Raising the pay of chief executive officers in bad economic times should be forbidden.

I believe that the investors should get more money instead. They are way cooler than CEOs and way richer to begin with, which must mean that they can handle money really well, otherwise they wouldn't still be so rich. Plus, there's always the saying that you need money to make money, and I think that, taking that to heart, encouraging investors to invest during tough times would be the perfect fix to all this debt. Therefore, the government should pour all of its resources into encouraging investors to spend by giving them more money and resources so that they can fund businesses. Also, if normal workers didn't get complimentary insurance, businesses would save a lot more money that they could use to invest elsewhere and become much larger, resulting in successful and happy investors. I think the government should give more decision making power to investors and let them decide what to do with all of the money so that they can become rich and help the world. CEOs on the other hand should have a large pay to begin with, especially with budget cutting of various unnecessary appendages of the company. In the long run, the super rich investors will drive the economy back into action in no time, while CEOs don't make enough money to sponsor other businesses privately to begin with. The other option would be to raise the pay of middle class workers, but then they would gain more power until equilibrium is reached, and that would lead to communism, "and we all know communism leads to killer aliens and the end of humanity and fox news." [edited by Andrew Fedorov].