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And she missed 4Q earnings estimates. Never send a woman to do a man's job.
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Like you me and everyone isn't making choices that push climate change, for example, flying around the world, having dogs, building airplanes, or buying iphones and laptops and boots and shirts and toaster ovens made in china from coal fired power.
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I don't know how long Akerson was CEO, but if they're quoting his final salary, it's slightly apples-to-oranges to compare it to Barra's opening salary. And as @ 1 points out, she would have known what Akerson was making. Executive salaries are always public knowledge.

As far as cars destroying the globe's climate and otherwise being a Very Bad Thing, well, using the issue of corporate compensation as a springboard for that conversation is a non sequitur. But we can't help the things that make our brains go off on tangents with which we're obsessed.
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@ 3, "having dogs" ?
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@5
Having as in owning, upkeeping, feeding I hear their food has a very large carbon footprint. dogs, cars, planes, children, flying to bali for the resorts or flying for ecotourism, buying dog toys made in china, building the airplanes that emit things that really hurt the planet, it's a rare person who isn't feeding climate change. you can ride your bike to work then if you buy a spanking new condo in the rainier valley the construction carbon load is immense; if you have a dog then fly to mexico for the yoga retreat really, you may not be much purer environmentally than some slob in bothell taking a bus to work in Bellevue and teaching soccer on the weekend at Marymoor who drives a car 9,000 miles a year.
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@ 6, so in other words, because one consumes consumer items for dogs, one is contributing to climate change.

I can see that. Seems like it can't be that great of an addition, however. I mean, what portion of our imports from China consists of doggie toys? (Dog food, OTOH, especially as most of it comes from factory farmed meat and produce, and is now known to come from overseas factories, I can see contributing significantly.)

Food for thought. Thank you.
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Female psychopaths deserve to paid equivalently to their male counterparts.
(see #1 on the list)
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2013/01/02/…
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"Having as in owning, upkeeping, feeding I hear their food has a very large carbon footprint. dogs, cars, planes, children, flying to bali for the resorts or flying for ecotourism, buying dog toys made in china, building the airplanes that emit things that really hurt the planet, it's a rare person who isn't feeding climate change. you can ride your bike to work then if you buy a spanking new condo in the rainier valley the construction carbon load is immense; if you have a dog then fly to mexico for the yoga retreat really, you may not be much purer environmentally than some slob in bothell taking a bus to work in Bellevue and teaching soccer on the weekend at Marymoor who drives a car 9,000 miles a year."

Apparently living in caves is the only solution you've found then.
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Good Morning Charles,
Nah, I don't believe she's the "enemy". She knew the salary buzz beforehand. And, she's getting well compensated anyway. On the other hand, she might be CEO of a dying industry, automobile manufacturing but an "enemy", no.

As far as Think Progress & Fox Business "uniting". Well, to me that's good. It does show common ground. You and are, by & large are on opposite ends of the political spectrum yet we agree on not a few issues. I find it far more constructive to have civil dialogue of opposing viewpoints than to preach to the choir or even pontificate one's opinion is "unequivocally right". I believe the issue is good. Let those two news sources agree on something. That's cool.
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@6 -- you're welcome.
@10- ah, my point seems to elude you. It's this. Dogs apparently generate a huge carbon load because basically they can't be vegetarian or something. Many things we ALL do generate huge carbon loads. By not driving a car if you do all these other things like buy half the crap you buy from china, like most of us, or fly once or twice a year, or work at boeing, or have two kids and one dog....well, we're all causing climate change.

That we don't know immediately the carbon load of each activity means each of us can't lower our carbon load to what is required. Meanwhile, lots of people take a holier than thou attitude noting they don't drive, or they hate cards, or they strangely hate a woman heading GM as if this somehow makes them okay on climate change and privileged to lecture the rest of us. but if said person flies to London, has a dog, two kids, and their wife works at boeing it really doesn't matter that they take the bus there and take light rail to the stranger office etc. IOW my point is we are all living in a glass house. So if you REALLY want climate change to come under control, it's best to admit that then change our conduct and move forward instead of taking easy pot shots against the head of GM. it's easy to be a seattle smug moralist sitting in SE seattle taking light rail. change isn't going to happen with smug lectures though. one part of change is we each KNOW our annual carbon load budget and make choices to get under it. hitting on cars is a cheap shot of the stone throwin sort if you can see what I mean. I want us to recognize that technology and dogs and children and airplanes bring us great things. that's why we use them. ditto iphones made in china. ditto this laptop on which I type to send in this comment. Don't want to live in a cave. But also do want real change on climate change and every year I see lots of cheap shots and easy moralizing but there's one handy list of each common activity that tells you and me how and what to change. seriously I read something that owning a dog equate to like 4,000 miles driving so being carless but having two dogs means you're the same as someone with a car with no dogs. See what I mean? climate change is real, so is not wanting to live in caves more info and transparency is the first step. along with global national and personal carbon budgets. frankly, I am not interested in giving up hiking on weekends with car trips if in the end of the story nothing changes anyway because other people fly to mexico and bali and san Francisco all in one year like someone I know who rides a bike to work.
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let asia assemble your phone. let germany brew your beer. we make your cars. /bobdylan inc.
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She's a car enthusiast and a GM lifer. Worked it from the ground up, like her father. She's not in it for the money.

I think the fact that she took that salary speaks volumes to her character.
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The problem with these sorts of stories is that they lack context. How common is it for male CEOs to make less than their predecessor? In addition companies are often willing to pay more to outside executives than executives promo
ted from within, regardless of gender.

Not all quarterbacks, make the same amount of money (note Reggie Williams makes only $650K), in fact there are vast differences based on experience and performance.

So if she has a good run let's see what she's making in two or three years.
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I think it's less that she's underpaid and more that her predecessor was overpaid. As a rule I can't really feel bad about CEO pay going down. She's making $4 million a year. That's pretty good compared to most everyone else in the world. Now if the company becomes more successful under her watch then she should get a raise.
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She's not getting paid like a man...at a fully privatized profit making business.

She's getting paid like a very high level government bureaucrat who is running a quasi-industrial organization that will always be bailed out by taxpayer subsidies should it fail.

That just takes less brainpower. Man or woman.

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