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- From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
- Subject: Re: Ignorance - Was Re: VOTE, BABY, VOTE!
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- Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
- References: <BxoDHA.Cp@apollo.hp.com> <BxoFKG.6DE@world.std.com> <1992Nov16.214410.11160@spectrum.xerox.com> <1ebabmINNhp1@SUNED.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:37:32 GMT
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- jovanovic-nick@cs.yale.edu (Nick Jovanovic) writes:
-
- >> ........... 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!
-
- >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.
-
- >-Nick Jovanovic
- >
-
-
- It is pretty obvious that neither of you have expended much thought on these
- issues. The expenses and difficulties of running for and holding public
- office are such that $75k per year does not even put a dent in it. Many
- legislators go deeply into debt borrowing money to run a campaign and God
- help them if they lose and still need contributions!! (remember there is
- usually at least one loser) They have to put up with every news hound and
- busybody sniffing around their finances and personal lives. Frankly I would
- not do it. Yes SOME of them are greedy , unscupulous and power hungry, but
- most are dedicated to their ideals , they are human beings and are subject to
- the ordinary weaknesses, but they have goals that they aim for and good
- works that they do.
-
- As for the corporate thing: Would YOU choose a bank that was sparsely furnished
- and in a store front location?? Be real! As for the perqs... I have used
- both helicopters and limos when the situation required it and none of those
- situations were hedonistic. Typically the helicopter is for those occasions
- when I have a morning flight to Tokyo (back 3 days later) and I need to be
- at a customer's site to wrap up some project. I work straight through the
- night , catch the chopper to the airport at 7, land in Tokyo at 5pm the
- next day.... etc. Most of those who get these perqs get them because they
- make sense for business reasons, when they don't make sense then the stock
- holders don't allow it.
-
- Do people abuse their perqs, are some legislators corrupt... of course! Just
- not the majority of either.
-
- Charlie
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