Well said Joe.
It seems that we (UK) do indeed share a "special relationship" with the USA - self same problems here!
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On 14 Dec 2009, at 15:56, Joe Fjelstad wrote:
> 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.
> Continues on line
>
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