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"The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag." -- Kin Hubbard
December's Lowdown
Corporate elites and their small-minded political servants are creating the Incredibly Shrinking America
"We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." What a paragraph! This sparse, 52-word opening of our Constitution did not merely launch a fledgling nation--but a bold experiment in democratic idealism.
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He's number one!
Michael Eisner is back at the top of his game. The chief mousketeer at Disney Inc. had lost his #1 ranking as the highest paid CEO in all of corporatedom, but this year's Business Week listings (April 14th issue) put him back at the head of the pack. He hauled in $287,000 last year. Not for the year nor for a month, a week, or a day. He took $287,000 an hour. He's also #1 in Business Week's rankings of chief execs who delivered the least value to their shareholders for the pay they got. And this says nothing about Eisner's continuing push to exploit sweatshop labor in Haiti, China, and elsewhere, nor about his move to cut healthcare benefits for the low wage workers he dresses up as Pluto and Goofy at Disney World and Disneyland. Michael seems to think he's top dog . . . and everyone else is just a bunch of fire hydrants.