Enfin, ils sont augmentés

Le système étant caricature de tout, c’est-à-dire d’abord de lui-même, tout est donc possible. La perception “faith-based” marchant à fond, il est devenu impossible pour le système de mesurer sa propre indignité, son indécence et, au bout du compte, son ridicule en exposant en pleine lumière la grossièreté de ses pratiques.

Pour ce cas, il s’agit des traitements des dirigeants (CEO) des entreprises de défense américaines (du complexe militaro-industriel), qui ont augmenté d’une façon exponentielle depuis le 11 septembre 2001. Defense News observe, sobrement il faut en convenir, dans un article consacré à la question, le 30 août, que « Chief executives at top U.S. defense contractors have received a 200 percent pay hike since 2001 compared to a 7 percent raise for other CEOs at large companies, a study showed on Tuesday. »

Defense News détaille un rapport de l’institut libéral Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), qu’on peut aller consulter sur le site même de l’IPS. L’IPS précise :

« The ratio of average CEO pay (now $11.8 million) to worker pay (now $27,460) spiked up from 301-to-1 in 2003 to 431-to-1 in 2004. If the minimum wage had risen as fast as CEO pay since 1990, the lowest paid workers in the US would be earning $23.03 an hour today, not $5.15 an hour.

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» At the 34 publicly traded US corporations among the 2004 top 100 defense contractors with 10% or more of their revenues from defense contracts – companies such as United Technologies, Textron, and General Dynamics – average CEO pay increased 200% from 2001 to 2004, versus 7% for all CEOs.

» For example, David H. Brooks, CEO of bulletproof vest maker DHB Industries, earned $70 million in 2004, 13,349% more than his 2001 compensation of $525,000. Brooks also sold company stock worth about $186 million last year, spooking investors who drove DHB’s share price from more than $22 to as low as $6.50. In May 2005, the US Marines recalled more than 5,000 DHB armored vests after questions were raised about their effectiveness. By that time, Brooks had pocketed over $250 million in war windfalls.

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» Tax dodgers: 46 large companies paid no federal income tax in 2003, despite collectively earning $30 billion in profits. Some of the savings wound up in the pockets of their CEOs, who made $12.6 million in average pay in 2004. »

Et ainsi de suite...

Mis en ligne le 3 septembre 2005 à 12H55