In these lean times, it looks like everyone is trying to make a dollar go a lot farther, which includes everyone from the front-line worker going to big super saver stores, to the elite that are heralded as our job creators.
I think about how little I probably really know about the whole world, as Winnemucca is big enough for me to call home, and like Will Rogers said way back in the 1930s;
"All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance."
Well, I listen to the radio too, so if there is an accelerating logarithm involved here, then that makes me at least twice as ignorant.
Regardless, I am wondering why, on this green and khaki earth, why no one has thought of this idea to save these struggling corporations some money so they can get by a little easier.
Many outfits deem the American worker way too expensive to hire, so they shut down operations here and grab a one-way ticket to China, India, Alabama or some other foreign country.
That's all fine and dandy, it is no one's business but their own.
What puzzles me is why they hold on to their American CEO's.
Is it not possible to hire a CEO from the country that the jobs went?
Those countries have lots of qualified business leaders, as the booming China economy will attest.
They know the local laws, culture, language, customs & are regarded over there as one of their own.
They won't even have to fly to the states as their work place is in their back yard.
To me, having a U.S. CEO running a corporation outside our border is like trying to put an Edsel transmission in a 2011 Ford Mustang, it just doesn't mate well.
One newspaper out there showed me just what the top 10 CEO's, just the tip of the iceberg, made last year.
After I totaled it up, I noticed another newspaper with some different numbers and different CEO's, so my number probably doesn't mean much.
Anyway, my number for the total of what 10 humans brought in for a year of hard work was what I think is 7 billion, 641 million dollars.
That number is not written in granite, as the other news companies have their own numbers and names too.
I'm hoping this idea pops into the next shareholder meeting and perhaps the savings from handing over the reins to some more economical foreign leaders could pass along some savings to the consumer.
Relieving these CEO's of their foreign responsibility may entice them to start up something fresh and even more innovative than what our friends across the pond have going.
In closing, "America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it." (again) Will Rogers July 1, 1931
This might be considered for politicians too, if a waiver for U.S. citizenship could be made.
Dale Taliaferro is a resident of Winnemucca.
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