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In reply to the discussion: Meet the CEO Who Cut Worker Pay in Half While Pulling in $21 Million Last Year [View all]Agschmid
(28,749 posts)46. Yup.
I mean the company actually discontinued the flagship "Taurus" before he got to the helm... horrible decision making.
"Corporate overlords" and all Mullaly has been known to build success from many things he touches, see the Boeing 777 program.
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Meet the CEO Who Cut Worker Pay in Half While Pulling in $21 Million Last Year [View all]
xchrom
Mar 2013
OP
Actually, wages from $25 to $40 an hour do trickle down to the economy at a high rate.
haele
Mar 2013
#44
Deep breath - The benefit is in the taxes and spending that the $50K - $100K does.
haele
Mar 2013
#74
No I'm making this point because this is part of the research I am doing for my degree.
haele
Mar 2013
#77
OK - 95% of my family income going to taxes and local businesses means I'm just like the top 1%
haele
Mar 2013
#80
Swing away - notice that though I tell you the percentage of taxes that come out of my paycheck -
haele
Mar 2013
#82
Side comment - If you want to know what your vet's life of luxery is, look up kestrel91316
haele
Mar 2013
#83
So, what do you think would be a fair hourly wage for entry-level employees? (nt)
Nye Bevan
Mar 2013
#41
Can't support a family of 4 in the Bay Area. That's right at the poverty level.
demosincebirth
Mar 2013
#53
When I had an entry-level job in the 1980s I couldn't even afford an apartment of my own.
Nye Bevan
Mar 2013
#54
So... He's the new Jack Welch and all the MBA lemmings are following in his lead?
Hugin
Mar 2013
#20
If we had Medicare for All, the worker's health insurance costs wouldn't be in car prices.
Scuba
Mar 2013
#29
It's one of those things that makes all the sense in the world, which is why it'll never happen.
HughBeaumont
Mar 2013
#35
Now if the executives salaries was cut by half then the company could return the workers
Thinkingabout
Mar 2013
#52
The only real problem with that scenario is this: Without Mulally, there was a very real chance
Ikonoklast
Mar 2013
#68
Hate to say it, but for $21 million Ford under him ignores design for style...
sfpcjock
Mar 2013
#84