Pete Bungum's BLOG - Day 26,121 in my journey through life.

Today is Saturday, May 26, 2012 - a cool breezy day - Hey, we actually got some rain last night - about half an inch. Not enough but it is better than none. I'm grateful for another day of "I'm HIV."
This morning I did yoga, the exercise ball and walked 45 minutes = 2.5 miles for a May total of 61.5 miles. My weight stayed at 162.0 pounds.

MY THOUGHTS TODAY have to do with something that is very upestting to me.

In the morning paper there was a column labeled   - MONEY: Average CEO earns $9.6 millioa a year.
The AP article said it's source was EQUILAR, an executive research firm. CEO pay was up more than 6% from the previous year and is the second year in a row of increases.

HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE OTHERS TO MAKE THAT MUCH?  A minimum wage worker would have to work 636 years to make that much. A person making the national average salary would have to work 244 years to make the median CEO salary.

CEO PAY BY THE HOUR WOULD BE: If you assume the CEO works a 60-hour week, the pay comes to $3,072.84 per hour, or $51.21 per minute.

THE AVERAGE JOE: The median pay for U.S. workers was about $39,300 past year. That was up 1% from the year before, not enough to keep pace with inflation.

WHICH COMPANIES PAY CEOs THE MOST AND LEAST?  CEOs running health care companies made the most ($10.8 million). Those running utilities made the least ($7 million). I find that quite interesting, no wonder health care CEOs are fighting Obamacare - these poor fellows  might lose a million or two.

And now the conservatives are trying to bust all the unions in this country. The unions are what brought America a "middle class." I guess the millionaires and billionaires want everybody to get back to a minimum wage with no health insurance or pensions. Then they can add many more millions to their annual salary. What a future America has if the the conservatives take over in November. No wonder we are seeing "occupiers" on Wall Street and other cities - we'll be seeing more if they get their way in the years ahead.