Bellemare says the same we hear all the time in all large corps: high salaries and bonuses are necessary to attract the best and brightest. He thinks we're clueless, and we cannot see that those collecting big bucks are actually the ones who sink companies in the long term and make sure the books look good in the short term so they can have their bonus. Not sure how these people's performance is good in 2016 when they had to beg for taxpayer money in the same year.

At the same time, those who actually do the work are eating on credit cards.