A Hollywood star that performs in successive bombs quickly becomes a has-been simply by association. Others stars become box office draws if the movies they star in, have few bombs and the rest are blockbusters.
The banks took the bailouts, the executives gave themselves bonuses, the people whined, the Government threatened, but nothing was done. The banks had a profit, the money was wasted, the execs gave themselves another bonus, the Government threatened and whined, but still, nothing will be done.
It's only going to continue.Do the same people who have a problem with those bonuses for bank executives also oppose Hollywood pay?
Hollywood pay would be on the equivalent of of sports star pay. It would not be equal to bank execs. Hollywood pay as sports pay pays for s specific job to be done a specific way. A hollywood star can't BS a movie and make it look good while somehow is a hole a few years from now. A sports star can't BS the score board making it look good until the next year when the truth comes out. Bank execs thou make money off rigging the system legally to look like big profits now in there area while down the road 5 years those big profits are really holes quite often. It simply makes it look good in areas by moving money around and short term spike which rarely remains where it spiked to.
However I for one am not so much against high bank exec pay. if its a real deal and the work they did brought in say 50 million in cash to the bank I have no problem them getting a high commission of 1 million or whatever. I do have a problem when a CEO is getting huge pay packages while a company is failing or after the failures they caused finally come to be seen for what they are they are still contracted for big bucks... for failure. I am also against sports stars getting huge pay since many of the teams rely on local state/city funds for improvements like a new stadium or such.
Anyways in essence commission is fine when proven what you did it legit. However insane pay packages for screwing the lower tier workers or for failure is not OK.Do the same people who have a problem with those bonuses for bank executives also oppose Hollywood pay?Interesting parallel. The obvious answer is that the Hollywood people are not getting government money, at least not publicly.
I am totally opposed to the government getting involved in executive pay in private enterprise; however, I am also opposed to taxpayer money being used to prop up business. If a company took government funds to stay afloat, then they should expect some sort of government involvement in their financial decisions, including executive pay. The whole thing stinks to high heaven but your question leads to a larger issue..
The Hollywood folks, along with the rest of the liberal elite do not intend to live by the rules and regulations they put on the rest of us. Sean Penn embraces dictators who keep their people under Marshall law and in perpetual poverty, yet he makes millions of dollars per movie. The Moore idiot puts out movies bashing America and freedom, yet he has not moved to Cuba which has a system that is much more to his liking. something tells me that he doesn't live in a 1 bedroom apartment in a public high rise in LA, yet that is what he proposes all of us do, just as the citizens of his beloved soviet Union were forced to do. Robbins and Sarandon live a life of luxury but spend their time bashing the very principles and people who gave them the opportunity to achieve it. I don't think either one of them are doing much pro bono work. Sheen and ODonnell are just stupid, so you have to excuse them.
Al Gore wants government regulations requiring people to ride bikes to work and have rationed access to energy, yet he has multiple large houses and burns more resources than virtually 99.9999% of the planet. He flies around in private jets and has padded his personal fortune substantially by doing the very things he seeks to prevent the rest of us from doing. He asks people to bike to his propaganda speeches while he arrives in a limo that carried him from his private jet. John Kerry and his wife were asked in an interview about global warming why they had multiple SUVS, Houses, etc., and they said (with straight faces) that it wasn't about them. It was about everyone.
The problem is that the typical liberal or non thinking moderate does not see or hear reality. They hear things that sound good and march lock step off the cliff. The liberal elite has no intention of living by the rules the rest of us are forced to. The former leaders of the Soviet Union lived in luxury, complete with vacation homes while their citizens lived in cramped state housing and had to wait in line for basic commodities like toilet paper. The leaders of Cuba, China and other places loved by Hollywood live life's of splendor while they keep the masses under the thumb of oppression and poverty.
That is Obama and that is what the liberal elite wants. They want total power and control and they get it by hoodwinking the flock into going along with what they are told are policies to promote the common good. Al gore, john Kerry, and the Hollywood loons are all like the preacher who got caught doing crack with the prostitute, but they get a pass.Do the same people who have a problem with those bonuses for bank executives also oppose Hollywood pay?
Oh, for heaven's sake. The Republican party is becoming more schizophrenic with every passing day.
Those "bonuses" are being paid with TAXPAYER DOLLARS. Being paid to people who BANKRUPTED THE BUSINESSES.
The money in Hollywood is completely, totally, absolutely VOLUNTARY. Nobody is forcing any American to attend a movie.Do the same people who have a problem with those bonuses for bank executives also oppose Hollywood pay?hollywood pay does not come from my tax dollars. Neither does so called sport hero's. That dear heart is the bottom line.
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