Re: [MBZ] This Just Chaps My Ass

2006-04-17 Thread Jeff Zedic
Sunil, Remember, the real name for trickle down economics is "piss on the poor"... Ahhh, I miss my eighties jokes! Jeff Zedic Toronto 87 300TD

Re: [MBZ] This Just Chaps My Ass

2006-04-17 Thread Sunil Hari
I'm not big into wealth redistribution. I'm also a proponent of $5/gallon gasoline. $400 million might be excessive, but he can't take it with him and no amount of money will actually fill the gaping hole in his soul. So he'll donate it to charitable causes and society gets better. No, I don't

Re: [MBZ] This Just Chaps My Ass

2006-04-17 Thread Rich Thomas
PROFIT MARGARINE, the grease of commerce! --R Mitch Haley wrote: "Kaleb C. Striplin" wrote: Now lets all learn the difference between PROFIT and PROFIT MARGINE. Let's say your sales are 100 billion, and your margin is 2%. Now let's say that your product is a commodity, and the mark

Re: [MBZ] This Just Chaps My Ass

2006-04-17 Thread Curt Raymond
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] This Just Chaps My Ass To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Profits of $37 billion? He deserves his $400 million, i'm not kidding.

Re: [MBZ] This Just Chaps My Ass

2006-04-16 Thread Marshall Booth
Mitch Haley wrote: "Kaleb C. Striplin" wrote: Now lets all learn the difference between PROFIT and PROFIT MARGINE. Let's say your sales are 100 billion, and your margin is 2%. Now let's say that your product is a commodity, and the market price doubles through no fault of your own. If your c

Re: [MBZ] This Just Chaps My Ass

2006-04-16 Thread Mitch Haley
"Kaleb C. Striplin" wrote: > > Now lets all learn the difference between PROFIT and PROFIT MARGINE. Let's say your sales are 100 billion, and your margin is 2%. Now let's say that your product is a commodity, and the market price doubles through no fault of your own. If your cost structure stays

Re: [MBZ] This Just Chaps My Ass

2006-04-16 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
Now lets all learn the difference between PROFIT and PROFIT MARGINE. Sunil Hari wrote: Hey, he deserves it. ExxonMobil made the largest corporate profit ever, and he played some role in that. XOM shareholders love him, and if you don't like it buy some stock in them and share in the spoils.

Re: [MBZ] This Just Chaps My Ass

2006-04-16 Thread Mitch Haley
Sunil Hari wrote: > > Hey, he deserves it. ExxonMobil made the largest corporate profit ever, and > he played some role in that. XOM shareholders love him, and if you don't > like it buy some stock in them and share in the spoils. If I don't like seeing the company's shareholders raped to the t

Re: [MBZ] This Just Chaps My Ass

2006-04-15 Thread Rick Knoble
Executive compensation is just out of control. If they run the company into the ground, they get tens of millions of dollars. If they do an even halfway competant job they get hundreds of millions. That was my point. A monkey could've been at the helm of Exxon/Mobil and as long as he did not

Re: [MBZ] This Just Chaps My Ass

2006-04-15 Thread Sunil Hari
Profits of $37 billion? He deserves his $400 million, i'm not kidding. On 4/14/06, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sunil Hari wrote: > > Hey, he deserves it. ExxonMobil made the largest corporate profit ever, > and > > he played some role in that. > > He was in the right place at t

Re: [MBZ] This Just Chaps My Ass

2006-04-15 Thread David Brodbeck
Sunil Hari wrote: > Hey, he deserves it. ExxonMobil made the largest corporate profit ever, and > he played some role in that. He was in the right place at the right time -- oil prices went sky-high and ExxonMobil went along for the ride. Executive compensation is just out of control. If they r

[MBZ] This Just Chaps My Ass

2006-04-14 Thread Rick Knoble
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