The New York Times Reports, Crisis Altering Wall Street as Big Banks Lose Top Talent, stating, "With financial institutions facing federal limits brought on after the bailouts, veteran bankers are leaving to join start-ups and foreign companies."
The government has set salary limits on pay to top execs at the sinking ships in the roiling financial seas. The rats are responding by leaving the ships that they set on the path to the depths of Davey Jones' locker.
I say draft the bastards. If the US, in its history, drafted young men in a time of urgent need, why shouldn't we draft the people who caused the problems?
You may argue that these are the losers who caused the problems and that is probably true. So put them in minor roles, giving advice their superiors will use to decide what not to do.
Draft them so the greedy, sinking ship rats don't infest healthy banks and so they don't start up new, creative operations that rip off the consumers, tax payers and the government in new ways.
I'm serious about this. If we draft them, we can pay them the going rate for military recruits. Let them lose their mansions and Mercedes. Let Mitch McCollum and John Bohner defend these miscreants and protest the drafting of them. Dick Cheney will probably chime in.
While we're at it, add Larry Summers to the draftee list, along with Alan Greenspan and Treasury secretary Geithner and the CEOs of all the banks we've bailed out. Might as well put them all under the same emergency draft program. Why should they still be pulling megasalaries at all? They are all collossal failures.
Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
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He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
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first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)
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