College professors are, CEOs are not, and think-tankers …no comment

By Grace Nearing of Scriptoids

In his recent Town Hall column, Walter E. Williams, a Distinguished Scholar of the Heritage Foundation, wondered: "Are CEOs overpaid?" It's really only a rhetorical device intended to serve as a title. Don't expect any hard evidence or rigorous analysis. Or logic, for that matter. And can you guess what Williams' conclusion is going to be?

In the wake of the Enron and WorldCom corporate scandals, the purveyors of envy have found another opportunity to preach about what they consider the evils of high CEO salaries, retirements and bonuses.

As not only a purveyor of envy but a devoted connoisseur as well, I do not dispute this statement. And here's why:

After all, according to them, evil must be afoot when a corporate executive earns more in a week than the average worker earns in an entire year.

See, that's why. And "week" is too large a unit of measure to use here. Try minute, hour, or day.

Dishonest Enron and WorldCom CEOs are rare among corporate executives.

Indeed they are. The rarity is that they actually got caught.

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It's a dirty job, but someone needs to point out that 95% of
what passes for "public discussion" in the MSM is incoherent
babble.

I recall a column of his from long-ago where he maintained that wine was different from other kinds of alcohol, and therefore wine was harmless. In truth alcohol is alcohol is alcohol.

I'm sure that Williams is paid to say most of what he says.

All the other kinds of alcohol are very dangerous.

BEER QUOTES

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline
- it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear
weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
-Frank Zappa

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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to Keep your mouth shut.
-Ernest Hemmingway

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Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol
Has taken out of me.
--Winston Churchill

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He was a wise man who invented beer.
--Plato

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Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time.
--Catherine Zandonella


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A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to
Thank her.
--W.C. Fields


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Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
--Lady Astor to Winston Churchill

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.
--His reply

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Work is the curse of the drinking class.
--Oscar Wilde

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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
--Henny Youngman

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Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
--Benjamin Franklin

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If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet
It makes beer shoot out your nose.
--Deep Thought, Jack Handy

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Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind
Is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
--Dave Barry

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The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks
behind.
--Humphrey Bogart

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Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine.
--David Moulton

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People who drink light "beer" don't like the taste of beer; they
Just like to piss a lot.
--Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI

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Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
--Kaiser Welhelm

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I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.
--Homer Simpson

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Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and
oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital
ingredient in beer.
--Dave Barry

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I drink to make other people interesting.
--George Jean Nathan

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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time
with his fools.
--For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemmingway

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You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
--Dean Martin

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All right, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me - so
let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer.

--Homer Simpson

And last but not least we have Henry Miller:

Keep your libraries, keep your penal institutions, keep
your insane asylums ... give me beer.
You think man needs rule, he needs beer.
The world does not need morals, it needs beer.
It does not need your lectures and charity.
The souls of men have been fed indigestibles, but
the soul could make use of beer.

Henry Miller "Make beer for man"

to justify God's ways to Man."

A.E. Houseman

"Some men are born two drinks below par."

(The context in the film is that said two drinks give a main charater the courage to stand up to his domineering mother.)

But it's a good line, so thanks anyway.