Last year John Bertko dumped a net of 8,300 shares of Humana stock. Since November 2006 Bruce Goodman has dumped a net of 31,251 shares of Humana stock.

Merely stating the net sales of shares does not give the scale of greed we are dealing with. If you go through the trades of Humana’s Board of Directors you see parasites exercising options for little or nothing and selling at huge gains. Someone needs to ask Yarmuth and the rest of the Kentucky delegation, if Humana does not believe in it’s business model, why should the rest of us?

In Its Annual Meeting, Exxon Crushes Shareholder Upsurge: Tillerson Remains Chairman and CEO, Quieting Demands for Alt–Energy Venture

Via Suburban Guerrilla, Health plans say they’ll risk losing members to protect profit margins:

United CEO Stephen Hemsley told investors: “We continue to protect our margins. … We are committed to sustaining a quality business without taking shortsighted pricing positions.”

“We will not sacrifice profitability for membership,” WellPoint President and CEO Angela Braly told analysts during a conference call.

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On the outskirts of D.C., Georgetown hosted a company of your corporate overlords yesterday, there for the occasion of attempted feast on the corpse of public oversight. Yes, you were there. You are the enemy in the view of much of the profit-directed financial realm.

Refreshingly, there is an element of the very, very wealthy who look upon the public more as a partner than an enemy, and they were represented as well, in the following by Warren Buffett.