May 27, 2011
I’m writing because I'm angry at what's happened to the nation that once held the promise of fairness for people in the low and middle income strata. The America I loved once found it fair to pay CEOs no more than 15-20 times the average salary of his/her company's workers. As every American should know, including leaders like you, CEO compensation disparity has continually grown to obscene proportions over the past 30+ years while average middle incomes have shrunk.
It is time to end this class war before the workers rise up in just rebellion. It is time to not only control the greed of the oligarchy, but to return America's wage scale to that of the '50's or '60's. If you don't join in the effort in finding a solution to restore economic justice and fairness, you will be part of the problem which drives Americans to the barricades.
Bud Laurent,
Corvallis, Oregon
Bud Laurent
Corvallis, OR