BY JIM HIGHTOWER Sometimes it pays just to go away. You could ask Jim Skinner about that. He was CEO of the hamburger behemoth, McDonald’s, pulling down a hefty $8.8 million in pay. Last year, though, Skinner retired, and, rather than getting a gold watch, he was given a load of gold – so large that even a Brink’s armored truck would have been too small to haul it all away. His salary of $753,000 […]

McDonald’s: Low-Paid Workers, High-Flying Execs
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