Reply #31: Gen. Smedley Butler thought it was a good idea

[RainDog]

and said so when he noted that he made the Philippines safe for chaquita banana to exploit.

I think that our nation should institute a policy in which a CEO may not be compensated more than, say, a 40:1 ratio of the lowest paid worker.

That would bring jobs back here b/c what's the use of employing slave labor overseas if the CEO has to earn only 40x more than someone paid a dollar a day?

Of course, I don't expect our govt to propose or enact anything like this because fascism in the new model for America, unless we change our campaign finance laws, our views about health care as a human right, or our irrational belief that capital still maintains the same divine right we once accorded to kings in the dark ages.