How Much Is Too Much

How Much Is Too Much? Poem arranged by Elton Camp I can’t say it’s true, but from what I hear A certain CEO made 137 million last year It’d take over 9,000 years at minimum wage Which makes some workers feel outrage And in the case of a worker at median pay It would take 3,489 years to do that way If that CEO works for a sixty hour week Then it’s $732 a minute that he’d seek It is almost $44,000 he makes in an hour Oh my goodness, he must feel such power Of course, most CEOs are not paid that well The median is under ten million I hear tell It’d take 244 years at the median pay To finally cash in that extravagant way That’s twelve times the president’s income If he wasn’t rich, it’d make him feel glum Surely that’s too much for anybody to get Why don’t the stockholders all have a fit A final note: In the case of the highest paid CEO, add the pay of Obama, Biden, the cabinet, the Supreme Court justices, all members of Congress and all fifty governors and he makes much more than all of them combined. In fact it is more than the top 600 leaders of the country. (All figures taken from a report by the Associated Press)