Re: Holy Overpaid Bureaucrats Batman

Bell just can't stay out of the news these days: Lawsuit against Bell suggests voter fraud in 2009 election and California City That Outsourced Everyone Is Snared by Pay Scandal in Bell

Re: Holy Overpaid Bureaucrats Batman

Just read that some of these bureaucrats in Bell have resigned. http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/politics/bell-salaries-resignations/ J - The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. I think myself that we have mor

RE: Holy Overpaid Bureaucrats Batman

ritic...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 3:19 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Holy Overpaid Bureaucrats Batman And on a similar note: The Art of the Ann Arbor City Budget<http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/13219> While this doesn't appear to be straight up robbery like

Re: Holy Overpaid Bureaucrats Batman

And on a similar note: The Art of the Ann Arbor City Budget While this doesn't appear to be straight up robbery like Bell CA, it sure doesn't look good. J - The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to w

RE: Holy Overpaid Bureaucrats Batman

: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 3:39 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Holy Overpaid Bureaucrats Batman Nobody gets rich in California on those salaries. Just barely getting by out here required a six figure salary. On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Sisk, Kris wrote: > Unfortunately what's right oft

Re: Holy Overpaid Bureaucrats Batman

"That meaningless aside aside, why not extend that idea (stoning overpaid officials) ought to be extended to the corporate world as well. I figure within a week we'd lose about a quarter of the CEO's and most of the Goldman-Sachs people." Personally, there's a lot of employees and former employee

Re: Holy Overpaid Bureaucrats Batman

You forget that the corporations are the darlings of the conservatives and ripping people off is only wrong if the government is doing it. On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > That meaningless aside aside, why not extend that idea (stoning > overpaid officials) ought to be e

Re: Holy Overpaid Bureaucrats Batman

Nobody gets rich in California on those salaries. Just barely getting by out here required a six figure salary. On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Sisk, Kris wrote: > Unfortunately what's right often isn't legal and what's legal often > isn't right. There should be something that can be done ab

Re: Holy Overpaid Bureaucrats Batman

Given the possibly successful effort to legalize marijuana then its entirely possible that some officials will be stoned. Just not the way you want. That meaningless aside aside, why not extend that idea (stoning overpaid officials) ought to be extended to the corporate world as well. I figure wi

Re: Holy Overpaid Bureaucrats Batman

While those knowingly receiving the exorbitant salaries should be stoned, those who elected the council which hired the city officials and over-inflated prices are culpable as well. I'll let George Jean Nathan sum it up: "Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote." J - The d

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It's the way it's always been. It's the way it always will be. On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Sisk, Kris wrote: > > "The salaries do not appear to violate any laws, said Dave Demerjian, > head of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Public Integrity > Division." > > Unfortunately what's

RE: Holy Overpaid Bureaucrats Batman

"The salaries do not appear to violate any laws, said Dave Demerjian, head of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Public Integrity Division." Unfortunately what's right often isn't legal and what's legal often isn't right. There should be something that can be done about that though. Those

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Too bad that the practice of putting people in stocks in the town square isn't still in use. Maybe the citizens of this town can bring it back for this one occasion. On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > That is really messed up. Here is the original LA Times article on it:

Re: Holy Overpaid Bureaucrats Batman

That is really messed up. Here is the original LA Times article on it: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bell-salary-20100715,0,1323511,print.story Fascinating thing, to me, is that the officials defend the salaries. Some people really have no shame. Judah On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:56 A