execs who have to literally apologize every time the price of oil goes up and the company makes a few billion, congress is now going to look into the salaries of the banking executives.<\/p>\n<p>The sheer GALL of this strikes me absurd! I have just one question. How is the Federal Government doing? By any measure &#8211; financial, productivity, pick any one. Now shall we start talking about &#8220;pay for performance&#8221;? The country is $10 TRILLION in debt and the congress and senate keep voting themselves raises year after year. How come no one is hauling them to answer before self appointed committees?<\/p>\n<p>And to the John Q Public &#8211; my answer is simple. This is America. If you want to earn millions being a CEO, NO ONE is stopping you. This is just jealousy, pure and simple. If the execs are to be held accountable they need to be held accountable at a shareholders meeting. NOT on capitol hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I see that our illustrious congressmen \/ congresswomen are going to haul some bank executives to capitol hill and grill them regarding their high paychecks. I am sure John Q Public will be cheering on the sidelines. After all, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=21\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}