Can we talk CEO salaries?

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Ted King wrote: Compare executive salaries of American corporations in general with equally large corporations in Germany and Japan. In general they don't get paid nearly as much:

At one point In Germany, by law, no CEO, nobody at any one company could have been paid more than twenty times the salary of the lowest paid employee of the same company.
When we elected Obama, For Change,
when the Democrats were dumping ginormous money onto Wall Street,
I was hoping that our Socialists would attach the same strings to the largesse. It would set a nice precedent and an example to follow....