In 2005, an average Chief Executive Officer (CEO) was paid 821 times
as much as a minimum wage earner, who earns just $5.15 per hour. An
average CEO earns more before lunchtime on the very first day of work
in the year than a minimum wage worker earns all year.

You forgot to mention that he probably works six or seven days a week, and
60-100 hours. He comes in if he's sick. He doesn't take paid holidays. He
travels all night to be there for a meeting in another city in the morning.
Then he hops on a jet, flies home, gets a couple of hours sleep, and is
there at 0630 to be ready for the 0800 meeting. He does things a "minimum
wage worker" would not consider doing, nor be required to do under current
liberal Democrat worker rights laws. He also stands to be terminated at
will, at the whim of management, or at the change of officials.

If he wants to work that hard, I'm all for giving him the dough. It's dough
that I'm not smart enough to make happen, or too lazy to work that hard for.

Just give me forty and the door, is what I say. I have owned my own
businesses, and made less than the help. And worried a lot more.

And what is keeping these minimum wage workers from getting education,
training, and experience and knocking this King of the Hill off his throne?

Answer: nothing but their own stupidity, lack of motivation, lack of
ambition, and laziness.

Steve