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The difference that continues to elude you is that the money to pay those executives comes from the profit of actually making/selling a product in the private sector.
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Uh, except these companies aren’t turning a profit. They are losing hundreds of billions of dollars. And the executives are still raking in multi-million dollar salaries courtesy of tax-payer funded bailouts.
Privatize profits and socialize risk. Republican socialism at its finest!