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POPSNeed a Job? $17,000 an Hour. No Success Required. John Kenneth Galbraith, the great economist, once explained: “The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.”
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POPSJPMorgan Buys WaMu Deposits; Regulators Seize Thrift 
David Bonderman's TPG Inc., which led a $7 billion capital infusion for WaMu earlier this year, lost most of its initial $2 billion investment. TPG, based in Forth Worth, Texas, said in a statement yesterday it was ``dissatisfied with the loss'' and that the WaMu investment was a ``small part of assets.'' New York-based JPMorgan, which separately announced plans to raise $8 billion by selling common stock, had its outlook lowered to negative by Moody's Investors Service. Moody's left its Aa2 rating on JPMorgan unchanged. JPMorgan won't acquire WaMu's liabilities, including claims by shareholders and subordinated and senior debt holders, the FDIC said. JPMorgan paid $10 a share for Bear Stearns in March as the New York-based securities firm teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. ``Having worked with Kerry Killinger for 10 years, I still absolutely cannot fathom where or why he went wrong, and what caused him to lead the company into taking the kinds of risks that they did.''
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POPSShame. Johnny Gurkha Peter Mendelson had a visa for his bum bandit toy boy within days of deciding he wanted the boy. Thousand of our sternest allies are being denied access to the safety and security that their sacrifices have created. What's wrong with the electorate? Who would you rather have as an ally, the politician who is an habitual liar and gets everything his office demands; or the simple soldier who would die to keep you safe? I know which one you deserve, and while that parasite sucks out enormous expense claims and unearned salary, we loose the respect of the very men we ought to be giving everything to.
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POPSThe Value of Money George Washington was paid a salary of $25,000 a year from 1789 to 1797 as the first president of the United States. The current salary of the president has recently been doubled to $400,000, to go with a $50,000 expense account, a generous pension and several other benefits. Has the remuneration improved? Making a comparison using the CPI for 1790 shows that $25,000 corresponds to over $585,000 today, so the recent raise means current presidents have an equal command over consumer goods as the Father of the Country. When comparing Washington's salary to an unskilled worker, or the measure of average income, GDP per capita, then the comparable numbers are $11 and $24 million. Granted that would not put him in the ranks of the top 25 executives today that make over $200 million. It would, however, be many times more than any elected official in this country is paid today.
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POPSDo corrupt workers infest Blackpool council? If you work for the deprived of Blackpool, this article comes of little surprise. The ease with which Blackpool council castigate and humiliate the elderly, the ill-educated and the vulnerable is better than legend. There is something drastically wrong within the system if vulnerable people are harangued in the way they are, while insiders hide their evil duplicity under a welter of needless accusations against innocent residents. £6000.000 tells the truth. The mass majority of council workers are conscientious and honest individuals. This situation can only arise because the average, decent employee cannot use their common sense. They are hen-pecked with stupid regulations and abeyance of political correctness. If the top hierarchy of the Finance Department were really held accountable and dismissed, the position replaced by a competent clerk on a reasonable salary, then the problem would be solved
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POPSTaxation: Our Rulers Carnival Of Theft And Plunder But there is a case to be made for a kind of windfall profits tax: A tax on windfall political profits is indeed desirable. Our rulers cannot legally take home personally more than a minor share (in salary and perks) of the income they steal from us through taxation. But they "profit" from taxes nevertheless by using billions and billions of dollars to buy votes from various political constituencies in order to perpetuate their political careers. Then, in many cases, after spending years in Congress giving away our hard-earned dollars to various undeserving individuals and groups, they retire to earn large salaries from those very groups or to become lobbyists for the groups and use their political connections to keep this carnival of theft and plunder going. That is how our rulers profit personally from tax revenue.
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POPSCongressman Alcee Hastings Pays Big Money to Republican Brain Donor WOW ! January to March 2008 (that's 3 months folks) and Republican Art Kennedy gets a cool $40K for working with (or more aptly stated, being the "Brains" behind) DEM Congressman Hastings mouth? Fiscal Year 2007 subtotal dollars for Art Kennedy is an astounding $160,000.00 (man-oh-man), that's almost the salary of a Congressman! Not bad Art Kennedy ! Not bad for a Re-thug-lican like you who is in all likelyhood doing his darndest best to undermine the Democratic Party through Hastings' Office. Let's all remember Hastings' recent attack against the DNC...his own Party, and then wonder who might have master-minded it ! Anyone care to guess?
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POPSThe Parliamentary upholder of RIGHTS A report well worth reading. If you have an ardent Nu Lieber friend, print off the report and give it to them. Then sit back and gloat as they squirm, whine, prattle and lie to you.
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POPSHey Pal, Can You Spare $100 Billion? Since then the shelves of many shops and supermarkets have been largely bare, except when owners are prepared to risk being caught charging prices that reflect the cost of importing goods from South Africa. Huge queues form outside any bakery selling bread at a controlled price, and demand far outstrips supply.
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POPSVirtual Ant Farm for your Desktop The Ant's Life Studio from Bandai in Japan is a virtual interactive ant farm for your desktop. It let's you create colonies of ants who build, create, maintain and survive in 100 different types of nests.
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POPSThe Pigs are getting more secretive. When pensioners have to declare every part of a penny so that they can get their paid for pensions, if a politician who is being paid out of pensioners savings cannot honestly declare their expenses, no messing about, slam them in Parkhurst.
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POPSObama's "Equal Pay" For Women [Not So Much] The average pay for the 33 men on Obama's staff (who earned more than $23,000, the lowest annual salary paid for non-intern employees) was $59,207. The average pay for the 31 women on Obama's staff who earned more than $23,000 per year was $48,729.91. (The average pay for all 36 male employees on Obama's staff was $55,962; and the average pay for all 31 female employees was $48,729. The report indicated that Obama had only one paid intern during the period, who was a male.)
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POPSoil wars! Will oil be the new bludgeon against the democrats? If so, the repubs are turned out to be a pretty cagey, if deplorable, lot.
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POPSIT Staff Abuse Privelages 1/3 of all IT staff abuse the privelage of being able to access things they aren't supposed to access such as board minutes, personal emails, salary details, and other things not relevant to there jobs. This is why IT administrators should rename (or if possible disable) the Administrator or Root account on the machine, and then make it so that they are the only ones allowed into it if necessary (if not disabled).
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