Elizabeth Kolbert on the Auto Bailout

Stephen Elliott bio ↓  ·  December 12th, 2008  ·  filed under Other

Representative Peter Roskam, of Illinois, asked the three (CEOs) if, in return for federal assistance, they would be willing to reduce their salaries to a dollar a year.

“I don’t have a position on that today,” G.M.’s Rick Wagoner said.

“I think I’m O.K. where I am,” Ford’s Alan Mulally responded. (In 2007, Mulally’s compensation ran to nearly twenty-two million dollars.) …read more

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Stephen Elliott is the author of seven books, including the memoir The Adderall Diaries, the novel Happy Baby, and the erotica collection My Girlfriend Comes To The City and Beats Me Up. He is the editor of The Rumpus. Sometimes he twitters. More from this author →

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