Al Gore, Man of the People, Gets Paid Over $1 Million a Day to Sit on Apple’s Board,

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Al Gore, Man of the People, Gets Paid Over $1 Million a Day to Sit on Apple’s Board, $125,000 per hour


If you want a poster child for corporate greed, you can look no further than Al Gore. After he failed to get enough votes to win Florida, and therefore the Presidential election in 2000, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs added him to the list of Yes Men on Apple’s board of directors.

A report out today says Al Gore cashed out about half of his Apple stock options in January to the tune of $30 million and has at least $15 million more. But that was his bonuses, that didn’t include his base pay. According to Reuters, during the height of the 2008 recession, Al Gore ‘only’ made $633,000 per year, or $127,000 per board meeting, since the board only met fives times that year. — However according to SEC filings, by 2010, his yearly compensation was back up to $1.3 million per year.

Looking at the numbers, Gore has made about $1,000,000 a year for the last 10 years to sit on a board that was famously paid to agree with Steve Jobs. And then he got $45 million in stock options as a bonus for a total of about $55 million. Considering the board meets about 5 times years, that’s just over $1,000,000 per day or $125,000 per hour.

So what has Gore done to earn that money? Gore’s most famous accomplishment was to lead the board’s investigating committee, which “cleared CEO Steve Jobs and current management of wrongdoing” in a stock option backdating scandal which Apple later admitted Jobs knew about.

When you’re Al Gore, Greed is good.
 
Al Gore is a moron. I have never liked the man but be honest - If you could sit on the board of apple for a million a year wouldn't you do it. Of course I don't know anything about the "letting Steve Jobs off of wrongdoing." but just in general. If you had the chance to do it, wouldn't you?
 
So when Jamie Dimon tanks his company and George Bush bails him and destroys the economy and bails Dimon out that's ok. But when Al Gore makes money that's wrong?

More typical right wing hypocrisy in action.
 
One of the signs of a conservative is that they can't grasp the difference between "disliking rich people" and "disliking asshole rich people." Steve Jobs died beloved and was rich. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates will go the same way. Meanwhile, every Wal-Mart heir could drop dead and no one would mourn, because they get their money by being assholes and then do asshole things with their money. If you can't grasp this distinction, you should probably go back to Kindergarten, to learn more about sharing and playing nice.
 
One of the signs of a conservative is that they can't grasp the difference between "disliking rich people" and "disliking asshole rich people." Steve Jobs died beloved and was rich. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates will go the same way. Meanwhile, every Wal-Mart heir could drop dead and no one would mourn, because they get their money by being assholes and then do asshole things with their money. If you can't grasp this distinction, you should probably go back to Kindergarten, to learn more about sharing and playing nice.

JackAss

Hi Jack
 
I though liberalism was about sharing the wealth?

Al, when do I get that check from you? Al? Al?
 
The above steaming pile of horse shit is the hallmark of the goofy liberal.

The above racist post was brought to by vette and busy body. Repeating what they sort of think they heard and copy and pasting from brietbart. How's that racism going for you guys?
 
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