Alex Rodriguez Quotes
Like I say, it's almost embarrassing to talk about. I don't know if Michael Jordan or Bill Gates or Alexander the Great or anyone is worth this type of money, but that's the market we're in today. That's what Mr. Hicks decided to pay me, and now it's time to pay him back and win a couple championships.
Chass, Murray. "Baseball; The $252 Million Man Hits Town." The New York Times, 13 Dec. 2000, p. D1.
That has been the average perception well into the 21st century.
The President, like most Americans, was outraged at the immoral, insensitive, and incompetent behavior of the financial industry in the Meltdown of 2008. However, the President learned how dependent the economy of the entire country was dependent on having solvent banks and how vulnerable the entire nation was to major failures of the investment and regular banks. So he was faced with very poor options. The government could have nationalized the banks, but that would produce an economic system which in the long run would not be very sound. Of the banks could be allowed to fail or risk failure in which case the entire population would suffer. Or he could lend money to the banks to stabilize and strengthen them while the bank executives were paying themselves huge bonuses even though they performed so poorly. He chose the latter and Warren was typical of criticism he received from many of his supporters. Even though the banks had broken the law and forged documents and committed perjury in tens of thousands of mortgage foreclosures, the President, as a practical matter, could not even prosecute the bank officials who were responsible because there were thousands of bank and other company officials who had committed the same crime. The guilty included almost every senior officer of the major banks, and jailing all these people was deemed impractical. So, to recover the economy, justice and fairness suffered.
In the Meltdown of 2008, the federal government, in order to prevent a major depression, bailed out the banks and the wealthy bankers whose speculations and greed has caused the investments of other people’s money. There was almost no Federal help for the average middle and lower class American who had not caused the meltdown but had been damaged by it. When the bankers took the bailout money and paid themselves and others huge bonuses, even though the companies had lost billions of dollars under their stewardship. Many people were outraged and raised all kinds of public protests that they were being paid bonuses with taxpayer money. The bankers and conservative politicians accused the protesters of being un-American because they were complaining about other Americans success. The President explained the situation.
Alexander Enmanuel Rodriguez, nicknamed "A-Rod," is an American former professional baseball shortstop and third baseman, businessman and philanthropist. Rodriguez played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners (1994–2000), Texas Rangers (2001–2003), and New York Yankees (2004–2016). Rodriguez is the chairman and CEO of A-Rod Corp as well as the chairman of Presidente beer.
