As we watch the captains of our financial industry who drove the economic bus we were all riding on into the deepest ditch we've seen since the stock market crash of 1929 taking their multi-million dollar bonuses, I can't help wondering what ever happened to dollar-a-year men. In times of national strife - specifically during the Great Depression and the First and Second World Wars, wealthy captains of industry donated their talents to the government in exchange a salary of a dollar a year.
They donated their talents to the common good out of a sense of patriotic duty.
I hope our captains of the financial industry enjoy their bonuses.
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The creator of whole foods (a grocery line) is a dollar a year man
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