Kia ora Richie McCaw,
Kei te pehea koe e te rangatira? Ko te tumanako e kaha
nei tou whakataa kia ora mai ano tou waewae, heoi ano.
Hey Capt McCaw, hope you are well and that your
recovery is swift.
Seeing you had a wee bit of spare time on your hands,
I thought you may have the time to check out what our team sponsors are up to.
Especially the CEO of AIG Mr Robert Benmosche. Now Mr
Benmosche is kinda like you Richie, as he has a proud ‘playing’ record to match
your own.
According to Forbes Robert’s
stats read like this:
Mr. Benmosche
has been AIG's President and Chief Executive Officer since August 2009.
Previously, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MetLife, Inc.
from September 1998 to February 2006 (Chairman until April 2006). He served as
President of MetLife, Inc. from September 1999 to June 2004, President and
Chief Operating Officer from November 1997 to June 1998, and Executive Vice
President from September 1995 to October 1997. He served as an Executive Vice
President of PaineWebber Group Incorporated from 1989 to 1995. Mr. Benmosche is
currently a director of Credit Suisse Group AG, where he is a member of the
Compensation Committee.
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| AIG CEO Robert Benmosche. |
According to Forbes
Benmosche’s base salary for the year 2011
was $3,000,000 with total renumeration for the year coming in at $13,984,181. I
know Richie, that’s more than what even Sonny Bill will earn when he returns to
netball next season.
Anyway, im not
writing to leyt you know what Rob earns, but to point out what our teams
sponsor is saying in the media. Now we all love the underdog story aye? So
Anyway Richie, Rob, thinks that him and his team mates have been the underdogs
of late, and let rip to the media to vent his frustration.
Now Rob and his
fellow corporate mates are probably not the underdogs we naturally think of.
What with wealth comes the resources to overcome most obsticles and challenges,
right? Well Rob thinks not. He is frustrated at the widespread crticism of
corporate and CEO bonuses. He believes that it is not fair to ‘vilifiy’ him for
being loaded.
So in the Wall
Street Journal (that bastion of the right and probably not by the Rugby News
Richie) Robert likened the outrage as such
was intended
to stir public anger, to get everybody out there with their pitchforks and
their hangman nooses, and all that—sort of like what we did in the Deep South
[decades ago]. And I think it was just as bad and just as wrong
Now Richie, when
we lost the world cup in 2004 did you liken it to being lynched by the KKK? No
you didn’t. So why would Rob? The Wall Street Journal titled the article “At AIG Benmosche steers a steady course”, which
doesn’t covey any of the rhetoric that Rob vented in the article. Ezra Klein
(who is a blogger Richie, Bloggings the new Rugby League for frustrated
writers) writes that:
I
was in an off-the-record meeting with top Wall Street folks where similar
comparisons to Nazi Germany were tossed around. It really was a meme on Wall
Street that the singling out of the wealthy for criticism — and, more to the
point, taxation — had a direct historical precedent in Nazi Germany, where the
Jews were first demonized, then taxed, and then, well, you know. The sense was
that the rich in general, and Wall Street in particular, weren’t just being criticized,
but that they were being turned into a dangerously despised minority.
That’s
the context of Benmosche’s comment. I would bet he’s made the same point a
number of times in private rooms to appreciative nods. When you say and hear
that kind of thing often enough, however, you forget how insane and offensive
it is — and then you say it to the Wall Street Journal.
Simply put Richie, its like comparing losing the Bledisloe to being
gassed in the chambers of Auschwitz. I know Richie, Robs a dick aye. So Richie if he ever gets the chance to meet the team at training one day, use him as the tackle bag. As he is a douche bag already.
Anyway Richie wont keep you, know you got a game to watch on saturday. Get fit soon, give Dan a squeeze for us too.
Chur bro.
Aue!3.
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| Richie and Dan. |
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