1109 by Jeff Hess
Tom Peters writes:
The Washington Post reports that Representative Peter Roskam (R-IL), during last week’s hearings, asked automaker CEOs if they’d work for a dollar a year. Chrysler’s Nardelli said yes, GM’s Wagoner said “I don’t have a position on that today,” and Ford’s Alan Mulally, who made $21,700,000 last year, said, “I think I’m okay where I am.”
In the immortal words of Dave Barry, “I’m not making this up.”
Meanwhile CNN’s Kyung Lah reported that the CEO of JAL rides public transit to work, eats in the company cafeteria, and cut his salary below that of his pilots as a personal response to layoffs and forced early retirements that JAL felt necessary to make.
As usual Peters is all over the insanity of the Detroit bail out.
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0808 by Jeff Hess
A few months back I ripped the top off a whole can of worms when I made what I knew was a comment guaranteed to blow up in my face at Writes Like She Talks.
But I made it anyway. I thought it was important then. I think it is important now.
This morning I’m reading my new favorite blog — Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic — and pondering what he had to say about an Annie Leibovitz photo of our next First Lady in the 11 November issue of Paris Match.
We all want the best possible for the next generations. As regards are daughters, do we want them to be beautiful and brilliant or brilliant and beautiful?
Does the order matter? Does the issue?
Should I just crawl back into my hole and shut up?
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1128 by Jeff Hess
Roldo Bartimole writes:
The Medical Mart being pitched to us is an old idea, an old failed idea. Ask Baltimore.
Cleveland has been excited about the unique development of a Medical Mart here for some time. The movers and shakers have been pushing for the concept and Cuyahoga County Commissioners Tim Hagan and Jimmy Dimora have voted us a sales tax to fund it.
The medical mart has been the magic elixir that downtown boosters have been peddling to taxpayers as a potion to revive a sagging city.
It”s nothing of the sort.
How realistic is it?
Do you believe in the tooth fairy?
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