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- From: jovanovic-nick@cs.yale.edu (Nick Jovanovic)
- Newsgroups: ne.politics
- Subject: Re: Ignorance - Was Re: VOTE, BABY, VOTE!
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 12:32:38 -0500
- Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
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- >Let's not try to pick apart logic, and twist reality! Just look at the salary
- >that YOUR state represenatives are making ... $75,000 is TOO MUCH for, what
- >is for many of them, a part-time job. Look at their voting records! How many
- >no-shows are there? Come on! Pay me that kind of money for doing next-to
- >nothing, and I would at least make sure I showed up to vote ... And why should
- >these people have their own bank, post office, etc. Who the %$#$#^** are they?
- >Let them use the same facilities that everyone else has to use! The pay and
- >the perks are WAY TOO MUCH!
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- If you showed the same disgust for corporate waste, then I might agree with
- you. Almost every bank I go into has fancy wood paneling, luxury furniture,
- and fancy wallpaper, etc. Most corporate headquarters I have visited are
- like palaces, on the outside and on the inside. Most top executives give
- themselves unbelievable perqs, such as limos with chauffers, or even private
- jets and helicopters.
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- Who do you think pays for all of this luxury? Consumers do. You and I.
- It's amazingly like taxes (esp. sales tax). Since most big companies have
- these practices (and even lots of small ones have them!), it is not easy
- to just choose not to buy their products. My perception is that there is
- much more waste in the private sector than in government. How much does
- your bank's president make?
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- -Nick Jovanovic
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