"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second." John Steinbeck     9 Greedy CEOs Trying to Shred the Safety Net While Pigging Out on Corporate Welfare 1. Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and CEO, Goldman, Sachs & Co. 2. Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO, General Electric Company  . 3. Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co.  4. W. James McNerney, Jr., chairman, president and CEO, the Boeing Company  . 5. David Cote, chairman and CEO, Honeywell International Inc. 6. Glenn Britt, chairman and CEO, Time Warner Cable Inc. 7. Reid Hoffman, cofounder and executive chairman, LinkedIn Corporation  . 8. Richard Anderson, CEO, Delta Air Lines, Inc. 9. Dave Barger, president and CEO of JetBlue Airways Corp. Lynn Stuart Parramore, AlterNet