about Clay Bennett...
The son of a career army officer, Bennett led a nomadic life, attending ten different schools before graduating in 1980 from the University of North Alabama with degrees in Art and History. After brief stints as a staff artist at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Fayetteville (NC) Times, he went on to serve as the editorial cartoonist for the St. Petersburg Times (1981-1994) and The Christian Science Monitor (1997-2007), before joining the staff of the ...
Clay, the problem is not public relations,but rather financial corruption in a system that divertes investment into sheer short term speculation;that allows banks to front run the public as well as their own customers;that permits leverage so great that a miscalculation can wreck the nations economy;that requires socialization of losses when they err;that sucks wealth from the productive economy into the hands of a few.
It's destroying America and it has to stop. Are you listening President Obama and Congress.
Well, if this one actually makes it on today, I'll have to differ with you nucanuck.
It should have read, "Public Perception for Dummies."
I find it amazing, after everything that has happened the past year or so, 'those in power' still have the chutzpah to believe they are 'above it all'.
We are, if nothing else, the most gullible people on Earth.
Thank you for your time and attention, I hope, Woody
There is way too much greed across the spectrum and around the world. Manipulators and scammers are everywhere. Big Government's Face should be on Bennett's book cover also.
(Now that would illustrate the whole story)
Good cartoon, Clay. It does seem to show an incredible tone-deafness to offer exorbitant bonuses to the brokers who brought us so near financial collapse.
It doesn't really matter if these executives work for firms that were directly bailed-out, or not. The stability that the American taxpayers provided the financial markets was a benefit to them all.
Not a word about the truly obscene bonuses paid the FannieMae and FreddieMac government executives for their wonderful leadership before, during and after the essential collapse of those programs.
Oh, that's right...this one is about private companies not government folks. Never mind.
Let us not forget, AIG had something like 200,000 hardworking employees...and 15 highly paid executives; executives who perhaps earned less than a Senator -- when all income sources, health benefits, retirement bennies, lobbyist contributions, free junkets, etc are counted. Yet the Senators who caused the housing collapse are untouched by the no-longer-so-mainstream-or-relevant press.
Good points Rolando. In fact, the heads of Fannie & Freddie are also not subject to the all-powerful Pay Czar's arbitrary compensation adjustments, if you can call a 90% pay cut a mere adjustment. And Czar Feinberg says he's just getting started.
They all should be held accountable. Go Vols!
I second rolando and canaryinthecoalmine. It's funny how government officials can point the finger of blame without accountability for their own doing.
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