Comments on: How Is The Oink Sector Holding Up?

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:50:09 +0000

1. I am in no way implying that feds deserve above market compensation but Cato and WSJ are looking at a manicure for a cancer patient. Whether the VA nurse earns $ 48,920 and the nurse at the Catholic hospital earns $ 37,750 is minor compared to the issue of WHY should the government be in the hospital business in the first place (or ANY powers unauthorized by Article 1 Section 8)??

2. Similarly, hiring some schnook GS-7 with a C- GPA from an on-line university to supervise the purchase of a $6 Billion submarine that we don’t need is no panacea.

3. McClintock is a rare good guy and I rooted for him against RINO Ahhnold in 2003.

4. Bob – selling all stock is as viable as emigrating from America. The sad truth is that most Fortune 500 companies are controlled by union pension funds and Soroses who vote their block stock, they hire affirmative action MBA’s like Carly Fiorina and Stanley O’Neal who learn how to mismanage companies and set up personal fiefdoms at the hands of socialistic professors like Krugman and Samuelson. Regrettably, the one engine of economic growth (business) is being destroyed by the socialists.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:59:36 +0000

Myron, you know you can sell your stock, right?

By: Roy Bleckert

Roy Bleckert — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:02:32 +0000

Tom McClintock eloquently suggests to Republicans not to screw it up this time

http://www.flashreport.org/featured-columns-library0b.php?faID=2010111020413874

By: james huggins

james huggins — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:57:38 +0000

The pols learned early on that as the government bloated and bloated beyond control that they became a huge voting block. Now, they are overpaid and underworked to retain the votes. Any politician who tries to remedy the situation will be trying to swim uphill. Civil servants are much like seagulls. They eat, they sleep, they reproduce and they’re protected by the government.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 05:01:50 +0000

(1) The “explosion” at $150,000 region is misleading since the top of the “civilian” pay and “executive” pay was right there and 3% accumulated raises on a steeply falling edge took thousands into the new category.

(2) While the Republicans are targeting the civilians, how about Air Force “clerks” who get to “retire” at age 43 and draw a full pension for their next 40 years?

(3) Besides retirement perks, you also have “retired” ex-military Blackwater types who get paid $300,000 to do the job that some uniformed grunt is getting $25,000 to do.

(4) Add in the lobbyists, “lawyers” (most performing governmental-defined make-work), “consultants”, and all the pseudo-feds like Fannie, Freddie, and Sallie.

(5) Add in the banksters, the General Motors, and the Bailout Mob.

(6) Then you have the “University” administrators and overpaid tenured deadweights that assign all the teaching duties to English-impared Nguyen Tran working for $2000/course as an “adjunct”.

(7) Just as VOTERS are hopeless to reign in old porky, private sector STOCKHOLDERS are equally hopeless to reign in executives (like O’ Neal at Merrill Lynch) siphoning hundreds of millions running their companies aground.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/oct/30/6

IT IS TRULY A VERY LARGE PIG – OINK RULES!