Apparently he is going after bankers and bonuses. Fox is pointing out how many people in the Transportation office alone are making over $100,000, pointing out that the government is not very sensitive to the economic difficulties most Americans are facing, either.
I didn’t think a whole lot of Tim Russert. We use to joke about his frowny face when he interviewed conservatives.
But I must say in terms of substance, he was miles ahead of Gregory who is completely sophmoric and obvious in his biases. His questions are little more than DNC talking points and his delivery is childish.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406168/posts
Obama slams ‘fat cat bankers’ (Upcoming “60 Minutes”)
AFP ^ | December 12, 2009
WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama has hit out at Wall Street “fat cats”, expressing anger that banks bailed out by the government plan huge bonuses while millions of Americans battle poverty and unemployment.
“I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street,” Obama said Friday in excerpts of an interview with CBS television to be aired on Sunday.
With unemployment still hovering at around 10 percent, amid a recession triggered in part by the excesses of financial institutions, Obama voiced frustration that “some people on Wall Street still don’t get it.”
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Obama’s Big Wall Street Sellout
Rolling Stone ^ | Dec. 10, 2009
Nothing more than your unionized govt. workers doing what govt. does best--destroying free enterprise.
Fox is pointing out how many people in the Transportation office alone are making over $100,000
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Glenn Beck had that on the show Friday. The head
of the transportation dept got a pay raise to $170,000. Thereafter, 1700 additional people in his dept. all got similar raises to that amount.
Average govt salary is $71,206, and the only sector
that’s adding notable job numbers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIkOzYjtPqc&feature=player_embedded
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Six-Figure Federal Salary Gravy Train
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/12/six-figure-federal-salary-gravy-train.html
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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 growth in six-figure salaries has pushed the average federal worker’s pay to $71,206, compared with $40,331 in the private sector.
How the $!!! can the department of transportation possibly justify 1,690 workers making in excess of $170,000?
The Federal Aviation Administration also has 1,700 workers making in excess of $170,000.
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In my estimation, this is being purposely done to create
enlarged vested govt control ... more loyal bureaucrats
to monitor us and enforcers to keep the populace in line
and regimented. Might as well call him Hugo O.