It seems that the tension between government and technology on RoHS is
similar to the difference between a mechanical engineer and a civil engineer
as was explained to me some years ago. The mechanical engineer builds
weapons and the civil engineer build targets...
Some sage also suggested once that government's mess things up on purpose
to keep those not in government busy fixing things so that they don't
notice all of the shenanigans the government is pulling off in the background.
Don't know if the story is the same across the various ponds relative to
the article below but this might be one of the reasons. Note that the fellow
complaining below is a first term representative. Wonder how long the
system will take to corrupt him...
December 11th 2009
For feds, more get 6-figure salaries
Average pay $30,000 over private sector
By Dennis Cauchon
USA TODAY
The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded
during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data.
Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to
19% of civil servants during the recession's first 18 months — and that's
before overtime pay and bonuses are counted.
Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring
— during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector.
The highest-paid federal employees are doing best of all on salary
increases. Defense Department civilian employees earning $150,000 or more increased
from 1,868 in December 2007 to 10,100 in June 2009, the most recent figure
available.
When the recession started, the Transportation Department had only one
person earning a salary of $170,000 or more. Eighteen months later, 1,690
employees had salaries above $170,000.
The trend to six-figure salaries is occurring throughout the federal
government, in agencies big and small, high-tech and low-tech. The primary
cause: substantial pay raises and new salary rules.
"There's no way to justify this to the American people. It's ridiculous,"
says Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, a first-term lawmaker who is on the
House's federal workforce subcommittee.
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