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Who do they think we are? When I read the newspapers or the international newssites on the internet, it always astonishes me that the CEO’s of the big companies are allowed to do such unacceptable actions and still come away with them. Just look at what happened earlier this week in the United States. Ford, Chrysler and General Motors are in trouble. One of them even considers to go for Chapter 11 in order to continue in business. So what do the CEO’s of these companies do? They fly to Washington in private jets in order to go and ask the American Government for money. Flying commercial is not good enough for these guys…

Take Fortis, the biggest Belgian bank who has been there forever, and who got into serious trouble at the end of September. Basically, they got help from the Belgian Government, who sold a big part to the Dutch and the rest of the bank to the French. Thousands and thousands of “little” Belgians, who put all their savings money into stock of this bank, have lost everything. The shares aren’t worth anything anymore, and the Fortis name will soon disappear. What happened? The ex-CEO of the Fortis bank took his resignation, for ruining the bank. BUT he got a nice little bonus of € 4 million (4.000.000 euros) when he said goodbye. € 4.000.000 for ruining his bank!

They have a new CEO right now. He’s signed a contract and will earn € 800.000 a year, + bonusses! While so many people are suffering to make it to the end of the month, they just carry on.

The difference with the guys in the clip below is that these guys normally go to jail, and the CEO’s are just getting away with it. Even a little bit of respect for the working man is too much asked for…

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